The Fresh Chile Company Podcast

I was talking with some visitors to our area of Southern New Mexico the other day. One person asked, Is Green Chile a food, a condiment, a spice, a trade good or a medicine? I answered, Yes to all an…

Let us talk about an Out of this World Chile Pepper experience. A couple of years ago the NASA astronauts on the International Space Station ate Space Tacos with New Mexico Chile Peppers. You see, th…

I’m talking today about Hall of Fame golfer Nancy Lopez who graduated from Goddard High School in Roswell New Mexico after playing golf on the boy’s team since there was not a girls team. She got a s…

A little Pluto history is in order today. Pluto, the ninth planet, no, not the ninth planet, yes, the ninth planet. You hear the people arguing. Me, Michael Swickard, I look up in the sky and while I…

Last year the New Mexico Legislature made Chile Pepper Roasting the official smell of New Mexico. They were just catching up to the citizens who have prized the smell and taste of Chile Peppers. The …

It was at this time in 1898 that the very first film shot in New Mexico was released. This was epic film was done by Thomas A. Edison and his company and it was shot in the New Mexico Territory, sinc…

I am talking today about Rudolfo Anaya who wrote the story and legends of New Mexico in ways that most people had not seen. Over his almost sixty years of writing, it is his legacy that he spoke for …

One of the commonalities of the Chile Farmers is that most of them are multi-generational. Of the ones I know, most are third, fourth and even fifth generation farmers. They went to the university of…

What role do we Chile users have? We are the end users of the Agricultural Researchers and Commercial Farmers. We must arm the growers with what we liked the best out of the 2023 Hatch Valley Chile C…

Let me introduce you to Elfego Baca who on October 29, 1884, was a participant on one side of what is called the Frisco Shootout involving about 81 men. It was him against 80 mad cowboys since he arr…

A comparison of New Mexico Ranchers, and here I am speaking of Cattle Ranchers and New Mexico Farmers, and here I am talking about commercial crops such as Chile, cotton, alfalfa, and the like that i…

This is the last 2023 Enchanting People of New Mexico Podcast. We will start the 2024 Enchanting People of New Mexico next week. We started doing these Podcasts in June, three 15-minute Podcasts a we…

Today I’m talking about a 2015 member of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. He is one of 89 coaches in the Hall of Fame. If you attend a basketball game at New Mexico State University’s…

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that in the late 1970s a television series, The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams was shot one season in Lincoln County New Mexico, due to it having snow and the principle …

I’m talking about several people directly and half a million people, many in New Mexico, indirectly. I’m talking about Apollo 17 which 51 years ago was on the Moon with Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt. …

You might ask why in the middle of December 1972 did so many New Mexicans look up at the Moon? And, they were not the only ones, people all over the world looked up at the Moon. But especially people…

New Mexico has some unusual names such as Albuquerque, the County seat of Bernalillo County. Think of the spelling that young elementary students must learn both Albuquerque and Bernalillo. Bernalill…

New Mexico has had quite a few interesting people over the years, and I want to talk about one who was more than interesting, he was very effective. On the East side of New Mexico is Curry County. Cl…

Let’s take a tour of New Mexico, the 47th state in the union. Here are some data points. New Mexico is the 5th largest state in the Union. There is the special four-corners area where Arizona, New Me…

James Dolan in 1848 was born in Ireland and brought to the United States as a young child. At age 14 in 1862, he enlisted in the Union Army. Afterwards he was stationed at Fort Stanton, a few miles f…