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Real ingredients. Always. Every Garden Infuzions blend is made exclusively with real herbs and spices. No artificial flavorings. No extracts. No shortcuts. What you taste is exactly what went in.

• 200+ Original Blends: From Philly Cheesesteak to Morocco Blend to Holiday Harvest — most are completely original recipes developed in-house.
• Handcrafted in Small Batches: Every bottle is made by hand, not mass-produced. Quality and consistency are built into the process from the start.
• Two-Person Quality Process: Tom ("The Herb Nerd") develops every recipe. Kim ("The Palate") approves every blend before it's bottled. Nothing ships without passing both.
• Versatile by Design: These oils are built for real kitchens — marinades, grilling, baking, salad dressings, bread dipping, and gourmet entertaining.

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Tom Chilton — "The Herb Nerd": Tom is the creative engine behind every Garden Infuzions blend. A self-taught culinary experimenter, he researches ingredients, tests combinations, and develops every new infusion from scratch. His first creation — Philly Cheesesteak Infused Olive Oil — became the founding concept of the entire brand.

Kim Chilton — "The Palate": Kim is the quality gatekeeper for every blend. Her instinct for balance and flavor ensures that only the very best oils make it into a bottle. Her excitement during a visit to a specialty olive oil tasting shop was the spark that started Garden Infuzions.

Tom and Kim began their journey with a freeze-dried candy business, selling at craft shows and local shops. Everything changed after a visit to a specialty olive oil and balsamic tasting shop, where Kim's enthusiasm sparked a new direction.

Inspired, Tom dove into researching herbs, spices, and infusion techniques. His first experiment became the brand's signature creation: Philly Cheesesteak Infused Olive Oil.

From that one idea, Garden Infuzions has grown to over 200 original blends, now shipping to kitchens across the United States — with plenty more still to come.

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Tom Chilton is the kind of person who can't leave well enough alone — and Garden Infuzions exists because of it. A Pennsylvania native, Tom isn't a cook by nature — he's an experimenter. He's driven by one thing: figuring out how ingredients work and how flavors come together. It usually starts with a single idea. From there, he builds a recipe from scratch, tests it, refines it, and keeps pushing until it's dialed in specifically for infusion.

He has no formal culinary degree. What he has instead is something harder to teach: an instinct for flavor pairing and an obsessive drive to make every blend work exactly the way it should.

Before Garden Infuzions, Tom and his wife Kim ran a freeze-dried candy business, selling at craft shows and local markets across the region. They were good at it. But when a visit to a specialty olive oil and balsamic tasting shop sparked a new idea, Tom did what he always does — he dove in headfirst. He began researching olive oils, studying herbs and spices, and teaching himself the craft of culinary infusion from the ground up.

His first creation wasn't a safe one. It wasn't a classic herb blend or a simple garlic infusion. It was a Philly Cheesesteak — one of the most iconic, specific, beloved regional flavors in American food culture — captured in a bottle of olive oil. It worked. Not just as a novelty, but as a genuinely useful, genuinely delicious cooking oil.

Today, Tom has developed more than 200 unique infused olive oil blends — completely original formulations. Every herb is real. Every spice is real. Artificial flavorings have never had a place in his kitchen, and they never will.

Tom is available for media interviews, product demonstrations, and culinary conversations.

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If Tom is the creative force behind Garden Infuzions, Kim Chilton is the reason every bottle that leaves the kitchen is worth opening. A Pennsylvania native with a lifelong passion for food and flavor, Kim serves as the quality gatekeeper for every blend in the collection — and nothing gets bottled without her approval.

Kim's role sounds simple: taste everything, approve only the best. In practice, it requires a refined palate, an honest instinct, and the confidence to send a blend back to the drawing board when it's not quite there yet. After more than 30 years alongside Tom, she knows his creative process better than anyone — and she knows the difference between a good idea and a great one.

It was also Kim who started it all. Her excitement during a visit to a specialty olive oil tasting shop was the moment that changed the direction of their lives. She didn't just inspire the idea — she became the standard it must meet.

Tom and Kim have been partners in life and in business for more than 30 years. Pennsylvania born and raised, they built Garden Infuzions the same way they've built everything — together, from scratch, with no outside backing and no shortcuts. They are self-taught entrepreneurs who learned by doing, adjusted when things didn't work, and kept going when they did.

What began as a side experiment after years in the craft show world has grown into a nationally shipping culinary brand with 200+ original products. The story of Garden Infuzions is ultimately their story: two people who love food, love flavor, and love making something they're genuinely proud of.

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Nobody plans to start an olive oil company. Tom and Kim Chilton certainly didn't. They were Pennsylvania born and raised, self-taught entrepreneurs with a successful freeze-dried candy business, a loyal following at craft shows, and absolutely no reason to change direction. Then came the tasting shop.

During a visit to a specialty olive oil and balsamic shop, something shifted. Kim moved from bottle to bottle, tasting, delighting, asking questions. Tom watched her light up and started asking questions of his own — not just about the oils on the shelf, but about what was possible. What combinations haven't been tried yet? What flavors were missing? What would he make if he started from scratch? He went home and got to work.

Tom is not a trained chef. He's something arguably more useful: a deeply curious person who loves food, respects ingredients, and refuses to settle for "good enough." He began reading everything he could find about olive oil — how it's pressed, how it carries flavor, how herbs and spices behave differently when introduced to oil versus heat versus time.

