How Hot Do You Like It? Hot Peppers For Hot Weather
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Series: Earth Eats: Real Food, Green Living
Length: 29:00
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"They live in a firehouse 24/7, so they eat their meals here. If they want to make a salsa or any kind of chili, they’ve got fresh vegetables and they don’t have to go to the store to get them. They’ve got them right outside their backdoor."
That’s Roger Kerr, Chief of the City of Bloomington Fire Department. Thanks to the two raised garden beds in the station’s side yard, the firefighters have been using the freshest of produce to make salsa and chilies. We speak with Kerr and the mastermind behind this pop-up garden Ferrol Johnson later in the program.
We’ve got hot food and peppers on the brain today. Chef Daniel Orr makes a pickled pepper relish, and he visits with a local chile farmer to learn about some of the lesser known varieties of chiles she grows.
And before that, we get an update on how the drought is affecting farmers in the Arkansas River basin from Harvest Public Media.
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"They live in a firehouse 24/7, so they eat their meals here. If they want to make a salsa or any kind of chili, they’ve got fresh vegetables and they don’t have to go to the store to get them. They’ve got them right outside their backdoor."
That’s Roger Kerr, Chief of the City of Bloomington Fire Department. Thanks to the two raised garden beds in the station’s side yard, the firefighters have been using the freshest of produce to make salsa and chilies. We speak with Kerr and the mastermind behind this pop-up garden Ferrol Johnson later in the program.
We’ve got hot food and peppers on the brain today. Chef Daniel Orr makes a pickled pepper relish, and he visits with a local chile farmer to learn about some of the lesser known varieties of chiles she grows.
And before that, we get an update on how the drought is affecting farmers in the Arkansas River basin from Harvest Public Media.
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