The Chef’s Garden® practices Sustainable Agriculture (sometimes referred to as Beyond Organic) What does that mean and how does it relate to taste?
Our farming methods allow our products to grow naturally to achieve optimum flavor and nutrient levels. Sustainable agriculture is a broad spectrum approach to natural farming. Our sustainable agriculture system allows us to provide you the optimum in flavor, yet not ruin the land or contaminate the people, environment or ozone. In this type of system, agriculture can survive and thrive long term. Conventional farming is a mining process in which each year the soils are depleted of vital nutrients. However, sustainable agriculture is a building of the soil year after year to make it better. Organic or certified organic stands for some of the same things, but organic means that a product is grown without the use of chemicals or pesticides that could harm you … period. Sustainable agriculture, or Beyond Organic, is broader conceptually. Organic is the elimination of chemicals and synthetic fertilizers from the process, and while that removes the bad elements, we believe it is not a compl