Treat Dad with with our curated experiences that highlight the flavorful, farm-fresh vegetables, as well as edible flowers and herbs we grow at The Chef’s Garden, creatively used in products developed by The Culinary Vegetable Institute.
Farm Pantry Experience
We've gathered some of our delicious pantry favorites for you in this collection.
Flowerhouse Tea
Imagine a flavorful black or green tea—and then envision one containing our farm’s favorite edible flowers. This custom blend creates a true taste sensation that also offers up unique culinary aromas. This box box will include one of our proprietary tea blends. (If you’d like to try all five, order our Flowerhouse Tea Box.)
Signature Marmalade
We’ve partnered with Prospect Jam Company, an artisan marmalade company in Ohio, to create delicious jars of goodness. We’ve created five signature marmalades, each allowing you to experience our farm’s field production in the sweetest ways. This box will contain one jar of our signature marmalades. (If you’d like to try all five, order our Marmalade Experience Box.)
Gomasio Seasoning
Our delicious gomasio seasoning contains toasted sesame seeds, delicate kosher salt flakes, and a special blend of herbs grown with love at The Chef’s Garden. Plum sorrel and bee pollen play marvelous supporting roles with our gomasio seasoning working well on sweet and savory dishes alike.
Flowerhouse Sprinkles
This unique blend of Flowerhouse Sprinkles contain dried edible flowers grown and hand-picked at The Chef’s Garden. These dried blooms are ideal to use in salads, soups, dips, butter, dressings, and desserts—adding a pop of color and delightful texture. Use in baking, to top a main dish, or in your favorite beverages.
Dario’s Focaccia Baking Mix
This dry mix offers up memorable loaves of bread that are a gratifying marriage of crispy crust, chewy crumb, and incredible aroma. This baking mix allows you to conveniently make a versatile dough that’s perfect to top before and after baking—and the result can be as expressive as your imagination allows you to be.
Farm-Fresh Honey
The bees we tend with love on our grounds are actually the hardest working members of our farm. To support the bees, we maintain more than forty beehives. As they fly around, they—just like people—gravitate to their favorite blooms. This makes the farm fresh honey we offer a truly unique expression of our farm.
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Honeybee Experience Box
When we say that the honeybees on our grounds are the hardest working creatures, we aren’t kidding. A good percentage of the food that nourishes us wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the honeybee—and the significant role that this beautiful creature plays in pollination. So, with this product, we celebrate the honeybee in four different delicious ways.
Cut Honeycomb
We tend more than forty beehives at the Culinary Vegetable Institute, and both our cut comb and creamed honey come from their diligent efforts. With our cut honeycomb, you can serve honey in its natural state, allowing your family and friends (including children) to better connect with the world of natural food ingredients.
Creamed Honey
Meanwhile, our smooth and silky creamed honey melts in your mouth! The Culinary Vegetable Institute team takes raw honey from our hives and then whips this into its oh-so-ethereal form: elegant, light, and delicious. Spread on toast or cheese, and otherwise use this flavorful product wherever your imagination takes you.
Flowerhouse Tea
Our farm team selected their favorite edible flowers—ones that may be our bees’ favorites, as well!—and collaborated with Rare Tea Cellar to create marvelous custom tea blends. In the Honey Experience, you’ll get one variety of this incredible tea, either green or black. If you’d like to see the ingredients of each of our five proprietary teas, please look at our Flowerhouse Tea Box.
Edible Mixed Flowers
Top your fragrant cup of tea with edible flowers grown at The Chef’s Garden and add them to your salads, desserts, and cocktails—even your main dishes. Flavors of these edible blooms range from sweet to slightly bitter, herbaceous, aromatic, and citrus. Delightful textures that they add to your drinks and dishes include firm to soft to succulent, and from fuzzy to crispy to waxy.
