Sustainable Agriculture

At The Chef’s Garden™, Inc., our commitment to sustainable agriculture defines much of what we do on the farm and who we are. The farming method we choose to practice is an age-old farming approach that allows our products to grow naturally to achieve optimum flavor and nutrient levels. We are deeply dedicated to “Growing vegetables slowly and gently, in full accord with nature"®.

In keeping with that goal we are in a constant state of discontent, as we always look for new ways to enhance the soil and farm the way our great-grandfathers did. We believe that by rebuilding the soil naturally it will return to us a sweeter, better-tasting product.

Sustainable agriculture is a victory for everyone: You win because we can offer you a product with better taste; our children and grandchildren win because the soil we leave to their generations will continue to be alive and productive; and your guests win, because you are creating plates with the highest quality products we believe you could possibly put on them!

Sustainable agriculture is a broad spectrum approach to natural farming. This particular agriculture system allows us to provide you the optimum in flavor, yet not ruin the land or contaminate the people, environment or ozone. In this type of system, agriculture can survive and thrive long term. As opposed to conventional farming, which can be defined as a mining process in which each year the soils are depleted of vital nutrients, sustainable agriculture is a building of the soil year after year.

Organic or certified organic stands for some of the same things, but organic means that a product is grown without the use of chemicals or pesticides that could harm you. Sustainable agriculture, or Beyond Organic™ is broader conceptually. Organic is the elimination of chemicals and synthetic fertilizers from the process, and while that removes the bad elements, we believe it is not a completion of the agricultural process until the bad is replaced with the good, as in sustainable practices. We use the very green cover plants that grow in fallow land as recipe ingredients in a tea compost. These put the proper nutrients back into the soil.

Our beliefs and methodologies show that sustainable agriculture offers the greatest opportunity for maximum flavor, nutrients and shelf life in the products we are proud to hand-harvest for you each day!