Farmer Lee Jones, best known for his overalls and bowtie, has long been addressed as “farmer to the stars,” regularly providing produce to world-renowned chefs, like Jose Andres, Wolfgang Puck, and Julia Child. He currently grows more than 600 varieties of vegetables, microgreens, and herbs for the world’s top chefs, hotels, & restaurants.
José Andrés’ Favorite Farmer: Lee Jones
He’s a wealth of knowledge about vegetable nutrition and can comment on topics such as new veggies to experience for the holidays, in-season vegetables to add to your shopping list, and how to pick your produce like a farmer.
He was recently featured on the TODAY Show & Rachael Ray discussing the importance of well-grown vegetables and that understanding your veggies’ growth process, lifespan, and travel history are key!
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While Farmer Lee’s focus is growing the best vegetables while giving back to the land, he has expanded his passion to including Farmer Jones Farm Home Vegetable Delivery– bringing chef-tier ingredients to the home, The Chef’s Garden– a cookbook & vegetable guide, and The Culinary Vegetable Institute– a foodie bucket list item where many top chefs have trained. His story as a farmer has also been created into a documentary currently making its rounds within the film festival circuits.
