You have heard many times that Essentials Café is a Pay What You Can Café. We are also, as much as possible, a “Garden to Table” Café.
In keeping with the Café’s mission to provide healthy, nutritious food, our garden and compost team seeks to supply the café kitchens with herbs and vegetables throughout the growing season.
We also care for our café guests in a more intangible, long-term ways by paying attention to the well-being of our planet.
Our produce does not travel around the world leaving a large carbon footprint. Instead, it comes from the backyard of the Café
where we have garden plots in front of and beside the garage and from a larger garden space just .6 miles away behind the historic Widow’s House on Church Street.
We plan and organize the plants in our garden beds using the Square Foot Garden method and have moved toward a no-till approach to gardening.
