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23rd May
New sauce - Habanero Paper Lantern Limited Edition, 48 bottles only.
Made with our entire crop of 2012 chillies, so limited to 48 numbered bottles.
20th May
Dartmoor Devil - superhot white chocolate has been given a revamp. We hope you like the new branding!!
14th May
We didn't win but it was great to be runners up. Another one for our collection.
We won't change our environmental ethos for anything!
9th May
New Rapeseed Oils now available - Piri Piri, Basil, Garlic.
New Seed Growing Kit now available - only £3.50
6th May
Now all backorders have been sent, we have decided to stop offering mail order plants.
Our prices this season are actually cheaper than in 2007-2012 at £1.50 per plant, but everything else has dramatically risen in price, especially the cost of delivery, blisterpacks, packaging and paypal/cc fees.
Unfortunately this makes mail order plants uneconomical as we barely break even.
We will still be offering plants in numerous varieties at the markets and events we attend.
We recommend Kernow Chillies, Simpson Seeds and Seaspringplants.co.uk for customers looking for mail order plants
Our prices this season are actually cheaper than in 2007-2012 at £1.50 per plant, but everything else has dramatically risen in price, especially the cost of delivery, blisterpacks, packaging and paypal/cc fees.
Unfortunately this makes mail order plants uneconomical as we barely break even.
We will still be offering plants in numerous varieties at the markets and events we attend.
We recommend Kernow Chillies, Simpson Seeds and Seaspringplants.co.uk for customers looking for mail order plants
3rd May
We've been up to RHS Rosemoor today and confirmed the date / location for the 1st Devon Chilli Fiesta. Hopefully the first of many!
We've added lots of pictures to our Facebook page here : (See RHS Album 48 pics)
https://www.facebook.com/DartmoorChilliFarm
The Devon Chilli Fiesta will be held at Rosemoor Gardens on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th May 2014.
Rosemoor is a amazing place with lots of individual acclaimed gardens and thousands of plants.
It features an all - weather marquee for the chilli festival, proper parking and loads to do.
We aim to also have chilli talks and demonstrations, cookery demos, chilli sauce competitions, samga dancing and music, childrens entertainment... and loads more.
The cost will be just the entrance to RHS Rosemoor with NO additional charges. So if you are an RHS Member, it will be free to get in.
There will be a dedicated website in the next few months. We aim to have about 35 chilli companies from around the UK. So far we have had substantial interest across the board!
We have been looking for a while for the perfect venue for a chilli festival.
With RHS Rosemoor, we think we have found it.
2nd May
No orders out today as we had an event in Plymouth. The remainder of backorders for plants are going out next Tuesday and Wednesday (Monday is bank holiday).
We have introduced a flat delivery rate of £4.95 to UK customers.
Tomorrow we are off to RHS Rosemoor to discuss plans for our chilli festival next year.
1st May
Another 50 orders out today. That's all we can ship this week - as we don't want our little plants sitting dying in sorting offices all weekend. Remainder of plant orders will go on tue/wed next week.
30th April
Posting out Fire & Spice 6 Packs today
Custom packs and 3 plant packs will go out soon. There is a limit to how many we can get out per day as packing, boxing and sorting out invoices/labels all takes time. Especially as there are just 2 of us now.
29th April
Plants are now shipping depending on variety.
First to ship are Culinary 6 pack, Tried and Trusted 6 pack and Chilli Club plants.
24th April
We have a big new stockist in Totnes. Annies Fruit Shop are supplying lots of our range including most of our sauces, chilli chocolate, chilli plants and a selection of our salts.
They specialise in local foods and fresh fruit and vegetables.
Plants are getting there! We estimate we will start sending backorders from the 29th April - depending on variety. Some of the hot packs may take a week or so longer. All orders will ship by courier.
Massive show for us this weekend.. We have the Exeter food and drink festival on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Lots of new products including our new selection of oils and chilli spices.
15th April
Our sauces and oils have all been rebranded with new labels. We think it makes the products more professional looking and our stockists have given very positive feedback. The next product to get a make over will be the Dartmoor Devil.
Due to poor weather (ie no spring!) we have made a decision to delay sending our chilli plants until at least the end of April. If this is a problem for customers, we will of course offer a full refund. Last March, the weather was lovely but in 2013, the average daily temperature was 4 degrees which is not conducive to growth of chilli plants.
This will be the last year we will be offering mail order plants. The huge increase in Postal costs has effectively killed off any profit. It used to cost £4.85 to send a box. The same box now costs £8.00. Thanks Royal Mail! Our plants were £10 including free delivery, but if delivery costs are now going to be £8.00, it is simply not worth doing them. We will honour all orders placed so far, but we have removed the ability to place orders online for plants until we work out what we are going to do. Collect+ is an option but it is not a next day service and therefore not much use for plant orders.
We are looking at APC Couriers and will have an update on this in the next week or so. At this moment in time, it looks like we will be using APC for everything but we are just finalising quantities.
We have a new stockist in Merrivale.... Merrivale Stores. We will post information + photos about them as soon as we have received them.
We also have a new stockist in Newton Abbot and another in Wigan. More details on all 3 in the next day or so.
2nd April
New postage rules due to Royal Mail price increase. We have decided to ditch Royal Mail and post pretty much all orders by courier.
31st March
Website is back running again! Phew.
30th March
There is a problem with the website in the fact that products are not displaying. We are aware of it and have contacted the cart provider. Hopefully this should be resolved soon. Typically it has happened today just at the start of the Easter holiday!!
24th March
Nice review of our Dartmoor Devil from the Clifton Chilli Club
17th March
Special feature for our good friend Alex Duck from Upton Cheyney chilli farm, who is cycling from Lands End to John O Groats in June, raising money for CLIC Sargent. Please help if you can!
http://www.dartmoorchillifarm.com/index.aspx?pageid=2022189
15th March
New post on Projects page
Spicy Plum & Cherry relish (recipe)
http://www.dartmoorchillifarm.com/storepage1173285.aspx
9th March
A Chilli Cheese is now available from Curworthy Cheese which uses our own fresh Ring of Fire Chillies.
Curworthy are proper cheesemakers. 
Please visit their website below for more information.
http://www.curworthycheese.co.uk
Stockbeare Farm, Jacobstowe, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 3PZ,
Tel: 01837 810587
7th March
New post on Projects page. Introducing the Chilefoundry site for independent, non-biased chilli product reviews.
http://www.dartmoorchillifarm.com/storepage1173285.aspx
27th February
Another video review. This one is of our Hickory Smoked Chipotle Sauce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTovOOlld4E
We had to remove older posts as the news page was getting huge. We will now be keeping 1 month of news on the page.
