Lost Glove Garden

Now in their 6th growing season, Chefs Rich and Kate have been swapping kitchen clogs for muddy boots, building Lost Glove Garden, their organic farm tucked into the Chester County countryside. What began as an exercise in culinary philosophy and an extension of creative life now helps supply Vedge with intense flavorful heirloom vegetables, herbs, flowers and fruits  - chosen not for yield, but for character, flavor and freshness. 

Lost Glove is about the whole process of growing: watching weather, working soil, composting, harvesting, breaking down and learning from the land in the quiet off season. It also shapes how Rich and Kate approach food. For years, their main culinary inspirations came from the great food cultures of the world and how Chefs present and celebrate these traditions.  But now the obsession is focused on the plants themselves. What makes the sweetest Thumbelina carrots, the ripest San Marzanos, the crunchiest Muncher cukes and the juiciest Latham raspberries. 

Vedge was born on the concept of its "Dirt List" of farm-to-table dishes. Lost Glove goes a step further by giving the Chefs a literal hand in the dirt and real time snapshot of seasonality. It's also a "happy place" with some of the best sunsets and fireside cookouts - an extension of Vedge hospitality by hosting intimate farm dinners on occasion. It's a slower and more intimate approach to food that's rooted in sustainability and appreciation for ingredients, pushing Vedge beyond just "a vegetable restaurant" to a whole experience, deeply connecting people to a sense of place throughout the seasons.

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