Small Axe Peppers

It all started in The Bronx! The Bronx Hot Sauce was born in the spring of 2014 when Small Axe Peppers donated serrano pepper seedlings to five community gardens in the Bronx. The following year, based on their initial success, twenty additional gardens asked to participate. Together, they collectively grew almost a ton of serrano peppers in 2015, and a new economic model for urban farming was born! A Certified B Corporation, Small Axe Peppers has expanded its model to 15 cities across America and purchased locally-grown peppers from more than 75 community gardens. More and more gardens ask to participate each year and we want to work with all of them! Small Axe Peppers was founded by John A. Crotty and John Fitzgerald. Through their professional and personal experience, they understood that building communities cannot be done with just bricks and mortar. In order to be successful, communities are built by people working together. Small Axe Peppers works with more than 75 community gardens in 15 cities across America, including: Austin, Texas; Baltimore, Md.; Charlottesville, W. Va.; Chicago, Ill., Detroit, Mich.; Hartford, Conn.; Houston, Texas; Los Angeles, Calif.; Oakland, Calif.; Queens, N.Y., Sacramento, Calif.; Salt Lake City, Utah; San Antonio, Texas; San Diego, Calif.; The Bronx, N.Y. and Tucson, Ariz.