Root 56 Farm

Athens, Ohio · 0 sauces on record

Note from the registry: GREEN: identity + hot-sauce line + sale proved by two truly independent sources (2025 Athens Farmers Market member list; Ohio CDC 2024 Annual Report) plus ACEnet newsletters. Family farm (Heather Fuston & Andy Baldwin), 8938 Five Points Road, Athens OH 45701; member of the Athens Farmers Market since 2021; first bottling run of fermented hot sauce Feb 2022 at the ACEnet Food Ventures Center; bottled sauces have 'a large following' at the Athens Farmers Market, Kindred Market and other direct outlets; 2024 IDA grant to scale up hot sauce production; vendor at ACEnet's Dec 2026 Holiday Open House. NO individual sauce recorded: the three Dec 2021 / Feb 2022 sauces were described (medium Aji Lemon/sweet pepper/carrot with mango puree; a sweeter one; a hotter one) but never named — a follow-up pass can name them. County Athens County, confirmed in source (Ohio CDC: 'western Athens County').

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Location: Athens, Ohio
County: Athens County (confirmed in source)
Category: Core Hot
Founded / launch: 2022 (first bottling run Feb 2022 — founding year not stated)
Evidence: Launch year on record
CapsaMark ID: CM-M-ROOT-56-FARM

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