The Chef's Garden Plant-Based Charcuterie Box: A Celebration of Abundant Flavor

At The Chef's Garden, we believe that celebrations should be nothing short of extraordinary, and what could be more festive than a bounty of delicious, visually stunning, and wholly satisfying vegetables? Our Plant-Based Charcuterie Box may not include cured meats, but it embodies the same satisfaction and culinary delight as any classic charcuterie board. Here's a taste of what you can expect in your box.

Indulge in a vibrant array of exquisite plant-based delights with our Plant-Based Charcuterie Box. From the Petite Crudité Sampler that boasts an assortment of crisp seasonal vegetables, to the Cuke with Bloom, these mini cucumbers, perfect for snacking, and versatile Petite Potatoes, every element is carefully selected to inspire your culinary creativity. Elevate your presentation with the vibrant and flavorful Edible Mixed Flowers and enjoy a burst of earthy sweetness with our mixed Beets. Pair it all with our flavorful Root Vegetable Slices and savor freshly baked bread using Dario's Bread Mix. To add a touch of sweetness to your vegetable-centric celebration, we've collaborated with Prospect Jam Company to include one of our signature marmalades in your charcuterie box.

Elevate your gatherings with The Chef's Garden Plant-Based Charcuterie Box, a true testament to the joy and artistry of celebrating with an abundance of vibrant and flavorful vegetables.

What's Included

Included in your box: 

• Petite Crudité Sampler
• Cuke with Bloom *
  
• Petite Potatoes
• Edible Mixed Flowers 
• Beets (for Beet Hummus Recipe)
• Root Vegetable Slices
• Dario's Bread Mix
• Marmalade

Petite Crudité Sampler:
Our Crudité Sampler features an exquisite array of seasonal delights, from crisp white, dragon, and long carrots to royal purple and white turnips, and a colorful assortment of radishes, including French breakfast, cherry bomb, and daikon. Complementing these vibrant vegetables are farm-fresh leeks, white coin, and purplette onions.

Cuke with Bloom:
Indulge in the charming world of mini cucumbers, perfect for snacking, offering a fun-sized package brimming with flavor. These little cucumbers, often referred to as baby or lunchbox cukes, are a delightful addition to your plant-based charcuterie experience.

Petite Potatoes:
Our selection of the day's best potatoes spans a rich spectrum of flavors, textures, and hues. Each potato offers a unique bite of flavor and is limited only by your culinary imagination. They're a versatile addition to your plant-based charcuterie experience.

Edible Mixed Flowers:
Enhance your culinary presentation with vibrant, edible flowers that span the spectrum of flavors, from sweet to slightly bitter, and aromas, from aromatic to citrusy to herbaceous. These blooms offer a delightful array of textures, from firm to succulent, and a visual feast from fuzzy to crispy to waxy.

Beets:
Enjoy a medley of our best-of-the-day mixed beets, regeneratively farmed with care and harvested upon your order. Whether you use them to create our flavorful Beet Hummus Recipe or explore your own culinary path, these beets offer a burst of earthy sweetness.

Root Vegetable Slices:
Our Root Vegetable Slices are crafted with inspiration from our chefs, featuring flavorful and nourishing ingredients that are regeneratively farmed and hand-harvested. These slices are versatile and pair perfectly with fresh-baked bread, making them a delightful addition to your plant-based charcuterie spread.

Dario's Bread Mix:
This unique bread mix provides a convenient way to bake loaves of bread with a crispy crust, a chewy crumb, and an incredible aroma that tantalizes the senses. Close your eyes, envision the scent of bread baking, and savor every delicious moment.

Marmalade:
In collaboration with Prospect Jam Company, an artisan marmalade company in Ohio, we've created delectable jars of goodness that encapsulate the essence of our field production in its sweetest form. Your charcuterie box includes one of our signature marmalades, adding a touch of delightful sweetness to your vegetable-centric celebration.

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Our farm team chose their favorite edible flowers, and we’ve combined them with black and green teas to create custom blends that allow you to experience enticing culinary aromas while sipping your tea! By choosing the Tea Experience, you get to enjoy all five of our special blends—created in collaboration with Rare Tea Cellar—along with our herb sampler that allows you to make your own deliciously fresh herbal tea.

