The Cook's Garden
Seeds & Supplies for the New American
Kitchen Garden
As many of you who have been with us over the
years know, we began nearly twenty years ago as market gardeners
here in Vermont selling organically grown specialty vegetables to
fine restaurants. Our signature product was a mixture of hard to
find European and Asian salad greens we called Mesclun, after the French
colloquial term for mixture. Then we opened a retail farm stand
and organic garden center. We began selling seed because many of
our customers only visited on the weekends, and they wanted to be
able to grow some of our specialties in their own gardens at
home. They understood that with the right seed and a bit of
attention they could have a garden that provided them with
vegetables and flowers far more exciting, and more healthy than
what they could find in their local supermarkets their own
Cook's Garden. If you'd like to visit our trial and display
gardens next to Gardener's
Supply Company at the Intervale in Burlington, Vermont, here's a map.
Over time, these incidental sales gave birth to a
listing, then a catalog, and now this web site, offering the
latest in seeds and supplies for
kitchen gardeners, and our Heirloom
Tomato and Pepper Site, with a hundred tried and true
favorites for every cuisine and climate. In the years since, we
have scoured the world, looking for the consummate vegetable
varieties for various cuisines: the
ultimate pesto basil from Italy, heirloom
melons from France, pac-choi
from Japan and leeks from England to
name just a few. We developed strong relationships with growers
of the famous Walla Walla onions,
and certified organic seed potato
producers in Maine, we walked the cut
flower fields of Holland with breeders and seed producers to
choose the best possible cut flowers for the table, all to help
you have the ultimate kitchen garden. With this site, we want to
complete the circle by providing a source of convenient, comprehensive information to
help you with your ongoing quest to bring the best to the
table.We hope you'll join us!
Ellen & Shepherd Ogden
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This page last
updated on 20 May 1997.