Producer

Boonville Barn Collective is a woman-owned farm that’s been producing unique chile powders since 2012 in the resource-rich Anderson Valley in Northern California, including our signature Piment d’Ville. This whole thing started when Krissy was a sous chef at The Boonville Hotel and used Piment d’Espelette on everything in the kitchen. It was expensive to import from France and in order to use more of it, growing it here in Boonville seemed like a more accessible approach. Between acquiring pepper seeds, having land available to grow on, and an incredibly willing foreman interested in a challenge, we started growing what we call Piment d’Ville, our California version of Piment d’Espelette.

Renegade certified.

We’re one of the few farms in California that produces dried chiles at scale.

And by scale, we’re talking about 4 acres of chiles which are all harvested by hand and dried to create chile powders, flakes or whole dried chiles. The supply chain we built is short, free of import tariffs, and is direct from our farm.

The entire production process takes place on our Anderson Valley farm: from saving seeds, to planting starts, to harvesting chiles, to drying them, to packing the chiles up, to planning what happens next year. Each order is packed and shipped by our team from our farm office. We take pride in having our hands in the whole process.