[CH] Turbetti's Pepper Farm near Stockton, California
Art Pierce (pierces@cruzio.com)
Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:01:14 -0700
Such-a-deal.
I drove back home to Watsonville, CA from Sutter Creek and stopped in
at Joe & Aurelia's pepper farm (& peach ranch).
It was well-described in 1997 by Howard & Marcy Guyer of Livermore:
http://neptune.netimages.com/~chile/chileFarm.html
My wife, Dee, took some pictures which I'll post
after the film gets developed.
It's on the south side of the road
just over 4 miles east of Highway 99 on Highway 88
(9816 E.Waterloo Road):
http://www.mapblast.com/mblast/map.mb?CT=38.008829%3A-121.197403%3A30000&GAD1=&GAD2=E+Waterloo+Rd&GAD3=Stockton%2C+CA++95215-2303&GAD4=USA&W=425&H=250&IC=37.9874%3A-121.2437%3A8%3A&Zip=95215&lv=4&MA=1&zoom.x=36&zoom.y=135
(Note: the red cross is only about 1/4 mile east.)
The sign on their driveway at the highway says
PEPPERS
ROASTING
or maybe it was
CHILES
ROASTING
They have 7.5 acres of peppers on this plot
and 10 acres on another, a little closer to town.
There are 21 varieties.
You pick your own peppers
and they're all only 25 cents/lb.
I picked 6 chiles each of
Numex Big Jim, Numex Sandia & Habanero Red
and Joe didn't charge me anything because
that was such a small amount.
Joe's quit irrigating, so picking will be over
by mid-November.
20 varieties are now ripe,
except the 4 rows of Habanero Reds,
http://www.tvfuture.com/enchanted/exotic.htm
which are 99% still green,
but will be ripe by the Oct. 30/31st weekend.
You could check ahead of time to be sure.
You can reach him by phone 7AM-6PM
209.931.4069
You can reach his wife, Aurelia, by email at
chili-ck@pacbell.net