MIG's Story

I grew up as a country boy in southern Huron county, OH. With both parents as schoolteachers and a family of 5 kids, growing a huge garden each year and harvesting, picking, freezing, and canning was just a way of life.  This is how I learned about the hard work and long hours it took to grow and care for vegetable gardens, fruit trees, etc., including these experiences:

• digging onions, carrots, potatoes, and radishes. Picking green/yellow & lima beans, peas, squash, zucchini, sweet corn, cucumbers, and tomatoes
• picking strawberries, red raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries
• picking apples, pears, plums, rhubarb & more.

When my wife (Kathy) and I bought a home with a yard large enough, naturally I started my own vegetable garden.  In the early years I planted mostly what our kids like the most such as cantaloupe, watermelon, cucumbers, zucchini etc.  I always added sweet corn and tomatoes and one year even grew sun flowers so we could feed the birds. 

In more recent years I started growing more peppers, tomatoes, and onions because I wanted to try to make my own salsa.  However, I soon realized that this is a very long and arduous process.  I figured it was much easier to buy the salsa I wanted and that is when I began to grow mostly hot peppers (with a few tomatoes) each year. Soon my vegetable garden was blooming with more peppers and tomatoes than I could possibly eat.  This is about the time when the MIG’S Smokin’ Hot Flakes idea was created. 

Over the next several years I tried and experimented with many ways to cultivate the best hot pepper and smoked product I could make.  I now select only the finest in hot pepper vegetable plants and have learned the best way to keep my garden soil moist during hot summers.  I also use my own 100% natural composting process to keep my soil nutrient rich.  I use only the best smoking chips to deliver the perfect smoke flavor.  I also matured the final grinding and blending process that now exists in the current MIG’S Smokin’ Hot Flakes product. 

I had a record harvest in 2021! We currently offer a 4 oz and a 2.75 net wt. oz bottle that comes with a fresh seal that significantly extends the product’s life. 

Please try it on anything and everything as it’s the perfect pepper shake for any pizza, pasta, soup, salad, sandwich, grilled beef/chicken/fish or your scrambled eggs for a big country breakfast! Please share it with your family and friends!  MIG’S has a unique smoky flavor and be careful, go slow…because it is HOT! As we say in our house, “Just MIG it!”