The Chef’s Garden

Specialties

We grow and ship gourmet veggies, herbs, greens, micros heirlooms direct from our far to your kitchen door.

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Choosing The Chef’s Garden sustainable family farm to grow for you can also help to grow your business. No matter what segment of the culinary industry you’re in, our products will bring the right value to your kitchen and the right message to your customers.

Restaurants

Banquet

Resorts and Spas

Pastry

Mixology

History

Established in 1980.

When this story began — some 30 years ago, not far from the shores of Lake Erie — Bob Jones could be found tinkering with an old John Deere tractor, designing modifications that would increase the efficiency of field production on his family’s farm.

Every week, Bob and his two sons, Lee and Bobby, harvested and packed produce to take to the Cleveland farmers’ markets. They also sold their produce daily from a stand in the front yard of their farm home.

In the 1980s, after a significant loss of crops following a severe hailstorm threatened their survival in agriculture, Lee Jones met a chef who was interested in purchasing squash blossoms. As they rebuilt, the family made a decision to focus on the needs of chefs.

Conventional farming that emphasized high yield over flavor was out and growing responsibly for quality, instead of quantity, was the Jones family’s new direction. A world of microgreens, microgreen herbs, heirloom vegetables, specialty

Meet the Business Owner

Farmer Lee J.

Business Owner

Perpetually clad in his trademark overalls and a red bowtie, Farmer Lee Jones is a pioneer of the sustainable agricultural movement who continues to keep The Chef’s Garden on the cutting edge of the produce business. His family’s 300-​acre vegetable farm in Huron, Ohio grows the best-​tasting and most nutritious specialty vegetables herbs and micro greens in the world. The family lives by a commitment to producing food that looks good, tastes good and is good for you.

Farmer Lee Jones and the passionate team members at The Chef’s Garden harvest daily from their «growing inventory» of vegetables, herbs and greens, and ship them direct from the farm to restaurants around the world. As a small part of a chef’s culinary team, the farm is dedicated to providing the safest, most flavorful and nutritious ingredients possible by using sustainable agricultural methods.