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The Bhut Jolokia Ghost Pepper is gaining more popularity and coming more and more into mainstream media. So much so that the local Los Angeles affiliate NBC4 recently did a segment on the pepper and how it’s being grown locally in Ventura County.
See the segment on NBC’s site, Butch talks about the pepper with NBC4 reporter Jennifer Bjorklund.
Butch on NBC4 talking about Ghost Peppers
The LA Times recently did an article about finding fresh Bhut Jolokia Ghost Peppers at the local Santa Monica Farmers Market.
Guinness World Records certified the Bhut Jolokia as the world’s hottest, and chileheads and gardeners scrambled to obtain seeds, plants and pods, which originally were scarce here. Last year, Butch and Burma Baselice, who run a spicy foods business called Red Hot Foods in Santa Paula, started 12,000 Bhut Jolokia plants to grow at five locations in Ventura County. They had some plants left over last spring, and it was getting late in the season for planting, so they gave them to Phil McGrath of Camarillo-based McGrath Family Farm, with the agreement that they would share the harvest.
Read the entire article here.
Or download a pdf here.
