Existing comment:
Xavier Brown, Founder, Soilful City
QUOTE:
"I make my hot sauce to create an interdependent system of Black growers. So, if something happens to my people in Baltimore and they lose all their peppers, my people all over Northeast DC got peppers, my people in Capitol Heights still got peppers. You know what I'm saying? To show a model where if one falls, the whole thing don't just shut down. And where urban agriculture is more economically viable."
STORY:
In 2016, a "seedkeeper" gifted Xavier Brown with Pippin Pepper seeds, a variety of sweet pepper known to have been passed down from renowned 20th-century African American visual artist Horace Pippin. Xavier used his first crop to develop a sauce recipe, then recruited urban farmers across DC and Baltimore to grow the small plots of peppers. Today, their Pippin Hot Sauce is sold at stores across the city. |