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FirstPick

Bulk bin of ripe superhot peppers at Sommerfeldt Farms

The ladder — every variety below comes off the same seventy-four acres

Ordered by Scoville, coolest to hottest. Scroll sideways on a phone.

Build a batch

Six common production runs and exactly what each one takes off this farm. Load one, then adjust any line. Everything is in 10 lb vented cases.

Quantities are starting points for a single batch at the stated yield. Scale by your run size.

No lots claimed $0.00

The farm is bigger than the peppers

Peppers are the wedge. Sommerfeldt runs a full seasonal operation, and most of it is available at wholesale volume on the same truck. Ask for anything on this page.

This sheet is free. Take it.

First Pick is a format, not a company. One HTML file, no server, no account, no fee. A farm downloads it, edits one block of plain text at the bottom — varieties, weights, prices, photos, contact — and publishes it anywhere: a website, a QR code on the barn, an attachment in an email to a buyer.

Nobody takes a cut. Every order on every copy of this sheet goes directly to the grower who published it. There is no intermediary in the transaction and no intention of becoming one.

If it makes a farm money and they want to keep the lights on for the next one, they can chip in for hosting. That is the whole business model.

Visit the stand

Wholesale runs off this sheet. The retail market is worth the drive on its own — a working barn with a hundred SKUs, a popcorn machine and a full Halloween build every fall.

First pick on next season

Everything above is this week's picking. The better arrangement is the one made in February. Tell the farm what you need and when, and they plant to your order — guaranteed volume at a locked price, harvested to your window instead of whatever happened to ripen. The grower gets a committed buyer before spending a dollar on seed.

10 lb minimum. Most sauce runs land between 100 and 800.

Superhots ripen late — expect August at the earliest.

Longer commitments price better.


  
The Sommerfeldt Farms stand in Benton Harbor, Michigan

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