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Iowa Pepper Co.

We grow hot peppers and make small-batch hot sauce. All natural, fresh, pepper-forward flavor!

06/04/2026

All love, no heat. Sauce for Everyone is back!! 🤩🏳️‍🌈

It’s been two years since our last batch! After a poor Habanada harvest a couple of seasons ago, we weren’t able to make this sauce last year. So we planted a more, had a great harvest, and now it’s finally back.

Made with Habanada peppers, this sauce delivers all the fruity, floral flavor of a habanero with none of the heat. Expect big garlic and lime flavor with a bright, citrusy finish. It’s great on tacos, pizza, fish, wings, or a summer salad.

Iowa is our home, and it’s where we grow our peppers. We created this sauce to show our support for the LGBTQ+ community, and throughout Pride Month, we’ll donate $1 from every bottle sold to Historic Valley Junction Pride – happening June 28!

Find us at the Valley Junction Farmers Market NEXT Thursday (June 11) to try some.

Order online here:
https://www.iowapepper.co/products/sauce-for-everyone-no-heat

06/01/2026

May 2026 photo dump 🔥

Whew! May is always a whirlwind between markets, making sauce, and getting everything planted for the season.

We Kicked off the season and farmers market. Always a great time to see familiar faces and meet new ones!

We planted 150 peppers in our backyard, and planted 350 at We are happy to be all planted for the season.

COMING UP IN JUNE:
Sauce for Everyone is BACK!!! 🏳️‍🌈
Jeff is making a fresh batch this week and we’ll have it available at farmers market every Thursday this month to celebrate pride!

Lastly, you can find us at on June 13 and June 28 this month!

✌️
Jeff and Caitlin

05/22/2026

We’re so ready for this three day weekend! Come see us at Saturday morning. ☀️

We will have a wide variety of super hot pepper plants along with free samples of our most popular sauces and dry spices.

See ya there ✌️

05/21/2026

Come on down to today and on Saturday to get some unique super hot pepper plants!

* peach Jellyfish
* chocolate bubblegum ghost
* RB003
* dragon breathe
* T-Rex Yellow
* 7 pot bubblegum red
* purple peach sbagliato reaper
* white ghost
* fatalii
* red primotalii
* peach miasma
* orange trinidad scorpion
* purple gator jigsaw
* MA Wartrx
* big yellow mama

05/13/2026

🔥THIS WEEK🔥

Thursday: Farmers Market 4-8pm.
We’ll have Habanadas, bell peppers, jalafuego, red savina habanero, and Carolina reapers.

This weekend we’ll be planting our backyard pepper garden, so next week (May 21) at Valley Junction we’ll bring our leftover super hots.

We’ll be back at the next weekend on May 23!

05/03/2026

What a great day at the first of the season! A little chilly, but hot coffee from and kept us warm! 🔥

We’ll be back downtown next Sunday, and then every other weekend throughout the summer.

➡️Find out our full schedule on our website:
www.iowapepperco.com/markets

Find us at THIS THURSDAY! 🌱🌶️

04/29/2026

WE’RE BACK!!! 🤸🚀🔥

Opening weekend of the Des Moines' Downtown Farmers' Market THIS SATURDAY!!

Originally we had planned to bring pepper plants to this first market, but they need a little more time inside. We will have pepper plants at the first Valley Junction Farmers Market on May 7, and at the downtown market on May 9.

It’s gonna be a fun month!!

02/13/2026

‼️📦ONLINE ORDERING UPDATE📦‼️

Next Friday, February 20, we’ll be shutting down our website for about a month while we restock. We’re running low on sauce, so make sure to get your orders in before then! 🌶️🔥

We’ll be back online March 20 and we’re hoping to know our market schedule by then as well!

As always, free shipping on 3+ bottles and free local delivery within DSM.

Www.iowapepperco.com

Enjoy the warm weekend! 🔥

01/10/2026

Reflecting on this past year. 🔥

At the beginning of the year, we had to make a difficult decision. We had reached a point where Iowa Pepper Co. was becoming too much to manage alongside our full-time jobs. It came down to two options. Stop altogether, or take the leap and have Jeff quit his full-time job to go all in on IPC. In February, we decided to take that leap.

Jeff left his corporate job and spent this past year making sauce and growing peppers full-time. Because of that, we’ve had our best year yet.

We’ve seen so much growth this year, and we truly could not do it without the support of our amazing community. As we grow, we are being extremely intentional about how we grow. We are working primarily with local growers, and we plan to continue doing that. That is our mission. Let’s get more produce grown in Iowa.

We are so incredibly grateful for our partnership with Mariah at , and we’re looking forward to growing even more together this year.

This year, we also worked with more local Iowa businesses, including , who absolutely crushed our first merch drop. , where we source our bell peppers and onions. And , where we collaborated on a spicy cider and sour beer.

All that to say, THANK YOU for the best year yet. We’re excited to see where this goes!

Cheers to 2026,
Jeff and Caitlin

12/20/2025

We’re at and we finally got to try our collab sour beer with them!! This beer was made with super hot peppers from our backyard garden. It’s so good. You can smell and taste that distinctive super hot pepper flavor. Great job ! Come by the taproom to try it. 🔥🔥🔥

Tellurian Brewing

And we’re in the taproom with sauce samples til 6pm!! Also, wear your ugly sweater tonight. 🎄

Cheers! 🍻

Address

Des Moines, IA
50301-50340-50310

Website

https://www.iowapepper.co/

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