The reality of farms with Kampot pepper?
Every year we organize a Czech pepper expedition and take our colleagues, customers, and friends to the farms. This year's expedition was once again a "shock". At the end of the day, we asked what surprised them the most about working with Kampot pepper.
Terezka: "You have to wait 4 years for that pepper plant to grow! That's incredible patience. Moreover, since it's organic, it is insanely sensitive."
"Most farms still draw water from the irrigation pond by hand, bucket by bucket, walking kilometers, and yet everyone remains positive and smiling."
Anička
"I came with the idea that it would be like blueberries and it has 4 meters of pepper!"
"Red pepper is terribly tricky! Because you have to pick it berry by berry, as each berry ripens at a different time."
Martina
"This is my second time here. I really like seeing that farms have finally started to expand and plant new seedlings. When we came the first time, the farms were dying."
Nikola
"I was surprised by how little pepper you get from the hard work on one plant per year! I calculated it, and from this little field, the whole family gets only about 200 kg of pepper."
Jana
"I was shocked that from one green pepper berry you actually get all types of Kampot peppers, that the taste is just a matter of ripening time. And that white is therefore the most demanding of all, because you pick berry by berry last and it is still peeled."
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