#FathersDayGiftGuide - Gourmet Produce and More with the Farm Experience Box from Farmer Jones Farm!

  *DISCLOSURE* Thank you to Farmer Jones Farm at The Chef's Garden for providing product samples in order to facilitate this post.  All thoughts are strictly my own. 

In my opinion, food always makes a great gift, especially fresh from the garden produce.  If you don't have a garden of your own, Farmer Jones Farm has got you covered!  Whether you want to give the gift of beautiful, healthy produce or you are looking for a source of delicious, fresh produce for your own table, they are sure to have something that will make your taste buds happy!

Farmer Jones Farm offers so many great fresh, seasonal items as well as handmade gifts that are sure to be a hit this Father's Day and beyond!  You can buy items a la carte or get a seasonal box of goodies shipped straight to Dad's door.  With the box, Dad will receive a selection of seasonal, nutrient-dense, flavor-rich food that will revolutionize the kitchen. As soon as Farmer Jones Farm receives your order, they head to the field, harvest your produce, and get it on its way to you. It’s like having your own garden, but without the work.  Think of them as your own personal farmer!

You can 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. You can choose the box size that works best for your family:

Small - Best for 1-2 people for approximately one week.

Medium - Best for 3-4 people for approximately one week.  

They also have plenty of one-time boxes that make perfect gifts.  Depending upon the season, the farmer’s market delivery box may contain a mix of fresh lettuce and greens, a mix of root crop, potatoes, cruciferous, sweet potatoes, and the best microgreens and herbs.     

Check out what you get in the gourmet Farm Experience Box;

Baby Rainbow Swiss Chard

Gorgeous, colorful Swiss chard!

Baby Root Spinach

This spinach starts off sweet tasting, then finishes with nutty-buttery flavor. 

Nasturtium Flowers

Bright, bold and pleasantly spicy!

Citrus Lace

An ornately shaped ingredient with a bright, citrusy zest and flavor notes of tangerine. This citrus lace, which is high in fiber and vitamin C.

Mixed Potatoes

Deliciously farm-fresh small mixed potatoes offer up flavors ranging from rich to mild, in textures from firm to soft. You’ll receive the best of the day’s harvest in a mix of round potatoes in colors that can include yellow, beet-red, pink or purple. 

Petite Super Food Blend

  

This blend may include watercress, bulls blood, parsley, mustard, arugula, dandelion, and chives. 

Leaf Sampler

This edible leaf mixtures provide marvelous punches of flavor, plus added textures and hues to your dishes. Leaf samplers can include the following: a variety of shiso leaves, plus root beer leaves, variegated nasturtium leaves, hibiscus leaves, purple sweet potato leaves and petite kinome leaves.

Pea Tendrils

You’ll appreciate the mildly sweet, earthy flavor of fresh pea tendrils, flavoring that is true to raw pea grown fresh on the farm. The pea tendril texture is incredibly tender and buttery, with the tendrils pulled apart from leaves or kept whole. 

Petite Salad Sensation

This delicious mix contains the best microgreens of the day, ones with flavors that range from peppery to grassy, and from sweet to buttery—and everywhere in between. Textures in our Salad Sensation® run the entire gamut from soft to crisp, with each farm-fresh microgreen full of flavor and nutrition.

Petite Crudite

Carrots include white, dragon, and long varieties. Plus, this veggie sampler includes royal purple and white turnips, and French breakfast, cherry bomb, and daikon radishes. You’ll also receive fresh leeks and white coin and purplette onions.   

Ultra Mixed Carrot

Colorful, sweet and crunchy!

Candy Striped Beets

Sweet and beautifully striped, perfect for roasting after marinating with citrus zest, garlic, scallion, vinegar, and plenty of salt.

Jerusalem Artichokes

Clearwater Jerusalem artichokes are incredibly sweet with absolutely no starch. Their unique structure makes them even more versatile than potatoes. Nutty and crunchy when raw, they taste like sweet kettle cooked chips when fried and are perfect for dessert when caramelized. Blanched, they gain the texture of undercooked potatoes, perfect for frying afterwards. They’re also delicious pureed with milk and butter; roasted, and charred, giving them brown sugar flavor.

