We started off as a small hot-pepper specialty farm in Franklin County, North Carolina, specializing in super-hot peppers like the Ghost pepper and Carolina Reaper.
When we started going to The Downtown Rolesville Farmer’s Market (our home base), we only had dried peppers (it was too early in the season for fresh peppers). We offered samples of unusual culinary uses of peppers, along with recipes, for people to try making their own. Among these was our Dragon Glass cinnamon and Dragon’s Breath candy.
To our surprise, we started getting requests for us to make the candy – it’s a lot of work to do at home! So we listened, and started making not only the Dragon Glass but a collection of other flavors, with different heat levels for everyone to enjoy.
We also learned how to work with chocolate and started producing spicy chocolate treats. Our first efforts were tasty, but still weren’t very refined. After learning more about making quality chocolates, we finally started making some quality mint patties and chocolate bars.
All through this time, we continued to carry our fresh peppers, and dried pepper powders. But although there was interest in the powders, we also had a high demand for spice blends, seasonings, and rubs. Not knowing quite where to start, we just took our own personal recipes for some spice blends that we cook with at home and started packaging those – and people loved them!
And that brings us to where we are today. We now offer a full line of savory spice blends and seasoned salts, and a selection of Sweet Heat hard candies and chocolates for all to enjoy!