Farm-Fermented Hot Sauce, Grown & Bottled in the Sierra Nevada Foothills
Small-batch sauce from a forest-edge farm in West Point, California. We grow the peppers, ferment them in small batches, and bottle them here — at 3,000 feet in Calaveras County. Now in our 8th farmers market season.
Farm-fermented Grown at 3,000 ft Find us at the market
From the Foothills
From foothill soil to the bottle on your table
The whole journey happens on five acres. Here’s the short version.
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Sierra foothills
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Beds among the trees
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Pepper plants
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Harvest crates
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Fermentation
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Bottled here
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Market table
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To market, pickup, or shipment
The 2026 Lineup
Five sauces. Pick your heat.
All grown and fermented on the farm. Medium to hot — there’s a bottle here for every table.
Heat Scale
How hot are we talking?
A simple 1–5 scale. Find your bottle.
Garlic ChiliMedium
ChipotleMedium
Sierra VerdeMedium
HabaneroHot
Sierra SrirachaHot
What “Farm-Fermented” Means
Most hot sauce is cooked. Ours is alive.
Most hot sauce — even the craft stuff — is peppers and vinegar, cooked and bottled. We grow the peppers, ferment them slow in small batches, and bottle them here. That’s where the flavor comes from.
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Grow
Peppers grown on our five acres at 3,000 ft, among the pines at the edge of the forest.
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Ferment
Small batches, fermented the slow way — like a sourdough or a good kraut — for real, layered flavor.
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Bottle
Blended, balanced, and bottled right here in West Point. No filler, no shortcuts.
Forest-Edge Farming
Grown where the forest meets the farm
We farm five acres in West Point, in the Calaveras County foothills of the Sierra Nevada — high, dry, sunny country at the edge of the pines. Real seasons, real sun, and peppers that taste like where they’re from. The mountain and the forest aren’t a backdrop. They’re part of the sauce.
3,000 ft
Elevation
5 acres
Grown & bottled here
8th season
At the farmers market
Find Us This Week
We sell most of our sauce face-to-face
Same sauce, same prices, no shipping — and you get to say hi.
NEXT MARKET
Murphys Park Farmers Market
Sundays · 9 a.m.–1 p.m.
May 24–October 25, 2026.
West Point Farmers Market
Tuesdays · 4–7 p.m.
June 16–October 27, 2026.
Field Notes
Recipes, harvest updates & life on the farm
Recipes
5 Ways to Use Garlic Chili (Beyond Eggs)
The everyday bottle, put to work all over the kitchen.
Recipes
5 Ways to Use Sierra Sriracha (Beyond Noodles)
The hot bottle that reads like a label, put to work all week.
Field Notes
How Sierra Verde Got Its Name
The name’s just the address — 3,000 feet up in the foothills.
The Harvest List
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No sign-up software here — your email goes straight to Josh & Zach and we add you by hand. Say the word any time and we’ll take you off the list.