Thank you for making our summer release, Pickle Power, a huge success. We are sold out for this summer, but intend on bringing it back next year.
Watch for it’s return early Summer 2021.
You asked for it, so we delivered!
Manna and Decadent Hills are coming to our shop this weekend. They will be joining Mountain Mamma in our non spicy dessert blend line up.
Manna is a spin off of our white chocolate based Heavenly Manna. Decadent Hills is the little sibling of Decadent Mountain with it’s cocoa and cinnamon foundation.
We kept all the delectable ingredients from the original blends,but left out the heat and spice from the pepper powders, so anyone can enjoy these dessert powders.
If you are looking for a new powder or some stocking stuffers, now is the time to get them.
Sometimes you don’t realize who your biggest influencers and loudest cheerleaders are until those voices are no longer audible.
Our newest pepper powder blend is named after a friend and mentor who we never had the opportunity to meet face to face, but was one of our mentors when starting Grown at Home in WV. Rich LaCuesta talked gardening tips and tricks, helped Dave create pepper blends, read flavor profiles and determine how to tell what peppers will taste like once they are dried.
Mail flew back and forth during prime harvest time between Missouri and West Virginia sharing pods and doing videos of taste testing those pods and other products.
Rich was even ready to drive the 9 hours to surprise Dave for his birthday, but circumstances prohibited it at the last minute.
He was a man who loved his family. He always spoke highly of his wife and children and bragged on them and their accomplishments. It was obvious they were a source of great pride in his life.
On January 24, Rich posted a Crimson Chip Challenge video eating 5 of our Crimson Chips.
Unfortunately, it will also be the last.
Rich was killed in a motorcycle accident 3 days later.
We will always regret never meeting, in person, this man who will not know just how much a part of Grown at Home in WV he really was.
Our hearts ache for the family he left behind.
So to honor the memory of Rich LaCuesta, we are resurrecting our original pepper powder. It’s the blend that Dave experimented with and learned to hone his pepper blending skills with.
The LaCuesta blend contains 5 pepper varieties with a habanero and ghost pepper base. It also has one hot and two other super hots.
LaCuesta will be available April 2018. The actual release date will be announced on our Facebook page.
If you want to see Rich’s videos, his You Tube channel is Gardening in Missouri. Some of you may remember him as Banana Man (we actually have a banana tree growing in our house that he sent our son years ago!) His wife has told us, she plans on keeping his YouTube channel so subscribe, like and share his videos.
Together we can keep his memory alive and show his family just how much he was loved and the impact he made on others.
Thanks for being someone we never want to forget, Rich.
Happy Independence Day, America!
Here at Grown at Home in WV, we have taken advantage of our long weekend and been busy cleaning up around our property. We were finally able to get the greenhouse down and the deck cleaned off. Which means all of the plants that were in the greenhouse are now in their homes for the remainder of the summer. Some are in the ground in beds here at our house or in the other two local plots we are using this year. Others are in pots that can be moved around the yard as needed for the rest of the season.
This is Dave’s White Bucket Army!
We have picked a few peppers so far. More should be coming in the near future.
If you or someone you know are interested in fresh pods, like our FaceBook page. That is where we will update daily when and what is available.
We are in the process of upgrading and updating our website! We will still have all of the great information for everything we do pepper related, but because we are a family business and family comes first, we are going to incorporate a little about everything we do on this site.
We are excited to have everything in one place and hope you enjoy the journey with us.
We will have regular posts about everything we do on our little corner of the world pertaining to “Homesteading” and everything we grow and produce whether its successful or an abysmal failure.
We are also going to offer some insight into how we live day to day in our “Homemaking” section. We’ll talk about what we DIY, our go to recipes, some of our favorite products, projects around our house and how we get everything done that we do.
Lastly, we are going to have a section focused on “Homeschool.” We have homeschooled our children since Kindergarten and love all of the benefits of having our children learn everyday right along with us.
So pull up a chair and let’s get to know each other.