Chile Forum

In my region (southern X) I would love to grow hops and grains, and have Hobby Beer. Vicki's Hobby Beer. Unfortunately, if I was really enjoying my hobby, there'd be little left to sell, share, or export.

Seriously though (not that I wasn't dead serious about beer) a small farm with a bottling system could produce some really fine salsas and sauces, jams and fruit compotes. A small farmer could grow aji peppers, all kinds of exotic and varied colored peppers, garlic, herbs, use apples to make vinegars, hook up with an olive farmer in the north, and make chimi-churi sauces, hot pepper sauces of red, green or yellow peppers, hot pepper jellies.

My last trip to the US I took back the traditional red aji sauces, chimichuri, garlic and other traditional sauces in bottles for family and they were crazy about it. My son uses the red aji stuff now when he makes buffalo wings. Everyone wanted more for Christmas time this year.

I meant to mention that hops do grow here. Some people have them growing on fences including the local church on the town square. No one I know makes beer here, opting instead for wine and CRISTAL! Not that there's anything wrong with that.

So, anyway, with the wonderful soil, and despite the long winters down here, someone with a green thumb and sticktoitiveness, could do just about anything.

How about a start up making the food that these aquaculture business's use. Its probably not as glamores as fish farming but you might have built in demand and if its better and staves off some of the problems they have now it could work. Just an idea

Well farming is good almost in every part of Chile, I think that you should be more worry about your international contact and possible buyers. If you are in Asia I guess is a good place to star to find some infomation.

The Salmon farming is getting hard in Chile there are too many players and the best part for that is way down south if you want to compite with Canada/