Q: Dear Dave, It sounds like you are an expert in
the field of chiles.
Old Highway 185 begins just south of Caballo, winds though the prime agricultural area of New Mexico and groves of pecans and
fields of chiles, alfalfa, pecans, onions, and cotton and the towns of Arrey, Derry, Garfield, Salem, and Hatch, and finally ends up in Las Cruces.
Not exact matches
The tangy flavor
of green
chiles and
field - green tomatoes and LA VICTORIA ® Green Enchilada Sauce will bring your next recipe to life.
The pictures below attempt to share our experience by taking you from the Hatch
chile fields through the process
of roasting and packaging
chile at The Hatch
Chile Store.
During
chile harvesting (late July - September for green), there are teams
of pickers roaming through the
fields carrying buckets full
of green
chiles, which are then dumped into large, wooden - sided carts.
Mario's specialty are ornamental peppers, and here's just one
of the many
chile varieties we saw in his hacienda's pepper
fields, an incredible flash
of colors at this time
of the year.
Rather, I had my eyes on small
fields, plants in the crags, and in the markets, hunting for signs
of chile peppers.
I had just taken pictures
of chile fields that had surrounded me!
When
chile growers Joe and Martha Lujan
of Las Cruces, New Mexico were kind enough to show Harald and his wife Renate around their
chile fields and roasting facility, Martha fixed them this tasty snack.
Photo - Essay by Paul Ross In a region renowned for
chile, at the end
of the season
of green and in a town synonymous with both, New Mexico has gone red.The annual Hatch
Chile Festival is over and the quiet
fields which swaddle the returned - to - sleepy town are newly - plowed and waiting or — dotted with — rich, red, maturing pods
of friendly fire.
I'm very interested in New Mexico land race
chiles — those heirloom varieties that have been grown in the same
fields for hundreds
of years.
During the early days
of chile production in Nigeria,
chiles were grown in patches near houses and as
field crops under the shade
of locust bean trees.
There are dark forces at work far beyond your control, like when my brother Rick's
chile field was totally trashed by five inches
of rain in two hours.
Emma Jean Cervantes, president
of Cervantes Enterprises, shows a stand
of Tabasco
chile grown in an experimental drip irrigation
field for the McElhenny Company.
The shoot began at 7:30 am on Monday, August 16, 2004 in the
chile fields at the Heritage Farm at the Rio Grande Botanic Garden in Albuquerque, with the help
of Catherine Hubbard, director, and Kenny Autrey, farm manager.
Famed
chile pepper breeder Roy Nakayama once reported that skunks were eating the pods in some
of his
fields.
On the way back to San José from the habanero
fields in Los
Chiles, we stopped at the restaurant La Junta to sample some
of the local beef.
Using reflectors for the best possible lighting, Gordon positioned me on a chair in the
field and asked me questions about the tradition
of chile in New Mexico and how it related to barbecue.
The
chiles become associated with the cotton or peanut crops and thrive from the maintenance
of those
fields.