Watercolor illustration of various sweet peppers, including red, yellow, orange, purple, and green peppers, each labeled with their names, with a logo in the top left corner, and text at the bottom promoting Vermont's sweet peppers as the harvest of the month.

Peppers

Peppers are native to Central and South America. They are among the first plants to be cultivated there. Pepper seeds dating back to 5000 B.C. have been discovered in Mexico. Because the pepper plant is very adaptable, many different areas of the world are able to cultivate them.

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A variety of colorful bell peppers, mostly yellow, orange, and red, piled together.