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.

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.

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. 

Fresh Herbal Tea Herb Sampler

Enjoy the flavor of these farm-fresh herbs from The Chef’s Garden when crafting your own freshly brewed herbal teas or to brighten and enhance your tea experience: English Mint, Lemon Balm, and Lemon Verbena. You’ll also receive a wooden stirring spoon.

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Indulge in the finest seasonal produce, delivered right to your doorstep with our Best of the Season home delivery box.

We cultivate our fields in harmony with the changing rhythms of nature, ensuring that every box showcases the peak of freshness and flavor for each season. The contents of these boxes vary based on the season and availability, providing a delightful array of vegetables and flavors, offering you a beautiful surprise with every delivery.

Looking for a thoughtful gift? The Best of the Season box is the perfect choice, ideal for family, friends, or colleagues who appreciate the very best in fresh, sustainably grown produce. Whether for special occasions or to show your appreciation, this box brings the essence of our farm directly to their door.

And for those who wish to enjoy our exceptional produce on a regular basis, our subscription service lets you effortlessly embrace the ever-changing tastes and colors of nature, conveniently delivered to your doorstep season after season. It's the perfect way to bring the farm-fresh experience to your table without the hassle of traditional grocery shopping."

Products will vary based on the season and availability. Product listed and shown for  reference only.    

Choose a box to fit your household size: 

• 2-4 people
• 4-6 people

Each box will last approximately one week, depending on your usage. 

Featured Vegetables

Your box could include:

• Greens
  
• Round Orange Carrots
  
• Root Spinach
  
• Leeks
• Kalettes
• Broccoli
  
• Butterbaby Squash
  
• Burgundy Sweet Potato
• Petite Thyme
  
• Best of the Day Microgreen 

See something in your box that is not on your Glossary? We work with local family farms in our area to share their bounty with you!

Visit How To Store Vegetables to learn how to keep your vegetables fresh longer.  And check out our Recipes for inspiration!

Health Benefits

At The Chef’s Garden nutrition goes hand-in-hand with flavorful, quality vegetables. It is so important that in 2019, we opened an on-site agricultural research facility. We study how to maximize the flavor, color and nutrition of our vegetables in order to bring the highest quality to your door. 

As a result of our regenerative farming practices, we have found that our products often contain more minerals than the USDA average! Learn more about our Health and Wellness initiatives.

Subscribe & Save

Enjoy the convenience of recurring shipments! Sign up for a recurring order to be delivered to your door as often as you'd like! Customize your delivery frequency (weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly) and you can change, pause, or cancel at any time. 

Additional discounts cannot be applied to subscription orders.       

Learn more about the perks of a Vegetable Subscription 

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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. 

Box Includes:

• Dario's Focaccia Baking Mix
• Flowerhouse Sprinkles
• Farm Gomasio
• Creamed Honey
• Signature Marmalade
• Flowerhouse Tea

Limited quantity.  

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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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Our talented team brainstormed the idea of signature marmalades as part of a process to reduce food waste—with a result that’s deliciously creative. In collaboration with Prospect Jam Company, an artisan marmalade company in Ohio we've created a collection marmalades, jams and jellies that contain ingredients that are regeneratively farmed with love at The Chef’s Garden for the maximum in flavor and nutrition.

Box Includes

• Mr. Bob's Yellow Field Tomato Marmalade
• Pepper Marmalade
• Beet Marmalade
• Carrot Marmalade
• Viola Champagne Jelly 
• Farmer's Choice

Limited quantity.  

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 our Flowerhouse Tea Party, you’ll receive all the delicious elements you need to host a tea party for friends—or to relax and enjoy the experience yourself. This box contains a jar of our Flowerhouse Tea and one of our Signature Marmalade; Dario’s Focaccio Baking Mix; and farm-fresh honey. This makes the perfect gift!

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 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.)

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.

Box Includes:

• Dario's Focaccia Baking Mix 
• Cut Honeycomb
• Signature Marmalade
• Flowerhouse Tea

Limited quantity.  

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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.

