About Us

We Create Garden Grown Hot Sauces

We focus on creating flavor first hot sauces from fresh, garden grown ingredients from our multiple gardens throughout Minnesota. We take a seasonal approach to hot sauce making each year.

Starting from Seed

We start our plants from seed in the winter. This year we grew over 40 varieties entirely from seed!

Planting in Spring

We plant our peppers in the spring. This year we planted over 250 pepper plants across 4 gardens.

Harvesting

We then harvest in the summer. We grow peppers & other produce we use in our sauces such as garlic, tomatoes, raspberries, tomatillos, and cucumbers from our multiple gardens across Minnesota.

Creating Sauces

We then turn all the peppers into sauces. We dream up new recipes and make some existing classics each year. Once they're gone, we're out until we have enough peppers to make more next fall!

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Our Story

Thanks to a bumper harvest of habaneros, Eric "Sembo" Semborski combined his love of gardening and cooking into a new hobby - hot sauce making! This combination of his passions turned into Sembo's Sauce, a venture that continues to grow.

In 2023, Sembo's Sauce became officially licensed as a Minnesota Cottage Food Producer! This doesn't change our sauces or production, but does allow us to sell at farmers markets and events locally. Check out the Events page to see where you can find us next.

Sembo is based in Southwest Minneapolis with his wife Sara, daughter Sadie, and two cats Pancake and Hazelnut.