May’s Featured Farmers - Garden To Be and Vitruvian Farms

This is why I love being a chef in Madison! We are so lucky to have so many amazing farmers. With just the beginning of spring arriving we already have such an incredible bounty!

Shitake and oyster mushrooms, fresh ramps, and amazing asparagus. We brought them all in for our farm feature beginning tomorrow!

Thanks, Garden To Be and Vitruvian Farms, and the other farms you work with!!

Garden to Be

Though it’s incredibly difficult to make a living running a small farm, thanks to Scott Williams, farmer and owner of Garden To Be, more farmers are able to exclusively do what they love and what they know. Garden To Be has come a long way since it started as a five-acre vegetable farm in 2000, now working as a wholesale distribution for all the farmers who joined. Their new facility located in Fitchburg allows them to better manage the amount of food coming in.

Vitruvian Farms

After years of primarily providing vegetables and mushrooms to Madison-area restaurants and grocery stores, the farm underwent a major shift in 2020. Vitruvian Farms began to offer a much expanded CSA program and online store, with home delivery options, where community members could purchase produce grown on the farm as well as products from local farms and small businesses.

In 2023, construction was completed on a new building which included new farm operations spaces as well as an on-site farm store, The Store at Vitruvian. The Store is a space where community members can shop for produce grown right on the property, as well as over 300 products from local farmers and makers.