Enchanting People of New Mexico - All the people making Chile happen

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 village of Hatch is known as the Chile Capital of the World. It holds the annual Chile Festival on Labor Day which started in 1972. But the roasting smell and taste of Chile Peppers have been a part of New Mexico for more than a hundred years.

New Mexicans and people of Mexico have been enjoying Chile Peppers longer than they have kept records, but it was a little over a hundred years ago in the Hatch and Mesilla Valleys that the Chile Pepper crops became commercial.

To do so required a combination of many unrelated people. First, it was the Chile Farmers who planted the crops. Second, it was the Chile researchers who kept providing good plants for the Chile Farmers, Third, it was the thousands of workers who created Elephant Butte Dam so that farmers of the Hatch and Mesilla Valley had the necessary water throughout the growing season and last, it was the thousands of railroad and highway workers who brought commercial crop transportation to Southern New Mexico 

These four groups, without consulting each other, provided that which was required for a Chile Pepper Crop Commercial success. If one had not done the essential work, there would not be the Hatch Valley Chile Crop making Hatch the Chile Capital of the World.

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