Chiles - Sweet Heat
by Karyn Robinson
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8.000 x 10.000 inches
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Title
Chiles - Sweet Heat
Artist
Karyn Robinson
Medium
Painting - Painting
Description
Chiles - Sweet Heat, on oil painting by Karyn Robinson, Gilbert, Arizona
There are many different varieties of chiles. Some are short and fat, some are green, and some, like these are long and slender.
The most famous chilies in North America come from Hatch, New Mexico.
The Hatch Chile Festival is an annual event that occurs each Labor Day. This event attracts people world wide to a place known as the chile capital of the world.
The small town has accommodated up to 30,000 people for this event. This small farming community is known world wide for raising very good chiles. By 2012, Hatch chiles were being marketed under their name in most major urban markets in the US. Other crops such as onions, cotton, and corn are also raised there. Irrigation of local farms is accomplished by water wells as well as irrigation ditches which divert water from the Rio Grande and two lakes approximately 20 miles north of Hatch named Caballo (Spanish for "horse") and Elephant Butte Reservoir (named after a rock formation in the middle of the lake that looks similar to an elephant).
Hatch is 40 miles north of Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Interstate 25, and 34 miles south of Spaceport America, a new purpose-built spaceport being built by the New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) with State and county funding. In 2012, the NMSA announced it would be building a spaceport visitor's center in Hatch.
Makes sense...their chiles are already out of this world.
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