After your chile has been picked and put into large bins, it is trucked to our packing facility known as The Shed. Having not been there before with a name like The Shed, I expected it to be more primitive, I guess you could say.  The facility is large with a production line that allows us to grade, clean, and pack your chile efficiently. There is also a large cooler room where chile ‘rests’ while other varieties are being packed. After the boxes are packed, they go into the cooler to wait for the shipping truck. 

The men and women packing your chile take great pride in making sure your orders are packed correctly. We are human and can make mistakes, so we do appreciate your kindness when mistakes happen.

On this week, we packed chile until we ran out.There were still boxes that we could not pack. I wanted to cry, as I know how important it is for everyone to get their chile.

Despite our best efforts at ordering enough chile from the grower, sometimes gradeout is higher than anticipated, and sometimes we come up short on excellent quality chile to ship. Being an agricultural product, we can’t just whip up more, and we appreciate your understanding when things like that happen.

Thanks for coming along with me for a day in the life.  Soon, I will be heading to our roasting facility to show you chile is roasted and prepped for those of you who purchase our roasted chile. We might even get to pop in and see how the rellenos and tamales are made!

We are about halfway through the season, so it is a perfect time to get your order in for Fresh Hatch Green Chile!