Sometimes, the simplest combinations are best, triggering marvelous memories of sitting at Grandma’s table as she pulled freshly baked bread from the oven before slathering it with fresh honey. 

Our combination of farm honey and foccasio bread allows you to share this nostalgic experience with people you love—while giving you the freedom to be fully creative with these ingredients. There are no limits! Besides being a wonderful addition to your kitchen, this also makes a perfect gift for friends and family members. 

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.

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.

Expanding the Combo

Our Farm Honey and Foccasio Bread provides all you need for the perfect honey sandwich while also providing a foundation for other variations such as cinnamon toast topped with honey. To add to the experience, consider ordering one or more of our proprietary Flowerhouse Teas; you can see five flavorful options in our Flowerhouse Tea Box. Order the set or select individual varieties from our website. 

Also take a look at our amazing signature marmalade flavors. You can see choices in our Marmalade Experience Box. Try all five or, again, select your favorites from our site. 

Box Includes:

• Dario's Focaccia Baking Mix 
• Farm Fresh Honey: creamed honey

Limited quantity.  

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Our talented team brainstormed the idea of signature marmalades as part of a process to reduce food waste—with a result that’s deliciously creative. In collaboration with Prospect Jam Company, an artisan marmalade company in Ohio we've created a collection marmalades, jams and jellies that contain ingredients that are regeneratively farmed with love at The Chef’s Garden for the maximum in flavor and nutrition.

The Marmalade Trio will contain three of the following based on availability

Carrot Cake Marmalade

Our Carrot Cake Marmalade offers up a delightful tasting experience with flavor notes of carrot cake. Picture warm baking spices with a hint of citrus. 

Beet Marmalade

Beet Marmalade made with Heirloom beets with winey, red verjus (produced from pressing unripe grapes) and tart cranberry. 

Mr. Bob’s Yellow Field Tomato Marmalade

We would only put Mr. Bob’s name on a product that was the absolute best—and that’s exactly how we’d describe this tomato marmalade. You can savor the flavor of sweet yellow tomatoes along with preserved lemon with bay and white balsamic. 

Pepper Marmalade 

Our Pepper Marmalade is deliciously simple, featuring a colorful confetti of sweet peppers that also makes this one a visual treat. Enjoy the marvelous flavor of sweet peppers captured in a jar.

Story of Our Signature Marmalades

Our talented team brainstormed the idea of signature marmalades as part of a process to reduce food waste—with a result that’s deliciously creative. Our Marmalade Trio is the perfect gift for your loved ones and an excellent addition to your pantry.

Three flavors aren’t enough? We understand! Here’s our five-jar Marmalade Experience and our seven-jar Marmalade Experience with Jam & Jelly. 

Limited quantity.  

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Step into a world of farm-fresh flavors and eco-conscious practices with the Chef's Garden Farmhouse Seasoning Box. This exquisite collection features three remarkable seasonings: Farmhouse Gomasio, Farmhouse Mustard Seasoning, and Lindera Farms Fermented Ramp Salt. These artisanal creations redefine your culinary experience with their unique flavors, versatility, and a touch of health benefits.

Farmhouse Gomasio: This is a delightful blend of regeneratively grown sesame seeds, sea salt, and spices. The Farmhouse Gomasio brings an elegant, nutty richness to your dishes, enhancing salads, roasted vegetables, and Asian-inspired cuisines. Beyond its rich flavor, sesame seeds in Gomasio are packed with nutrients like calcium, iron, and magnesium, adding a healthy touch to your meals.

Farmhouse Mustard Seasoning: Comprising regeneratively grown mustard seeds, black and white peppercorn, and aromatic spices, the Farmhouse Mustard Seasoning offers a medley of zesty and savory notes. Use it to create tantalizing marinades, spice up grilled seafood, or elevate your salad dressings. Mustard seeds provide antioxidants, while peppercorns add a dash of spice, making this seasoning not just delicious but also health-conscious.

Lindera Farms Fermented Ramp Salt: Crafted by Lindera Farms, this exquisite seasoning is a marriage of locally sourced ramps and salt, producing a complex, umami-rich flavor profile. Enhance your dishes with a pinch of this fermented ramp salt, perfect for seasoning meats, pasta, or roasted vegetables. Its ramps are not only rich in flavor but also deliver a burst of nutrients and a unique taste.

