Where we grow
Facilities
We design cultivars computationally and validate them in controlled greenhouses across two campuses. Both are precision environments — the point is not the local weather but the control, so a grown result can be compared cleanly against a computed design. These greenhouses have run quietly and experimentally for years, largely out of view — this is that work beginning to come out of stealth.
Primary campus
Montecito, California
Mediterranean — mild, maritime, Pacific wind.
Family farm
Our home base. A family-owned farm in Montecito run as a precision-controlled greenhouse — every environmental variable held constant so a measured result can be compared cleanly against a computed design. The Mediterranean microclimate is unusually kind to Capsicum, which makes it both a practical growing site and a useful validation environment.
Second facility · near CERN
Geneva, Switzerland
Cold temperate — real winters, short seasons.
Land acquired 2014 · greenhouse built 2018
A small parcel near CERN, acquired in 2014, with a controlled greenhouse that has been operational since 2018. Geneva's climate is the opposite of a pepper's — which is precisely the point: nothing grows here without full environmental control, so the greenhouse is the experiment, not the weather. Proximity to CERN and to our Swiss research partners keeps the work in the orbit of serious, instrument-driven science.
Greenhouse validation is in progress. No cultivar has been grown and measured yet — every heat value we publish remains a computed design target until HPLC confirms it. Follow each design’s standing on the validation tracker.