The gourmet Farm Experience also includes:

Marmalade

One of The Chef’s Garden's newest collaborations is with Prospect Jam Company, an artisan jam and marmalade company located in Ohio.  They offer a great line of jams using the freshest produce.  We love these!  We've tried all of the flavors and they go great on toast or biscuits for a breakfast bursting with garden fresh flavor!

Cut Honeycomb

Waxy comb with silky smooth honey!

Flowerhouse Rooibos Tea Fabiaceae  

Butterfly Pea Bloom, Organic African Rooibos, Anise Hyssop, Organic Camelia Sinensis. Serve this tea warm or iced with a lemon wedge.

 

Flowerhouse Soap

The same beautiful flowers and herbs used in chef’s recipes are now available as part of the Blossom Bar Soap: viola, tuberose, mica clay. Hand made in Amish country, it uses the violas that are grown with love on our grounds. 

Market Tote

Perfect for shopping, picnics, or grocery trips. Lightweight, yet sturdy enough to keep contents safe and secure. This tote features The Chef's Garden philosophy on growing vegetables slowly and gently in full accord with nature.

Another great gift idea for those home chef's on your gift list is this lovely cookbook, which also comes with the Farm Experience Box:

The Chef's Garden: A Modern Guide to Common and Unusual Vegetables

About the book:

Near the shores of Lake Erie is a family-owned farm with a humble origin story that has become the most renowned specialty vegetable grower in America. After losing their farm in the early 1980s, a chance encounter with a French-trained chef at their farmers' market stand led the Jones family to remake their business and learn to grow unique ingredients that were considered exotic at the time, like microgreens and squash blossoms. 

They soon discovered chefs across the country were hungry for these prized ingredients, from Thomas Keller in Napa Valley to Daniel Boulud in New York City. Today, they provide exquisite vegetables for restaurants and home cooks across the country.

The Chef's Garden grows and harvests with the notion that every part of the plant offers something unique for the plate. From a perfect-tasting carrot, to a tiny red royal turnip, to a pencil lead-thin cucumber still attached to its blossom, The Chef's Garden is constantly innovating to grow vegetables sustainably and with maximum flavor. It's a Willy Wonka factory for vegetables.

In this guide and cookbook, The Chef's Garden, led by Farmer Lee Jones, shares with readers the wealth of knowledge they've amassed on how to select, prepare, and cook vegetables. Featuring more than 500 entries, from herbs, to edible flowers, to varieties of commonly known and not-so-common produce, this book will be a new bible for farmers' market shoppers and home cooks. With 100 recipes created by the head chef at The Chef's Garden Culinary Vegetable Institute, readers will learn innovative techniques to transform vegetables in their kitchens with dishes such as Ramp Top Pasta, Seared Rack of Brussels Sprouts, and Cornbread-Stuffed Zucchini Blossoms, and even sweet concoctions like Onion Caramel and Beet Marshmallows.

The future of cuisine is vegetables, and Jones and The Chef's Garden are on the forefront of this revolution.

My thoughts:

This cookbook is gorgeous!  It is full of really great information on amazing produce and, of course, tons of superb recipes to help elevate your menu plan with the help of those lovely ingredients!  It is a true treasure trove for anyone who enjoys cooking.

What a fantastic assortment of gift ideas that can be purchased separately or together in the Farm Experience Box!  We are super impressed with the freshness and variety of all of the veggies! By eating wholesome foods, Mother Nature will provide you and your family with vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and fiber.  Plus, as a result of Farmer Jones Farm's regenerative farming practices, they have found that their products can contain up to 200 to 500% more mineral content than the USDA average!  You'd be hard-pressed to beat that!

Give the gift of beautiful and nutritious home grown garden-fresh produce and goodies from Farmer Jones Farm at The Chef's Garden this Father's Day!

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