A Day In The Dirt

Hey Friends,

Last week about half of the Butterfly Bakery crew headed down to Honey Field Farm in Norwich for our annual Farm Day.

Once a year we trade sauce making for farm chores.

We spent the day planting, weeding, cleaning, hauling, touring the fields, sharing lunch with the farm crew, and getting to experience a taste of the work that goes into growing our peppers.

This was our fourth Farm Day and it remains one of my favorite things that we do.

One of the highlights was seeing an herb garden that we helped plant last year. It survived the winter so well that Honey Field was harvesting herbs from it in January. Farmers are clearly wizards.

We shared lunch with the Honey Field Farm crew under the most perfect tree in Vermont, ate popsicles on one of the first hot days of summer, and spent time catching up with the people who grow so many of the peppers that become our hot sauces.

By the time we got back to Barre, we were tired, dirty, and very grateful for the folks who wake up every morning and choose farming.

It's so easy to think of hot sauce as something that happens in a bottle.

But before it becomes a bottle of Taco Vibes Only, Maple Wood Smoked Onion, or Heady Topper Hot Sauce, it starts as a plant in a field. Someone seeds it. Someone waters it. Someone watches the forecast and hopes for the right amount of rain. Someone weeds around it, harvests it, hauls it, sorts it, and gets it to us in Barre.

Then we get to do our part.

We turn those peppers into the sauces you put on eggs, tacos, pizza, noodles, leftovers, and whatever else wants a kick.

Farm Day is our yearly reminder of the much bigger story behind every bottle that we cook up in our kitchen.

We are so grateful to work with farmers who care this much about what they grow. And we’re grateful that you care about where your food comes from, too.

So if it's time restock your hot sauce shelf, this is a good week to do it. Not because we’re doing anything flashy, but because every bottle connects back to this work, these farms, and these peppers.

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❤️ Claire
CEO & Founder
Butterfly Bakery of Vermont & Fat Toad Farm