His first experiment wasn't a safe one. It was a Philly Cheesesteak — one of the most iconic, specific, beloved regional flavors in American food culture — captured in a bottle of olive oil. It worked. Not just as a novelty, but as a genuinely useful, genuinely delicious cooking oil. Tom brought it to Kim — "The Palate" — and she gave it her approval. Garden Infuzions had its first product. And more importantly, it had its philosophy: bold ideas, real ingredients, nothing artificial, ever.

One blend became ten. Ten became fifty. Fifty became more than two hundred. Tom approached each new creation the way he approached the first — with curiosity and without shortcuts. He drew inspiration from global cuisines, from comfort food memories, from the herb garden and the spice rack and the question "what if?" Blends like Morocco Blend and Holiday Harvest emerged alongside dozens of herb-forward and internationally inspired varieties, each one developed from scratch and evaluated with the same rigor as the original.

The process has never changed. Tom develops. Kim evaluates. If it doesn't meet her standard, it goes back. If it does, it earns a place in the collection. More than 95% of Garden Infuzions' 200+ blends are completely original formulations.

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Garden Infuzions began selling at local vendor shows in early 2025, building a following one taste at a time. That summer, the brand opened a permanent stand at the Fairgrounds Farmer's Market in Reading, Pennsylvania — a bustling destination market home to more than 60 merchants — where customers quickly became regulars, and regulars became loyal fans. Word spread through craft shows and select regional retailers, and the brand that had started as a kitchen experiment was becoming something real.

In January 2026, Garden Infuzions began shipping its full collection nationwide. For the first time, the oils that had been discovered at vendor shows and a farmer's market stand in Pennsylvania were available to anyone, anywhere in the United States.

Nothing about the product changed. The oils are still handcrafted in small batches. The ingredients are still real. Tom is still developing new blends. Kim is still approving them. The only difference is the scale of the kitchen they're reaching. Garden Infuzions is not a big company chasing volume. It is two people who care deeply about what they make, who built something from nothing, and who believe that the best thing they can put in a bottle is exactly what they say it is: real herbs, real spices, real flavor.

Garden Infuzions is a specialty culinary brand based in Berks County, Pennsylvania, producing handcrafted infused olive oil blends made exclusively with real herbs and spices. Founded by Tom and Kim Chilton, the brand offers more than 200 original formulations — priced from $7 to $30 — designed for marinades, cooking, baking, salad dressings, bread dipping, and gourmet entertaining. Garden Infuzions products are available online and ship nationwide.

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Tom and Kim Chilton are available for interviews, product features, and tasting demonstrations. They are real people with a genuine story — approachable, articulate, and deeply passionate about what they've built.

• Print, digital, and broadcast interviews
• Podcast guest appearances
• Food and lifestyle feature stories
• Small business and entrepreneurship profiles
• Wellness and functional food coverage
• Product reviews and taste-test features

• Tasting demonstrations and pop-up events
• Farmers market and craft show appearances
• Corporate gifting and bulk orders
• Gourmet food show and expo participation

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Garden Infuzions welcomes sample requests from working journalists, food writers, editors, bloggers, podcast hosts, and retail buyers. To qualify, requestors should provide their name, title, publication or platform, a brief description of the story or purpose, and a link to recent published work.

To submit a sample request, contact Tom directly at press@gardeninfuzions.com or 610-781-6204. Please use subject line: "Media Sample Request — [Your Name / Publication]"

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Photo Title: Garden Infuzions — Fairgrounds Farmer's Market Brand Poster

Garden Infuzions Natural Infused Olive Oil, featured at the Fairgrounds Farmer's Market, Reading, PA. Pictured: Ranch Blend Infused Olive Oil surrounded by fresh herbs and spices. Photo approved for media use. Credit: Garden Infuzions.

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Garden Infuzions Tasting Bar — Full Blend Display

The Garden Infuzions tasting bar at the Fairgrounds Farmer's Market, Reading, PA, showcasing dozens of handcrafted infused olive oil blends available for sampling. Each bottle is made with real herbs and spices — no artificial flavorings. Dry herb blends displayed in the foreground. Photo approved for media use. Credit: Garden Infuzions.

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Garden Infuzions — Full Product Display Shelving

The full retail display at the Garden Infuzions booth at the Fairgrounds Farmer's Market, Reading, PA. Hundreds of handcrafted infused olive oil bottles across multiple shelves, each made in small batches with real herbs and spices. Gift boxes visible on lower shelves. Photo approved for media use. Credit: Garden Infuzions.

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Garden Infuzions — Pesto Blend Tasting Pour

A Garden Infuzions team member pours a tasting sample of Pesto Blend Natural Infused Extra Virgin Olive Oil at the Fairgrounds Farmer's Market, Reading, PA. Customers are invited to taste before they buy — a signature part of the Garden Infuzions market experience. Photo approved for media use. Credit: Garden Infuzions.

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Garden Infuzions — Philly Cheesesteak Blend Product Lineup

The Garden Infuzions Philly Cheesesteak collection — available in three bottle sizes (60ml, 250ml, 375ml, and 500ml), alongside the Philly Cheesesteak Herb Blend dry spice and Philly Cheesesteak Blend Oyster Crackers. The blend that started it all, now a full product family. Made with real herbs and spices — no artificial flavorings. Photo approved for media use. Credit: Garden Infuzions.

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Garden Infuzions — Bread Dipper's Blend Customer Tasting Station

A customer tasting station at the Garden Infuzions booth featuring Bread Dipper's Blend Natural Infused Olive Oil and Bread Dipper's Blend dry herb shaker, served with fresh bread chunks and sample cups. The full product display shelving is visible in the background. This is the Garden Infuzions market experience — taste everything before you buy. Photo approved for media use. Credit: Garden Infuzions.

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