Greenhouse Supper Club
Cocktails at 5:30, barn dinner to follow. $35 per person.
We're still sorting out the menu, but expect courses of home-cured meats and pickles; Vermont cheeses and cousin-baked bread; handmade pasta dumplings; smoke-kissed local meats; heirloom garden vegetables and sumptuous sweets.
After supper: New moon fire and night-time revels...
Our funding goal is $1,800. Give us your money, and we'll give you:
$5-10 — Cut flower bouquet
— or — heirloom tomatoes
$20 — Organic veggie box
$35 — Six-Course supper, SATURDAY OCTOBER 1
— or — Supper Club raincheck
$50 — Veggie box plus one pastured roaster chicken
— or — Three-week veggie share, summer 2017
$100 — Three roaster chickens
$200 — Summerlong veggie share, 2017
$500 — Summerlong veggie share plus 10 roaster chickens, 2017
— or — farm-to-table weekend getaway.
$1000 — Summerlong veggie share plus 10 roaster chickens (2017) plus lifetime supper club membership
HUH, WHAT, WHY?
As we ready to put this summer's garden to bed, we're revisiting our long-put-off greenhouse project.
To pay for it, we're hosting a dinner — we cook, you eat, we all make merry under soaring posts and beams.
We plan to host supper clubs quarterly, so if October 1 doesn't work for you, there will be another.
If dinner's not your jam, you can still donate — we'll hit you back with veggies or meats or flowers, or a getaway weekend of farm-to-table pampering (meals and lodging for four, on us) — whatever your pleasure.
We can't ship anything, but we can deliver locally ....
Our story:
Dan and I moved to Corinth in July, 2015. I knew the house as a child — in the car with my parents, en route to wherever, we'd descend the hill on the Corinth side of South Road into a little river hollow. At the center of the hollow was an old farmhouse looking down the notch and a long red barn, surrounded by fields , and a dairy farm on the other side of the river. I always noticed what a beautiful place it was.
Decades later as my husband and I were looking for a place to call home, the old farmhouse was on the market. By some miracle, we could just barely afford it. And here we are, with four bedrooms, winter wood stacked, and an over-ambitious and prolific vegetable garden.
We ripped out the in-ground vinyl swimming pool last summer. We'd crown its imprint with hoops and shroud those with plastic and have ourselves a greenhouse, we said. A farmer friend offered hoops for cheap-to-free, if we'd remove them from his field. But we needed yards of fill and topsoil and compost and plastic, and time, mostly, to complete the project.
So it sat — we had more urgent fish to fry. This spring, it was starting seeds , turning sod and establishing beds. That seeped into summer planting and weeding; tractor-fixing and harvesting; chicken-raising and slaughter.
Now, we're ready to get after it. We just need a little liquid capital, and your help would mean the world (and an early jump on spring, 2017!) to us.