2nd Annual Spring Farm Dinner

April 21, 2023

On April 1, 2023 Rural Studio hosted our 2nd Annual Spring Farm Dinner event.

A toast is given over a long table sat with guests

Last year’s dinner was such a success, we wanted to bring everyone back together for an evening with friends. Our focus is on smaller-scale sustainable agriculture and ways to invest in our local food system. Along with RS faculty and staff, we were delighted to have folks join us from BDA Farm in Uniontown, the Newbern Library, Schoolyard Roots in Tuscaloosa, and the Black Belt Food Project/Abadir’s.

People visit together, seated at a long table-clothed table at dusk
Another view of everyone gathered together at a long table with a white tablecloth, outside at dusk
People gathered at the long outdoor tables enjoy each other's company and the fine food placed before them

We shared ideas and updates from the past year. It was also a chance to imagine opportunities to continue working together. Of course, the evening was organized around sharing an excellent outdoor meal, which was prepared by chef Brad Hart and hosted by Johanna Gilligan, both friends and consultants of Rural Studio out of Santa Fe.

A close-up of a plate of food at the spring farm dinner, in this case a green salad with strawberries and parmigiana

Most of the fresh vegetables, herbs, and fruit came from Rural Studio Farm (like the fresh strawberries) and the meat was sourced from BDA Farm.

Some spears of asparagus and ripe strawberries sit arranged together on the wash table
An overhead shot of colorful heads of lettuces fill out the raised beds in the greenhouse
A student holds up an intact and well-shaped head of green lettuce in the greenhouse
Blue-green dinosaur (lacinato) kale grows in the greenhouse

With such great food and fond company, it was a lovely twilit evening, and we are pleased to make this an annual tradition.

It is edging into night as people visit together at the long table
People are looking toward the center of the long table where everyone is gathered outside
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