Hot Stuff: Braemar’s Chilli Sauce

The team at our Braemar location in New South Wales, have turned up the heat and developed their very own hot sauce using chillis grown at Farm Fresh - a social enterprise where produce is planted, grown hydroponically, and harvested by Scope’s supported employees.

Site Manager at Farm Fresh, Wara Katsiri, is a big fan of hot sauce, so when one of the supported employees brought some in for him to try, it sparked an idea. The team soon got to work making their own sauce.

“Most of our employees got involved and they really enjoyed the process,” Wara says. “They got to start with the garden beds and continue to look after the plants, they were hands on from start to finish.”

“I give credit to our people. They were so excited - from growing the plants from seed, to providing the harvest to the sauce maker, then on to the selling phase,” Wara said.

The chilli sauce is now being sold alongside Braemar’s microherbs at an employee market held at Kingsgrove once a month; giving employees and supported employees a chance to gain skills in sales too.

The team has also planted lemongrass at Braemar to make a salad dressing, but he says, “the ultimate goal is to get a stall at a local market to sell our herbs and sauce products. The next product will be parsley pesto!”