Producer Spotlight
Bay Leaves and What the Tariffs Can Teach Us About Climate Change
by Claire Cheney The world is getting hotter, literally and figuratively. The year kicked off with a roller coaster of tariffs disproportionately affecting small U.S. import businesses. In the ten years of running Curio, I've maintained a sense of fierce optimism for the business. Is it enough? Probably not. During...
Producer Spotlight: Firetongue Farms
Words by John Kilfoyle. Photos courtesy of Fire Tongue Farms. Fire Tongue Farms is a chile pepper farm started in Hollister, CA in 2014 with the goal of growing high quality, rare chile pepper varieties for local chefs, hot sauce makers, and spice companies. They dry and smoke most of...
Support our Farmers in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is facing an economic crisis. New government leader, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, made the decision to shift the entire agriculture sector to strictly organic production (including bans on any uncertified organic fertilizer) creating devastating effects. The impacts include slowing the output of Sri Lankan exports to a near halt,...
Producer Spotlight: Boonville Barn Collective
Piment d'Espelette is a storied pepper from the Basque region of France. In 2012, Krissy Scommegna decided to start growing it in California’s fertile Anderson Valley, hoping to make this once exotic chili pepper a staple in the spice cabinets of America's chefs and home cooks.
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