Enchanting Stories of New Mexico - Happy Hatch Valley Chile

The Fresh Chile Company Podcast

Here it is, my friends, April fifth and as you are listening to this Podcast, Chile Plants are going into the ground in the Hatch Valley Chile growing areas. In the growing areas, some of the Chile plants are started as seeds. That is happening right now and some Chile Plants were planted some weeks earlier in greenhouses since Chile (how should I say this?) well now Chile Plants just doesn’t like cold weather. So those young Chile Plants are being planted right now. You know what Chile Plants like? They like the Hatch Valley Chile Fields. How do you know Michael? According to some Agricultural people, the happiest Chile Plants produce the very best, the World-Famous Hatch Valley Green and Red Chile. It is delicious.

A little trivia: where are the happiest dairy cows in our country? Why they are in Southern New Mexico. That’s a mighty bold statement from a podcaster, can you back that up, Michael? Yes, I can. The measure of dairy cow happiness goes like this. For the same dairy cow breed and weight, the cows that produce the most milk every day as computed with how much they eat are the happiest. It involves the dairy cows being stressed or not. When the snow is a foot deep the cows don’t enjoy it and therefore can be said to be stressed and produce less milk. I got that from an Ag Professor at New Mexico State University, so you know it is true.

Back to happy Chile. So, the same is somewhat the same for plants. Those of a certain variety with equal amounts of water and nutrients that produce the best produce can be said to be the happiest since like the cows nothing is stressing them. When I have mentioned this people talk about how they make their plants feel better by talking to them or singing to them. Could be but the proof is at harvest. I will have to ask if the Chile farmers in the Hatch Valley have some Good Chile Songs. I will bring out my six string guitar and do my part to insure a great Chile harvest.

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