https://smallaxepeppers.com/ to support our partner community gardens. Shop TODAY senior SEO editor Jess Bender has a knack for hot sauce, and this is one that she always keeps in her pantry. The brand, Small Axe Peppers, utilizes ingredients from community gardens and urban farms across the United States — and each sauce is given a name inspired by the city from which the ingredients hail from. Heat levels range from medium to spicy hot, and Bender's favorites are Bronx Green and The Detroit.
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#Community, #environment & #home are more than hashtags to Small Axe Peppers and Ilegal Mezcal. Both are a featured presence at Forest Hills Stadium, which is where they were first brought together as ingredients in The Stadium’s signature spicy margarita. However, shortly after their collaboration began, Small Axe Peppers and Ilegal Mezcal realized they shared more than just a glass, but a similar ethos and vision for how their companies work with the people and land they call home. Small Axe Peppers and Ilegal Mezcal have worked together to bring you “Community in a Glass”, combining two ingredients that only exist by working with communities to strengthen and enhance their critical role in making the world a better place, for all of us. Community in a Glass Ingredients: - 1.5oz Mezcal (Blanco and Reposado Mezcal) - 3/4 oz. Lime Juice - 3/4 oz. Agave - Splash of Orange Juice - 1/4 oz Small Axe Peppers Hot Sauce - Spicy Salt Rim Try it out and be sure to tag us in your #CommunityInAGlass creations!
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While crews at Forest Hills Stadium prepared for the next concert of their 2022 season, backstage something is growing. They are peppers to be used to make hot sauce. “They should get two or three harvests from these plants, in August, maybe early September and then in late September,” Small Axe Peppers Co-Founder, John Crotty, said. Small Axe Peppers are being grown backstage at Forest Hills Stadium and the hot sauce will be used in food and drinks at the venue this summer It’s an onsite community garden grown from pepper seeds provided by Small Axe Peppers Hot Sauce. It started in the Bronx in 2014 with a goal of connecting people to the community gardens and urban farms in their neighborhoods. The program expanded to Queens and now it’s in over 120 gardens in 23 states. Small Axe donates the seeds and buys back the peppers at premium prices. “There’s a bigger picture involved here, it’s very aspirational and it’s been a very positive message,” Crotty said. Small Axe Peppers is the official hot sauce in residence at the nearly 100-year-old concert venue and onetime home of the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament. Appropriately, the parties were brought together through music, in the form of New York-based band AJR, who played the stadium in May. “We were just lucky enough to get this nice little sliver of land, it’s got great sun and good soil and we’ve been able to convert it into our own version of a community garden,” Jason Brandt, general manager of the stadium, said. Visitors can experience the hot sauce at participating food vendors and, if 21 plus, in drinks like spicy margaritas and Palomas. Small Axe also has its own booth where folks can find out more about the peppers and the growing program. “It’s been a great way to really talk about what we are doing, and help bring that sense of community to everyone that comes in here,” Crotty said.
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“Small Axe Peppers” derives it named from the proverb that says, “if you are the big tree we are the Small Axe:. Behind each bottle of hot sauce there are countless people who make an outsized impact on their communities every day. This “#IAmSmallAxe” video highlights just some of the people we buy peppers from. From Ray at Brook Park, who runs an alternative to incarceration program in The Bronx, New York to Elizabeth who works with many diverse groups at La Madeira Community Garden in California. From Michael at YMEN who teaches urban agriculture skills to at-risk young people on Chicago’s West Side to Riley and Carol who work in restorative justice in Mobile Alabama to Susan, who grows fresh and healthy vegetables in Kentucky. These are just some of the faces of Small Axe Peppers. Our hot sauce has been sourced from 122 partner gardens in 42 cities over the last 6 years. The flavor in each bottle reflects the love and care all these community gardeners put into everything they do. Join us in supporting all of their work and swing your own small axe! #smallaxe #iamsmallaxe #heatthathelps #wenoti #ediblegarden #urbangarden #organicgardening #farm365 #gardeners #gardenlovers #love #instagood #repost #fitness #family #entrepreneur #motivation #support #inspiration #spicy #foodporn #sauce #foodie #food #spicyfood #centranodistribution #bbq #hotones #growyourown #urbangardenersrepublic
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When you hear the word gazpacho, one typically thinks of tomatoes, but this is a green version with zero tomatoes! Sunny Anderson, who is currently hosting the Food Network's "Spring Baking Championship: Easter" makes it with grilled zucchini, tomatillos and scallions blended with cucumbers, garlic, basil and Greek yogurt. The cold soup is light, healthy and refreshing, and a great way to use up all those garden zucchini come summer! Catch Sunny on her newest Food Network show, "Spring Baking Championship: Easter," on Mondays at 10pm EST. And for more recipes by Sunny, check out her 2-Ingredient Puff Pastry Parmesan Breadsticks and German Chocolate Cookies.
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This is a video recording of the March 2nd introductory zoom call between Small Axe Peppers and Community Garden Partners! We discussed who we are, what we do, and why we do it! We also answer some gardener questions about marketing and logistics!
2022 Community Garden Kick Off Zoom Call
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