> Just grow your own How’s that houseplant doing? > or buy from a farmer's market. I love to ferment my own hot sauces so I am always on the lookout for new

> Just grow your own How’s that houseplant doing? > or buy from a farmer's market. I love to ferment my own hot sauces so I am always on the lookout for new varieties of extremely hot peppers. There is one, one!, pepperhead in the Bay Area farmers markets. You only hear hushed whispers of him at the other markets, but through a various sequence of flatteries and bribes you will be lead to him at the Clement Street farmer’s market on Sundays. (as of 2024) Jamil at Raised Roots makes some of the most delicious fermented hot sauces made with only the showcase pepper, salt, water and garlic. I wish I could give him some traffic but it seems his web presence is a bit outdated, so if you’re in the area check out the scorpion and fatalii. They are absolutely delicious. As I understand it it’s an “urban farm” so it has multiple plots around the city of Oakland. Meaning the peppers are grown outside, meaning they are seasonal. So raised roots only sells peppers at harvest in November, but you can get the sauce all year round. That’s the state of wanting hot peppers living in San Francisco.