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Flowerhouse Tea Trio
Flowerhouse Tea Trio
Edible flowers add extra layers of flavor and aroma to culinary dishes with intriguing variations among them. Our team has chosen their favorite blooms and herbs and combined them with black and green teas to create custom tea blends that allow you to experience these culinary aromas in your afternoon tea!
The Flowerhouse Tea trio will contain three of our teas, depending on availability.
Rooibos Tea Fabiaceae
Enjoy this borderline-creamy specialty tea rooted in its botanical namesake. This luscious tea contains organic African Rooibos along with butterfly pea blooms (the latter grown on our grounds for their vibrant blue infusions)—plus anise hyssop that’s grown for the bees and our teas. Serve this tea warm or iced with a lemon wedge.
Lamiaceae Green Tea
This handpicked green tea—from the hills just west of Hangzhou, Zhejiang province—has been famous since the eighth century. Known for its round and full flavor and uniquely nutty taste, it features a wonderful aroma and pleasant jade color—and is amplified by our own flowers and herbs: anise hyssop, verbena, lemon balm, mint, viola, and dianthus.
Oryza Green Tea
High-grade Japanese green tea (golden hojicha) offers up a deep smoky aroma and round, mild flavor achieved by roasting sencha leaves over charcoal in a porcelain pot. This amazing tea also contains parsnip, brown rice, arare, sencha, Himalayan tartary buckwheat, sorghum, viola, thyme, and salt.
Malvaceae Black Tea
Savor the amazing aroma of organic Regal Earl Gray in this proprietary tea blend. Containing high mountain estate grown black tea, it’s imbued with Italian Bergamot oil. This flavorful tea contains vegetables, spices, and herbs from our grounds: cranberry hibiscus, roselle hibiscus, cocoa nib, beet, and vanilla.
Rutaceae Black Tea
Picture high mountain black tea seamlessly blended with five types of lemon leaves and two of lemon peel—and then imagine bachelor buttons, cukes with blooms, and lemongrass added to the delectable mix. What you have is our Rutaceae Black Tea.
Honeybee Duo
Recently, the Reel Rundown named the 500 best duos of all time. Top ones include:
We’d like to toss out another great one: cut honeycomb and creamed honeycomb. Both products are included in our Honeybee Duo. In each, you’ll benefit from the hard work of the honeybees that we tend on our grounds with love—and each is incredibly delicious.
Cut Honeycomb
We tend more than forty beehives at the Culinary Vegetable Institute, and both our cut comb and creamed honey come from their diligent efforts. With our cut honeycomb, you can serve honey in its natural state, allowing your family and friends to better connect with the world of natural food ingredients, including children.
Creamed Honey
Meanwhile, our smooth and silky creamed honey melts in your mouth! The Culinary Vegetable Institute team takes raw honey from our hives and then whips this into its oh-so-ethereal form: elegant, light, and delicious. Spread on toast or cheese, and otherwise use this flavorful product wherever your imagination takes you.
Take the Honey Duo to the Next Level
We’d like to recommend more of our unique products, ones that pair especially well with our Honeybee Duo:
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Sauerkraut
Sauerkraut
The Chef’s Garden has collaborated with Wake Robin Foods to bring you this classically delicious treat using our regenerative farmed vegetables and Wake Robin’s proprietary fermentation recipe.
This authentic, traditional sauerkraut is made with regeneratively farmed cabbage and sea salt. It's really that simple! Use it in your favorite recipe or straight out of the jar - it offers a delectable flavor and crunch.
Reduce Food Waste in Delicious Ways
Ismail Samad of Wake Robin Foods is also the co-founder of The Gleanery restaurant in Putney, Vermont and director of the East Cleveland non-profit organization, Loiter. He shares a passion in common with The Chef’s Garden: to reduce food waste to as low as possible.
This partnership allows us to more fully use everything we’ve regeneratively grown with love, using the veggies at their best and fullest potential.
Benefits of Fermentation
This is one of the safest food preservation techniques, preserving the most nutrients.
