With both parents as school teachers and a family with 5 kids, growing a huge garden each year and harvesting, picking, freezing and canning was just a way of life. This is how I learned about the hard work and long hours it took to grow and care for vegetable gardens, fruit trees, etc., including these experiences:
– digging onions, carrots, potatoes and radishes. Picking green
/yellow
and lima beans, peas, squash, zucchini, sweet corn
cucumbers and tomatoes
– picking strawberries, red raspberries, blackberries and blueberry's
– picking apples, pears and plums, rhubarb and more...
When my wife (Kathy) and I bought a home with a yard large enough, naturally I started my own vegetable garden. In the early years I planted mostly what our kids liked the most such as cantaloupe, watermelon, cucumbers, zucchini etc. I always added sweet corn and tomatoes and 1 year even grew sun flowers so we could feed the birds. In more recent years I started growing more peppers, tomatoes and onions because I wanted to try to make my own salsa. However I soon realized that this is a very long and arduous process. I figured it was much easier to buy the Salsa I wanted and that is when I began to grow mostly hot peppers (with a few tomatoes) each year. Soon my vegetable garden was blooming with more peppers and tomatoes than I could possibly eat. This is about the time when the MIG's Smokin' Hot Flakes idea was created. Over the next several years I tried and experimented with many ways to cultivate the best hot pepper, smoked product I could make. I now select only the finest in hot pepper vegetable plants and have learned the best way to keep my garden soil moist during hot summers. I also use my own 100% natural composting process to keep my soil nutrient rich. I use only the best smoking chips to deliver the perfect smoke flavor. I also matured the final grinding and blending process that now exists in the current MIG's Smokin' Hot Flakes product. Try it on anything and everything as it's the perfect pepper shake for any pizza, pasta, soup, salad, sandwich, grilled beef/chicken/fish or your scrambled eggs for your big country breakfast! You are sure to share it with family and friends at your next gathering. As we say in this house, "Just MIG it"!
