“I'm a dirt farmer,“ says Farmer Lee Jones of the Culinary Vegetable Institute at the Chef's Garden in Milan, Ohio, dressed in his trademark denim overalls and red bowtie. “We get to grow vegetables and our goal is to grow the most flavorful, nutritious, sexiest vegetables on the planet. And we get to grow them for some of the greatest chefs in the world.“
“I've been a farmer all my life and I can't think of doing anything else.“
For over 35 years, the Chef’s Garden has provided specialty produce direct from the farm to some of the world's most renowned chefs. Under the guidance of Farmer Lee Jones and his brother Bob Jones, Jr. – and before them, their father, Bob Jones, Sr., – the Chef's Garden uses regenerative farming techniques along with innovative technology to stay on the forefront of the produce industry. The family farm grows hundreds of varieties of nutritious, long-lasting, high-quality, and sometimes rare, vegetables.
