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Hot sauce maker helps pepper farmer recover after hail storm decimates crops

SoGen farm in Cannon Falls is this family’s dream. But in August, it became a nightmare and went out to find our crops pretty well ravaged Hail came down and busted their precious fruit right before harvest. But then one of the farms clients volunteered to take the riddled remnants. They all took took whatever peppers we had that could be used, you know, a lot of scratching debt stuff. And seven months later, what was almost trash is now Treasure, the founder of Cry Baby, Craig’s made a scratch and dent hot sauce, appropriately named Hail Fire. It’s overwhelming, really, with how how well received it is. Craig Keiser and a spirited business partner, Sam, aren’t taking a penny from the Prophet Nora’s Luns, whose exclusively selling the sauce. It will all go to SoGen Farms. And if this hail fire sauce keeps selling like it is, it could mean $40,000 for Dana and his farm. Yes, it’s a it’s a nice gesture, but at the end of the day, I wasn’t looking at it like that. I was looking at the pain that those families were dealing with, um, knowing that you woke up one morning and you lost everything that you may not have another season to grow. A former farm kid himself, Craig Keiser knows that true growth comes from within. I think what I wish for the most is that this shows how easy it is that you can help someone else. Whoa! Running Susan Elizabeth Littlefield WCC Oh, for news.

Hot sauce maker helps pepper farmer recover after hail storm decimates crops

A Minnesota family’s pepper farm that was devastated by a hail storm last year right before harvest got some help from an unlikely source.”(We) went out to find our crops pretty well ravaged,” Dana Jokela, of Sogn Farms, told WCCO-TV.While many peppered were ruined, some were salvaged for a new purpose.Seven months later, the trash became treasure in the form of bottled hot sauce. Craig Kaiser created a batch of special hot sauce aptly named “hailfire” with the peppers.Watch the video above to learn more about this story.

CANNON FALLS, Minn. —

A Minnesota family’s pepper farm that was devastated by a hail storm last year right before harvest got some help from an unlikely source.

“(We) went out to find our crops pretty well ravaged,” Dana Jokela, of Sogn Farms, told WCCO-TV.

While many peppered were ruined, some were salvaged for a new purpose.

Seven months later, the trash became treasure in the form of bottled hot sauce. Craig Kaiser created a batch of special hot sauce aptly named “hailfire” with the peppers.

Watch the video above to learn more about this story.