The Sweatshop Pepper Farm

04/09/2026

Finally, after a long winter, the Downtown Farmer's Market starts up on the first Saturday of May! Come out and get our newest hybrid pepper, spicy blends, old favorites, and chips! 🌶🔥☺️

09/12/2025

Tomorrow is our last day at The Downtown Farmer's Market for the season so we will be introducing our brand new hybrid CRYANN (cayenne + reaper cross)! We will have this in powder form, as well as our Cherry Creaper (Cherry Tomato + Carolina Reaper) for the first time in powder form! Come down and see us one more time until next year 🌶🔥

08/20/2025

GUYS, IT'S FINALLY BLACK WALNUT SEASON!!! 🤩🤩🤩 Just like spices, the processing method is the difference between perfectly preserved bites of heaven absolutely bursting with deliciousness and sad, grey dust. I'm still perfecting my method, but 1/3 of this batch is halves and I got 3 holy grail *whole* ones! The other 2/3 are all plump, delightful quarters and ai cannot wait to do mooooore!!!

08/18/2025

Farm tips from The Sweatshop: do not forget your hair covering when you're going to woods grocery shopping or you will have free cleavers added to your shopping cart.

08/15/2025

We've been surprised by how many people ask where we get the ingredients for our spices, because we grow them right here in Iowa! ...the "we" is just Celestino, Charlie, the meager tools we have on hand, and an overgrown grit. My favorite tools are my great grandfather's sickles, which were instrumental in trimming around our baby one year old plants this year! 🧡

08/06/2025

Here's a signature hybrid pepper that we here at The Sweatshop Pepper Farm created and affectionately named Cherry Creaper! It is a cross between a sweet cherry tomato and a Carolina Reaper pepper. It gives you all the beautiful front end of the sweet tomato flavor until the butt kicking heat of the Reaper creeps in! Capsaicin (heat) levels hover slightly above ghost peppers. It goes great in chili, pico de gallo, simmered in ANY red sauce, curry, or anything that is tomato-based. We have a limited quantity of this pepper in powdered form so contact us if you would like to experience this unique and brand new pepper adventure while supplies last!

08/02/2025

A new friend came to our booth this morning! Celestino helped him find his way: thanks for visiting, little traveler!

05/24/2025

Come down to the Downtown Farmer's Market and try our new collab with Psycho Sweets CHERRY BOMBS! White truffle chocolate combined with our Tart Cherry Habañero powder 🔥 We are both here til noon!

02/10/2025

MarketMaker Business Feature: The Sweatshop Pepper Farm

Hot Damn!.......Or is it Damn Hot? Celestino and Charlie Ramirez are the owners of The Sweatshop Pepper Farm, growing specialty hybrids peppers. With Celestino’s sophisticated capsaicin palate for unbeatable heat and Charlie’s biochemist background they have developed some wacky hybrids that bring both incredible flavor and “teeth-liquifying” heat!

Read more at: https://bit.ly/3CrNIwy

02/10/2025