January 5, 2022
Small Axe Peppers Hot Sauce uses community garden partners to produce the peppers for its hot sauce. Locally, Heartland Alliance’s FarmWorks is one of the partner gardens. PHOTOS PROVIDED BY DAN KULP
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Nationally known hot sauce uses peppers from local gardens
Dan Fitzgerald and his business partner John Crotty started Small Axe Peppers Hot Sauce because they had acquired land and created a community garden. It was their first foray into the community garden and urban farming scene, something that the Bronx is robust for. The problem they ran into was that while the gardens were doing amazing things on the grassroots level in their communities, they had to depend on city grants and out of pocket expenses to fund what they were doing.