Freshly harvested red and green habaneros being sorted by hand
Habanero · Yucatán Peninsula

Real chili is grown, not made.

Fruity. Floral. Then the fire.

I want first taste

First harvest is in. First sauce is coming. The list tastes it first.

The land, the hands.

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Red earthApril
Red earthMoved by hand, one wheelbarrow at a time.
The bedsMay
The bedsOne mound for every plant. Limestone soil. It makes the flavor.
8,000 plants arrive26 May
8,000 plants arriveOn a truck, at dawn.
One hand, 8,000 times26 May
One hand, 8,000 timesEvery plant goes into the ground by hand.
The rowsJune
The rowsSun through the net. Water from our own well. Day after day.
The first fruitAugust
The first fruitGreen, then orange, then fire.
The first cutAugust
The first cutSorted by hand, the same morning.
Sorting the harvest under the tarpAugust
Green here, red thereEvery fruit passes through a hand before it leaves.
Sammy, on the landThe partner
Sammy, on the landBelieved first. Put his own money in the ground.

Everything, in our hands.

No factory, no middleman, no mystery. The seed, the soil, the cut, the sort, the sauce — the same hands, the same land, all the way to your table.

8,000plants
3,150m² sun-net
1,076kg first cut
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K'iin · the sun, the day

The calendar of the cycle.

Twenty day-names turn around the wheel, as in the Maya count. The pointer marks today.

K'iin · day—
—of the cycle

Counted since the day these plants touched the ground. It ticks every sunrise.

First Harvest List

Taste it before anyone.

The sauce isn't made yet. First tastings: summer 2027 — the list tastes it first, before any shelf. First the honey. Then the sauce.

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Sammy at the farm
Sammy · Montréal

Believed first and put his own money in the ground. His partner runs the farm day by day from behind the camera — for now. On the land, a small crew plants, cuts and sorts every fruit by hand.

New from the field every Wednesday.

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