Ep. 66: The Chef's Garden - A Veritable Wonderland of Vegetables

PLANTSTRONG Podcast

Rip Esselstyn

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Medicine, Nutrition

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Recently, we were introduced to a produce farm just outside Cleveland, Ohio, and quickly learned that this longstanding family-run business is as passionate about growing vegetables as we are about eating them. So we flew to the Chef's Garden farm, so we could film this magical visit and let you experience it firsthand with us.

The Chef's Garden has been delivering specialty products with optimum shelf life, quality, flavor, and nutrition direct from the farm to the world's most discriminating chefs for over 30 years.

This vast playground of vegetables is also host to the Culinary Vegetable Institute, which provides the world’s most forward-thinking and creative chefs with a place to exchange knowledge, experiment with new ideas, and discover cooking and growing techniques using the canvas of the most flavorful, colorful and nutritious vegetables on the planet.

While there, we learned so much about regenerative farming—what it is, what it means for our future, and why we should care. Farmer Lee and Bob's passion was contagious and we are excited to share it with you.

Their mission, through their beautiful growing techniques, is to deliver the freshest, most nutrient-dense, tasty vegetables directly to your door, and as Farmer Lee says, "Healthy soil makes healthy vegetables, which makes healthy people."

We're proud to support this family farm and hope you will too. Join us for our Mystery Valentines Day Dinner for two complete with fresh produce delivered directly to your door from The Chef's Garden.

Episode and PLANTSTRONG Resources:

Chef's Garden Website and Social Channels
Join our Mystery Valentines Day Dinner with Chef's Garden - All the Ingredients Delivered Directly to Your Door.
PLANTSTRONG Challenge Starts January 9th, 2021
PLANTSTRONG Foods - Order your favorites!
PLANTSTRONG Meal Planner - Discover the easy way to eat PLANTSTRONG
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0:00.0	You know, looking at the soil and understanding what's happening with the soil.
0:06.0	If you get the soil in balance and the soil is healthy and you put healthy plants into that,
0:12.0	we have a saying, healthy soil, healthy vegetables, healthy people.
0:16.0	And that's in its simplest form, but that's really in a nutshell what it's really all about.
0:23.0	Season 3 of the Plant Strong Podcast explores those Galileo moments where you seek to understand the real truth around your health
0:39.0	and dare to see the world through a different lens.
0:43.0	This season we honor those courageous seekers who are paving the way for you and me.
0:51.0	So grab your telescope, point it towards your future and let's get plants strong together.
0:57.0	If you've been following us for a while, you know that I'm a big believer in eating plants, plain and simple.
1:09.0	I have never put a huge emphasis on organic versus conventional, and I've never recommended that you shop in the fancy stores in order to get your produce.
1:20.0	The only thing that I really focus on is urging people to crowd out all the animal products, processed oils, and the junk foods, and to really fill up your plates with as many whole unprocessed plant-based foods as possible.
1:36.0	Well, this past Thanksgiving, my mother sent each of her kids the most incredible box of Thanksgiving produce.
1:48.0	I have ever experienced in my life no joke.
1:53.0	You know that I have dedicated more than 30 plus years to eating plants and I take a lot of joy in discovering quality produce, but this box blew my mind.
2:05.0	The leafy greens, the variety of tubers, the beets, the carrots, all the different colors.
2:15.0	I've never seen anything like this, and remember I worked at Whole Foods Market Global headquarters for over 10 years.
2:23.0	So I've seen a lot of quality produce in my day, and in addition the microgreens in this box, and to be honest, I've never been a huge fan of microgreens.
2:34.0	I thought they were just some trendy spa food that could never compete with the heft of some of my go-to's like Swiss charred collards and kale.
2:45.0	But these microgreens were over the top amazing on a lot of different levels, and I've learned a lot about microgreens.
2:57.0	But I just had to find out more about this little farm who sent me this box of vegetables.
3:04.0	Well, they're called the Chef's Garden, and get this on their pastoral property is a state of the art chef-led research kitchen called the Culinary Vegetable Institute.
3:16.0	And as it turns out, it's not a little farm.
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