The Chef's Garden Farmhouse Seasoning Box is not only a testament to our dedication to premium, organic ingredients and sustainable farming practices but also a ticket to your own culinary adventure. Elevate your dishes, savor incredible flavors, and discover the added health benefits these seasonings bring to your kitchen. Whether you're a home cook or a professional chef, this box opens the door to endless possibilities, making every meal a masterpiece.

Box Includes:

• Farmhouse Gomasio
• Farmhouse Mustard Seasoning
• Fermented Ramp Salt
  

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Recently, the Reel Rundown named the 500 best duos of all time. Top ones include:

• John Lennon and Paul McCartney
• Tom and Jerry
• Batman and Robin

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:

• Dario’s Focaccia Baking Mix: Loaves produced with this baking mix are a gratifying marriage of crispy crust, chewy crumb, and incredible aroma—and oh-so-delicious when topped with honey. 
• Marmalade Experience with Jam & Jelly: This product contains our proprietary marmalades, jams, and jellies created in collaboration with Prospect Jam Company. Order the set or individually select your favorites from our site. 
• Flowerhouse Tea Experience: Our custom tea blends (green and black) contain ingredients from The Chef’s Garden and are made in collaboration with Rare Tea Cellar. Order the set or individually select your favorites from our site. 

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Bread and Jam

Perfect culinary pairings include peas and carrots, tomatoes sprinkled with mozzarella cheese—and, of course, fresh bread spread with delicious jam. With the Farmer Jones Farm’s bread and jam offering, you’ll enjoy the ultimate in this classic pairing. 

Here’s more information.

Dario’s Focaccia Baking Mix

With this unique bread mix, you can conveniently bake loaves of bread with a crispy crust, chewy crumb—and incredible aroma. Close your eyes, imagine the scent of bread baking, and breathe in deeply. What you imagine can come to life as you make and consume the bread.

The dry mix creates a versatile dough that allows for toppings both before and after baking, making it extremely versatile and expressive. 

Marmalade in Collaboration with Prospect Jam Company

Emily Hutton of Prospect Jam Co. brainstormed and experimented with our chef team to find exactly the right ingredients and proportions for our marmalades. The result? Optimal flavor, texture, and visual appeal, perfect for spreading over freshly baked bread.

This artisan marmalades allows the farm to reduce food waste and extend the reach of produce while creating an utterly delicious product. Emily is the ideal collaborator, too, as she intentionally inspires “unique experiences through the craft of seasonal preservation while promoting creativity and collaboration.”

Extending Your Reach

Items in this offering pair together perfectly. That said, you can also use the bread mix to make delicious muffins, wraps, flatbreads, pan and wood-fired pizza crusts, rustic batards, ciabatta, and much more. We’ll provide Dario’s recipe and clear instructions so you’ll consistently create a delicious result that will have family members say, “What are you making? It sure smells good!”

Spread the jam over pancakes and waffles, use it in thumbprint cookies and other desserts, as well as anywhere else your imagination and taste buds take you!

Limited quantity.  

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Box Includes

• Dario's Focaccia Baking Mix
• Farmer's Choice Marmalade

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Of all the memorable loaves of bread that have come from the Culinary Vegetable Institute kitchen, no other has been so widely beloved as Dario's Focaccia. It is a gratifying marriage of crispy crust, chewy crumb, and incredible aroma. Loaves are easy to produce and even easier to consume.

The dry mix contained in this box will make a versatile dough that takes well to topping both prior and post-baking. As a result, it can be as expressive as you are willing to be. It shapes well into rustic batards and stretches beautifully for something closer to ciabatta. It will also work well for pan and wood-fired type pizzas.

Of course, and most easily of all, this dry mix will produce Dario's Focaccia.

Makes two loaves. Recipe included. 

Net weight 35 oz. (1kg)

Ingredients

Ingredients:

Unbleached Hard Red Wheat, Malted Barley flour, Salt, Yeast, Ascorbic Acid

Allergens and Declarations:

Contains: Wheat

Though cross-contamination is unlikely, this product is manufactured in a facility that processes milk, egg, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, and soybeans.

