Fire Tongue Farms

Fire Tongue Farms Fire Tongue Farms is an organic pepper farm in Hollister, CA. We specialize in organic smoked peppers

Buy our peppers at www.firetonguefarms.etsy.com

Fire Tongue Farm is an 8 acre organic pepper farm in Hollister, CA. Our goal is to grow a wide variety of flavorful, nutritious chile peppers for our customers to enjoy fresh and smoked. We are dedicated to maintaining a healthy environment on and around our farmland. We rotate our farmland between grazing sheep and growing peppers. We strive build healthy soil, prevent erosion, protect wildlife h

abitat, and conserve water and other resources on our farm. The Farmers

Fire Tongue Farm started in the winter of 2015 as the convergence of two friends’ ideas. Ryan was working in apple and pear orchards in Watsonville and noticing how much fruit wood was being pruned and burned each year in the fields. Wanting to find a use for all this excess wood, he thought he could grow hot peppers and smoke them with the valuable pear and apple wood from local orchards. At the same time Levon found 8 acres of fallow farm land in Hollister that he wanted to cultivate and was deciding what to grow on his new farm. The two of them were college friends from UC Berkeley where they worked together as food managers for the Berkeley Student Cooperative. After graduating, Ryan studied sustainable agriculture at the UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden while Levon apprenticed at Green String Farm in Petaluma. The two met to catch up and talk about their recent projects and the idea for Fire Tongue Farm was born. We grow a wide variety of the highest quality hot peppers for the Bay Area and Central Coast. We offer fresh and dried peppers, but are obsessed with the art of smoked peppers. We are in constant pursuit of the perfect smoked pepper and refining our techniques to extract rich, smoky, complex flavors from our different pepper varieties through an age old smoking process we have upgraded with a few modern technologies. The key ingredients are always the same though: quality chile peppers harvested at full, red ripeness, cured apple and pear wood smoked at low temperatures, and the hot California sunshine to finish them.

Fired up by having the chance to discuss our love of chilis in this excellent piece by of ! 🌶️🌶️🌶️
08/23/2024

Fired up by having the chance to discuss our love of chilis in this excellent piece by of ! 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Shipping season! The mask hardly helping with the chili fumes 🥵😅
01/31/2023

Shipping season! The mask hardly helping with the chili fumes 🥵😅

Nice to be featured in producer spotlight! Head over to their site to read and to check out their amazing spices! ...
12/01/2022

Nice to be featured in producer spotlight! Head over to their site to read and to check out their amazing spices!

Excited to announce a new partnership with ! Head over to their site to pick up some of our peppers from this year alon...
11/26/2022

Excited to announce a new partnership with ! Head over to their site to pick up some of our peppers from this year along with the tastiest beans around! 🌶🫘

Happy Halloween!
10/31/2022

Happy Halloween!

Its that time of year again! Excited for red jalapeños coming out of the field and soon chipotles coming out of the smok...
10/27/2022

Its that time of year again! Excited for red jalapeños coming out of the field and soon chipotles coming out of the smoker.

We find chilis wherever we travel to. Some recent shots of our trip to farms and markets in Armenia
08/23/2022

We find chilis wherever we travel to. Some recent shots of our trip to farms and markets in Armenia

Green fruit season. A quick peak inside the canopies of some new varieties we’re growing this year
07/26/2022

Green fruit season. A quick peak inside the canopies of some new varieties we’re growing this year

Spring Sale alert! See link in bio for 15% off all of our pepper products!
05/28/2022

Spring Sale alert! See link in bio for 15% off all of our pepper products!

Packing a couple big orders for and Check them out next time you’re looking for a treat. Maybe start a new Mother’s Da...
05/01/2022

Packing a couple big orders for and
Check them out next time you’re looking for a treat. Maybe start a new Mother’s Day tradition!

With hot sauce sometimes less is more. This bottle contains only 7 other ingredients all of which you can pronounce. See...
04/18/2022

With hot sauce sometimes less is more. This bottle contains only 7 other ingredients all of which you can pronounce. See link in bio to grab yours 🌞🌶

It’s here! Our Aleppo Pepper Hot Sauce is now available in our Etsy shop! This is one of our favorite peppers and we lov...
03/22/2022

It’s here! Our Aleppo Pepper Hot Sauce is now available in our Etsy shop! This is one of our favorite peppers and we love how the sauce turned out. Mild enough to appeal to everyone with an amazing depth of flavor. Check out the link in our bio to order yours!

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Santa Cruz, CA
95065

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 10pm
Tuesday 8am - 10pm
Wednesday 8am - 10pm
Thursday 8am - 10pm
Friday 8am - 10pm
Saturday 8am - 9pm
Sunday 8am - 9pm

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