Community
Urban Farm vs. Community Garden: What’s the difference?
When thinking about gardening and farming, images of inner city Detroit, South Central Los Angeles or the Bronx...
Brooklyn Derby featuring The Bronx Hot Sauce
Every heard of the Brooklyn Derby? No, not the Kentucky Derby. The Brooklyn Derby. Well, our guy Teddy...
A Bronx Bloody Mary featuring Small Axe Peppers
Ah yes, nothing like a well-mixed Bloody Mary. You know, the kind with that gets it just right...
A Letter to Our Garden Partners…
Dear fellow Community Garden Pepper Producers, Thank you so much for participating in the Small Axe Peppers /...
Localish Presents: It’s Hot Sauce with a Cause
ABC’s Localish is all about bringing out the good in America’s cities. Good food. Good people. Good living....
Hot Sauce Festivals You Can’t Miss This Summer
After attending our fair share of food festivals over the past few years, we have learned to appreciate...
Small Axe’s Mango Habanero Cheeseball
Looking for that perfect appetizer to serve at your next late spring get together? We were too. However,...
The Benefits of Eating Local Produce
It doesn’t take a genius to seee that eating local produce has implicit benefits. However, that doesn’t mean...
Enjoy this sizzling Cinco De Mayo recipe
How about a Cinco de Mayo recipe? After all, what kind of hot sauce company would Small Axe...
7 Community Gardens Making the Bronx Green Again
Though community gardens and urban farms may be filling in empty lots across the country, no city has...
How to Grow Serrano Peppers
Serrano Peppers: You’ve heard of them, you’ve tried them but how much do you really know about them?...
Ignite your Easter Weekend with this Spiced Carrot Margarita
Easter weekend is approaching which means you soon may find yourself surrounded by in-laws, conversing about the weather,...
What’re your favorite celebrities saying about Small Axe Peppers?
Small Axe Peppers started in 2015 as local project aimed at finding ways to create delicious, locally-sourced hot...
The Best Oyster Po’ Boy Outside the Big Easy
Doesn’t matter if they’re fried, baked stuffed, raw, or made into a sandwich, oysters just about always hit...
The Friends of Van Cortlandt Park Compost Site and Garden pt. II
In our last post about “Van Cortlandt Park”, we introduced The Friends of Van Cortlandt Park Compost Site...
Van Cortlandt Park
With 1,146-acres sitting atop the ridges and valleys of the northwest Bronx, Van Cortlandt Park — is New York...
The Guerrilla Gardeners of Smiling Hogshead Ranch
In 2011, a group neighbors looking to improve their community, created a “guerrilla garden” on a set of...
A St. Patty’s Day Cocktail with a Punch
This Sunday, March 17th, we’ll all come together to drink some pints and celebrate one of the most...
Rivers Run Community Garden
Co-op City is a cooperative housing development located in the East Bronx that emerged as a result of the Mitchell-Lama Housing Program....
New Roots Community Farm
New Roots Community Farm is a half-care, urban farm associated with International Rescue Committee. The New Roots program,...
Morning Glory Community Garden
Morning Glory Community Garden is a GreenThumb community garden located in the Crotona Park East neighborhood of the South...
Facebook and Small Axe Peppers
Urban Farming Activism: Lehman College Garden
Located on a tree-lined 37-acre campus, right in the middle of the Bronx, Lehman College has proved to...
Urban Farming Activism: La Finca Del Sur
To date, Small Axe has bought almost 8,000 pounds of peppers at a premium price from community gardens...
A Spicy Chinese New Year
Chinese culture is amongst the oldest in the world . While we’ll be celebrating America’s 243rd birthday in...
Small Axe Peppers believe in Community as both a noun and a verb
The whole premise of Small Axe Peppers is working together, we can swing our small axe to chop...