Product Disclaimers:

Do not eat raw flour, dough or batter.

Meet Chef Dario

Chef Dario Torres first learned cooking skills from his grandmother who took care of him and his sister until he was fourteen while their parents worked to offer their children a better life. Even though he enjoyed cooking, he wasn't sure he wanted to be a chef. He had dreams of becoming a scientist or an engineer because of his love of science and math until he caught an episode of Master Chef on The Discovery Channel and his whole world was turned upside down. 

Smooth, silky creamed honey melts in your mouth! 

Honeybees are the hardest working creatures on our farm—and, to support the bees, we maintain 40+ beehives. We can therefore offer honey in multiple ways.  

• Small 8 oz.
• Large 32 oz.

Read more about Why Bees are Important.     

Waxy comb with silky smooth honey!

Honeybees are the hardest working creatures on our farm—and, to support the bees, we maintain 40+ beehives. We can therefore offer honey in multiple ways. 

Honeybees are the hardest working creatures on our farm—and, to support the bees, the Culinary Vegetable Institute maintains 40+ beehives. We can therefore offer whole frame honey, shipped as it exists naturally in hives. We remove a full frame, put it on a stand, and ship it to you.  

Serving the honey in its natural state not only heightens the dining experience, it provides an opportunity for your guests to better connect with the natural ingredient food world.

Read more about Why Bees are Important.  

5 oz.

Keep packaged at room temperature. Limited quantity.

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Blended Back Tea

Cranberry Hibiscus, Roselle Hibiscus, Cocoa Nib, Beet, Vanilla, Organic Regal Earl Grey

Rare Tea Cellar's Organic Regal Earl Grey is a proprietary blend of high mountain estate grown black tea imbued with Italian Bergamot oil. Amplified with vegetables, spices, and herbs The Chef's Garden and The Culinary Vegetable Institute.  

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Blended Green Tea: Parsnip, Golden Hojicha, Brown Rice, Arare, Sencha, Himalayan Tartary Buckwheat, Sorhum, Viola, Thyme, Salt.

Parsnips and Jersualem Artichokes (Sunchokes) provide pre-biotic fiber, which acts as food for the microbes in the digestive tract.

Golden Hojicha is a high-grade Japanese green tea, produced by roasting sencha leaves in a porcelain pot over charcoal, resulting in a tea with an enticing deep smoky aroma and round, mild flavor.

Green tea contains a polyphenol known as EGCG which when consumed regularly may reduce inflammation in the digestive tract.

Tartary buckwheat is a flower (not a grain, so does not contain gluten) that is used as a cover crop to help improve the quality of the soil. Tartary buckwheat is nutrient-dense and is packed with 100+ different phytonutrients, including those that help improve the immune response (and 70% of the immune system is located in the gut), and may reduce cellular aging.

Brew 1 Tbsp of tea per Cup (8 fl oz.) of water at 200ºf for 2 minutes and strain

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Fabiaceae, pronounced "fuh-bay-see-ee" is the Latin botanical genus that represents the bean family. 

Butterfly Pea Bloom, Organic African Rooibos, Anise Hyssop, Organic Camelia Sinensis.

This tea blend is almost creamy with a foundation rooted in its botanical namesake. Rooibos (red bush) is a desert shrub in the bean family grown in Africa. Its leaves are used to produce a common herbal tea. We grow butterfly peas on property for their vibrant blue infusions along with anise hyssop (a native to North America) for the bees and for our teas. Serve this tea warm or iced with a lemon wedge.

Brew 1 Tbsp for 3 minutes in 200ºf water. Brews to a blue color. For a fun color change add some lemon juice. 

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Blended Green Tea

Anise Hyssop, Verbena, Lemon Balm, Mint, Viola, Dianthus, Rare Tea Cellar Organic Green Tea

This hand picked and processed green tea from the hills just west of Hangzhou, Shejiang province, has been famous since the eighth century. It is known for its full, round flavor, unique nutty taste, pleasant jade-color, and wonderful aroma. Amplified with flowers and herbs from The Chef's Garden and The Culinary Vegetable institute.   

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