015: ALERT! The Heat is On with Sufia Hossain

<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Be mindful about whatever your project is. Create something that would be wholesome for the human body and the earth.”</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">-Sufia Hossain</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Episode Description:</strong></p> <p><a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/dining/silly-chilly-hotsauce.html"> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">“A Hot Sauce with a Fashionable Pedigree,”</span></em></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote The New York Times about Sufia Hossain’s</span> <a href= "https://sillychillyhotsauce.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Silly Chilly Hot Sauce</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, which is currently offered in flavors that will tickle your taste buds:</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Super Hot</span></em> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Habanero</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">,</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Fresh Mango</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Sweet Pepper,</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and the</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Smokey</span></em> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Serrano and Chipotle</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. [Check Resources for discounts!]  What started out as Sufia’s dream of winning a hot sauce contest is now a mission-driven company that values better-for-you food products and supports local organic farmers. All of Silly Chilly’s hot sauces are made from locally-sourced ingredients directly grown and handpicked by New Jersey farmers. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recently, headlines caused quite a stir with predictions about the number of harvest seasons we have left. Some say about a hundred, others 60, and some- more dire- put the number at only 30. </span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Yet, it’s not how many seasons remain, but the fact that our soil health has declined enough to threaten the earth a