Peppers & Friends · Stillwater, Minnesota

Craft fermented hot sauces that make food taste better

Small-batch sauces made by hand from regeneratively grown Minnesota peppers. No chemicals or weird stuff, ever.

Hot sauce for gourmands

Made for the joy of eating

I've been making sauces to complement family meals since the 1980s. Having had the privilege to taste great food in over 30 countries — from the North of Ireland to the Northland of Minnesota — there's no greater pleasure than sharing some of that with friends old and new.

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Seed to sauce

We grow our own peppers and source the rest from local farmers we know by name, using organic and regenerative practices.

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Fermented by hand

Every sauce is fermented and simmered in small batches in our home kitchen on Stillwater's South Hill. It takes time to get it right.

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1% for the Planet

Sauce North gives at least 1% of sales to support regenerative agriculture and food-system projects. People and ingredients matter.

From the Minnesota harvest

Real peppers, grown with care

Our sauces start in the field. We use our own homegrown #seedtosauce peppers alongside crops grown specifically for us by friends who stay close to their soil — vine-ripened, hand-picked, and fermented while fresh.

The result is flavor with a story: bright, layered, and balanced, with just the heat each sauce needs and nothing it doesn't.

Read our story
Peppers growing in a Minnesota field
Still saucing

Want to order or just talk peppers?

Sauce North is running quietly these days, but we still love to hear from returning customers and pepper enthusiasts. Reach out and we'll let you know what's available.