The Chef's Garden is the leading grower of artisanal products in the United States for the world's top chefs. We currently grow more than 600 varieties of vegetables, micro greens and herbs in eight different stages of growth to enhance any plate. We currently grow 87 varieties of heirloom tomatoes (click here to see our tomato varieties), a multitude of root crops, 300 different types of Micro Greens (click here to see our Micro Greens), Micro Herbs (click here to see our Micro herbs) and flowers (click here to see our flower varieties), and many experimental crops that provide you with the newest products around! (click here to learn more about our R & D)

Our uniqueness lies in much more than quantity and variety – by using sustainable agriculture methods, our products are exceptional in a variety of ways, including flavor, shelf life and nutritional content.

We pride ourselves in offering the highest quality, most flavorful, purest product anywhere! Let us tell you why. The Chef's Garden is a small family farm in Huron, Ohio, located just 3 miles from the Lake Erie shoreline. The fertile, sandy lake bottom soils puts us ahead of the game immediately. (click here to learn more about us)

The combination of bountiful, loamy soil with our method of sustainable farming of long ago allows us to be at the forefront of quality.

We are your direct source for the freshest, safest product available. Modern packing and shipping technology allows us to be your local grower, wherever you might be located.

Our farm believes strongly in the "Chef and Farmer Concept ®" – a relationship with our chefs, that gives us a combined energy far superior to one of us alone. That philosophy and our commitment to sustainable agriculture makes us who were are today! (click here to learn more about sustainable agriculture)

A standard credit application must be completed in order to become a customer. Simply e-mail us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and we can help you get started! You can also fill out our credit application here. Or you can give us a call at 800-289-4644.

To serve like-minded chefs in the best way possible, every single day, by working closely with you to provide the products you expect and deserve. We are here because of you!

Our farming methods allow our products to grow naturally to achieve optimum flavor and nutrient levels. Sustainable agriculture is a broad spectrum approach to natural farming. Our sustainable 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. Conventional farming is a mining process in which each year the soils are depleted of vital nutrients. However, sustainable agriculture is a building of the soil year after year to make it better.

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... period. Sustainable agriculture 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 green compost. These put the proper nutrients back into the soil.

Our beliefs and methodology shows that sustainable agriculture offers the greatest opportunity for maximum flavor, nutrients and shelf life! (click here to learn more about sustainable agriculture).

The Chef's Garden has implemented a proactive Food Safety program, one that is not simply reactive or preventative! We have been approved by and received superior ratings from top food safety and quality companies, including the Ohio Department of Agriculture, the USDA, Primus and AVENDRA. We have standards in place to protect our valued customers! We have numerous safety tools – a metal detector; a cool-down facility; hairnets; and lab coats are just a few! To help ensure top-notch food safety standards, we have a full-time safety specialist on the farm, as well as soil consultants and outside food safety consultants. (click here to learn more about our Food Safety program)

We do not publish a price list. Our focus is on the integrity and quality of the product, not the price. We do publish a monthly listing of products that are currently available on the farm. At any time, a chef can call one of our Product Specialists at 1-800-289-4644 for the prices and additional information on any of our products.

Yes. We welcome our chefs to visit the farm and take a tasting tour by appointment. We request that chefs contact their Product Specialists or our Sales Manager at 1-800-289-4644 two weeks before their planned visit.

Our customers are located all over the world! Weekly, we deliver to New York, Florida, California and all the points in between, as well as internationally! At The Chef's Garden, the products come direct from our Farm to your kitchen – no warehouses, distribution centers or middlemen. This is the truest example of Earth to Table.

We ship through Fed Ex, UPS, DHL/Airborne, Emery, Continental , US Air, United; as well as by ground with our own truck to Cleveland & the Akron-Canton area. There are also other agents that will pick the product up from the airports and expedite it to the recipient's door.

We are your direct source and do not use distributors. Instead, The Chef's Garden harvests to order. We do not keep an inventory of product! Our hand harvesting of each order results in intensity of flavor and premium shelf life, which will assist you in actually lowering your food cost and levels of waste. Each item is picked fresh and to the chef's specifications the morning of the order. Our goal is to have our product on your plate within 24 hours.

The Culinary Vegetable Institute (CVI) is a rustic culinary retreat founded by the Jones family and located in a pristine riverside setting several miles from The Chef's Garden farm. The CVI provides a unique environment for team building, learning and inspiration for America's most innovative chefs. The Lodge at CVI houses an award winning state-of-the-art kitchen facility surrounded by the finest kitchen garden imaginable. Visiting chefs and their teams experience first-hand the Earth-to-Table™ concept by using the bounty of the farm as the foundation for their experimentation and menu development. For more information about the CVI, visit culinaryvegetableinstitute.com.

The CVI is also home to Veggie U, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization committed to fostering a synergy between educational, nutritional, and agricultural goals to combat the rising epidemic of childhood obesity. Veggie U provides a classroom curriculum that teaches the Earth-to-Table™ concept to fourth graders. Teachers are supplied with all of the materials needed for hands-on study including a kit complete with seeds, soil, flats, root view boxes, grow lights, and a worm farm. These materials allow the students to see, hear, taste, feel and experience the process of planting, growing, harvesting - and eating the results! For more information about Veggie U, how you can help, or to make a tax deductible contribution, please visit veggieu.org.