The Fresh Chile Company Podcast
Welcome to the Fresh Chile Company Podcast - Enchanting Stories of New Mexico. Tune in to listen to all things New Mexico Chile, and other enchanting facts about New Mexico.
The Fresh Chile Company Podcast
Latest Episodes
Enchanting Stories: The Fickle Fate of Hatch Valley chile farmers
My friends, this has been a hard podcast since it involves the good and the bad New Mexico farmers experience in their profession because of many factors, often tied to weather. This year the fickle fate of chile farmers involves a large leaf m...
Enchanting Stories: rules that New Mexico Outlaws obsered
Here is a New Mexico story. While not written down, many Outlaws in New Mexico had rules they followed back in the 1800s. Yes, rules of what to do and not do. Not written down other than writers of that era put them in stories. Eugene Rhodes, i...
Enchanting Stories: New Mexico's dirt roads before pavement
By some estimates there are 150 thousand miles of paved roads in New Mexico and at least 25,000 miles of dirt roads. I grew up early in life firmly on New Mexico dirt roads. While I knew what pavement was, the family ranch south of Carrizozo wa...
Enchanting Stories: Yippee, it is chile harvest time
Every year come that magical moment when we say, “Yippee, it is Hatch Valley chile harvest time.” The roasters at The Fresh Chile Company are roasting away at the daily harvest from the Hatch Valley growing fields which are picked, loaded and b...
Enchanting Stories: 110 years of making chile better
This seems odd; it might even change how you look at agricultural research. Over 110 years, thousands of agricultural researchers have worked each year on making New Mexico chile better. Not the best, but better each year. Fabian Garcia who is ...