Show Guide: 'The Chef's Garden'

Synopsis: The Chef’s Garden joins Farmer Lee Jones on his farm as he meets with renowned chefs to celebrate fresh produce and regenerative agriculture with aspirational, creative dishes.

In each half hour episode, The Chef’s Garden brings viewers to the farm and into its industrial kitchen, the Culinary Vegetable Institute, where Farmer Lee and his chef friends—some of the most celebrated names in the industry including Emma Bengtsson, Curtis Duffy, Jenner Tomaska, and Rachael Ray—use the inspiration from the farm to experiment and cook together. Utilizing the ingredients around them, the chefs create dishes ranging from beat granita with cured salmon and chilled corn soup to Thai spiced shepherd’s pie and crab meat stuffed burrata with roasted watermelon and tomatoes. (Courtesy fyi, 2025)

The Cast:

Production Credits:
The Chef’s Garden is produced by Free Food Studios for A+E Networks. Executive producers for Free Food Studios are Rachael Ray, Brian Flanagan, Anthony Amoia, and Sean Lee. Executive producers for A+E Networks are Teri Kennedy and Jordan Harman. A+E Networks holds worldwide distribution rights.

The Episodes:
Season One Episode Guide (fyi)
1-01 Beets With Emma Bengsston
Two Star Michelin Chef Emma Bengsston visits Farmer Lee Jones at his family farm in Huron, Ohio to pick beets in his fields, talk about growing up eating a traditional Swedish diet and her love for cooking. Then they head to the test kitchen to prepare a meal inspired by and starring their beet harvest.

1-02 Corn With Curtis Duffy
Three Michelin Star award winner and James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef of 2016, Chef Curtis Duffy is back on the farm to visit longtime friend and collaborator, Farmer Lee Jones, to pick corn and talk about his gratitude and admiration for Farmer’s work and how it’s impacted his career. Then they head to the test kitchen to prepare an explosive dish that features fresh picked corn and is as equally as inspiring as it is beautiful.