About the Article Sara’s Table started business in November of 2002.  We recently celebrated these past 20 years with a ribbon cutting and party.  It was a wonderful two days of seeing friends and neighbors who have been with us these years.  Brielle Bredsten of the Duluth News Tribune interviewed us and our employees and […]

I’ve thought for a while that I need to write something for Sara’s 20th anniversary – haven’t spoken to you all since the beginning of Covid - but I’ve been stuck about what to say. So please, bear with me if this writing is a bit unformed. Maybe you know that as a business we […]

by Rita Bergstedt, Head Chester Gardens Gardener The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby – how could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is […]

by Rita Bergstedt, Head Chester Gardens Gardener I don’t know who wrote these words so I don’t know who to credit, but when I saw them I knew it was the total and complete truth. “Anyone who thinks gardening begins in the spring and ends in the fall is missing the best part of the year […]

As a Chef all summer long I play with a bounty of vegetables that my farmers send to me. Each week I await the phone call from one of my many farmer friends, John, Sara, Harvey and scribble down the list of possible vegetables I could get for the coming week. It is almost like […]