Chef’s Garden in Huron County is one of the region’s lesser-known culinary treasures. It produces sustainably grown specialty crops, including vegetables, herbs, microgreens and edible flowers, which it provides to top chefs and restaurants across the country. In normal seasons, it’s Culinary Vegetable Institute also offers special dinners and events, although that’s not looking likely this season.
But you don’t have to be a professional chef to sample some of their distinctive offerings. Anyone can go online and order boxes of various sizes and mixes of items for home delivery including a best of the season box, an anti-aging mix, a detoxification mix, an optimal health mix and an immunity box. You can also get a 12-box subscription, or try an introductory box, a smaller version of the best of the season box, for only $59. Go here to see their current offerings.
Chef’s Garden promises that its home delivery boxes feature “world-class, cutting-edge food safety procedures,” with 112 daily standard operating procedures followed during growing, processing and packaging, three cleaning cycles instead of usual end-of-the-day one, and two bonus procedures.