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farmers table supper series | woodland gardens

farm255 — Thu, 02 May 2013 19:09:41 +0000

Last week, we held out first ever Farmers Table Supper Series with Celia Barss from Woodland Gardens. Her gorgeous radishes, snap peas, carrots and first-of-the-season strawberries and tomatoes gave us all a taste of the bounty of the season to come.

We're so looking forward to the upcoming dinners, featuring Three Porch Farm on May 23, Front Field Farm on June 20 and our own Full Moon Farm on July 11. All dinners begin at 6:30pm and are $38, with an optional wine pairing for an additional charge. Each month presents a three-course, set menu with produce from the featured farm. The farmers will be in attendance to share in enjoying the food and good company. Family-style seating is limited, so make your reservations soon by calling 706.549.4660 or emailing us. We hope to see you at our next dinner.

Radishes with nasturtium butter.

Chef Whitney explains the dinner.

Heirloom tomatos with spring onions, red-vein sorrel, hush puppies and housemade ricotta.

The dinner group.

Chicken and spinach dumplings with snap peas and baby carrots.

food truck rodeo

farm255 — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:46:35 +0000

Saturday, May 4, Farm Cart will be hiking out to Watkinsville for a Food Truck Rodeo and open house at Specialty Ornamentals from 3pm-7pm. Come enjoy a leisurely day, explore the gardens and lounge in picnic areas set up among the plants. The day will feature music from local players Matt Joiner, Isaac Bramblett, Scott Baston and CJ Hoty as well as a 4pm performance by kids' band Jerry Zee and the Boogie Woogie Bullfrog. The event is free, but food, of course, will cost ya. A portion of all vendors' sales will go to Healing and Hope Through Science. A full list of vendors is below.

Nana G's Chicken and Waffles

Gigi's Cupcakes

farmers table supper series

farm255 — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:58:56 +0000

At Farm, our menu features not only produce from our own Full Moon Farm; we incorporate the bounty of many area farms into our dishes as well. In order to highlight and celebrate these members of our farming community, we have created the Farmers' Table Supper Series, a new event highlighting a different farm each month. Here, you can meet the people who grow your food and share with them a meal they helped create.

Our first Farmers' Table Supper will be Thursday, April 25 at 6:30pm. The meal will be a set menu of three courses and feature Celia Barss of Woodland Gardens Farm. Dinner is $38. Seating is limited, so make your reservations now by calling 706.549.4660 or emailing us.

Here's our schedule for the coming months:

Thursday, May 23 - Three Porch Farm

Thursday, June 20 - Front Field Farm

Thursday, July 11 - Full Moon Farm

athens farmers market returns

farm255 — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:45:46 +0000

Is there any surer sign of spring than the return of the Athens Farmers Market to Bishop Park, Saturday mornings from 8-12? We're eagerly awaiting the launch this week and our first glimspes of the produce to come.

To celebrate, Farm Cart will be there with new chef Jen. Keep an eye on our Facebook, Twitter or Farm Cart page for a peek at the menu. Chef Whitney will also be there, conducting a cooking demo around 10. Come see us and help usher in another great season for the market. And swing by our own Full Moon Farms' booth to meet our farmers and sign up for their CSA.

boybutante brunch

farm255 — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:03:42 +0000

If anyone knows how to throw a party, it's drag queens. And if that party happens to be at brunch, well, they're not going to let that stop them. Farm 255 has enjoyed the company of some of Athens' finest female impersonators for AIDS Athens' annual Boybutante Brunch for many years, and we're looking forward to doing it again Sunday, April 14, from 11-2. The brunch will be buffet style and includes bloody marys and mimosas. Tickets are $15 and available here. Tickets will also be sold at the door (cash preferred), and the proceeds will go toward AIDS Athens' many programs in HIV testing, prevention, counseling and more.

And of course, consider attending the previous night's Boybutante Ball at the 40 Watt. The annual event is notorious for being a good party.

march farm dirt

farm255 — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:53:52 +0000

Our original mission of sourcing sustainable foods from our own farms has expanded in recent years to include the contributions of a number of local farmers around the Athens area. We thought it was high time we highlighted these farms as individuals, celebrating each one in turn. So we created the Farmers Table Supper Series, launching this month, to do just that. Featuring our own Full Moon Farms, the first dinner will be held March 28 from 6.30-8.30. Supper will be three courses & feature the fresh & seasonal fare sprouting up on the farm. Here's our schedule for the next few months:

April 25 | Woodland Gardens Farm
May 23 | TBA
June 20 | Front Field Farm

Call 706.549.4660 or email us for reservations & follow our blog for menu updates & pricing information.

Farm Cart's back in full swing at Normal Bar on Thursdays from 5 until the food runs out. Our new Cart chef Jen Jackson has been keeping things interesting with weekly offerings ranging from Indian naan wraps to a St. Patrick's Day smorgasbord. You can keep up with the weekly menu changes on our website.

New this month, we also have a late night menu on offer. On Friday & Saturday nights, starting around 11.30, Mackel will be making local fare to wash down the local music we feature on our patio. Our inaugural menu is available on our blog.

The Athens Farmers Market is almost here! The 2013 season launches April 6. Farm Cart will be there with all new brunch items, & Executive Chef Whitney Otawka will be on site doing a cooking demo.

Coming up in April, we're also looking forward to the New South Family Supper. Hosted by Bacchanalia's Anne Quatrano, it features 20 chefs from across the South, including James Beard Award nominee Ashley Christensen & our own Whitney Otawka. The dinner will celebrate the contributions of women both in the fields & in the kitchen & will benefit Southern Foodways Alliance's documentary work. The dinner will be held at Atlanta's Ponce City Market at 6 pm, April 14. Tickets are available here.

April 20 marks the Georgia Children's Chorus's Tour of Kitchens. Chef Whitney will be there giving a cooking demo, along with our wine director Christopher Becerra, who will be talking about pairings. Get your tickets here.

Our own Full Moon Farms has CSA shares available. From April 1 to August 1, keep your family full on local veggies for about $24 a week. Learn more & sign up here.

Thanks to Flagpole readers for voting Farm 255 best non-traditional place to see live music and our bar manager, Kaleb Cribb, runner-up for favorite bartender.

Our own Olivia Sargent talked agriculture, Farm 255 history, burgers & more on the Heritage Radio Network this month. Listen to it here.

A new member of the family is on the way. Our fourth iteration of Farm Burger is opening soon in Asheville. Stay tuned to our Farm Burger blog for updates.

late night menu

farm255 — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 20:41:37 +0000

Farm 255 is excited to announce a new late night menu, available Fridays and Saturdays starting at 11. Now you can chow down on burgers, sandwiches and brats while you rock out on the patio. Join us tonight and hear some of the seven bands we have lined up for Athens Slingshot.

{ Grassfed Beef Cheeseburger }

grassfed beef, TN cheddar, b&b pickles, mustard, mayo, lettuce { 9 }

{ "Tomorrow's Breakfast" }

fried farm egg, housemade bacon, TN cheddar, hot sauce, sausage gravy, texas toast {6.75 }

{ Housemade Bratwurst }

caramelized onions, mustard { 7.5 }

{ House-cut Fries }

buttermilk "ranch" { 3 }

{ Hush Puppies }

honey butter { 3 }

sey&bf alliance at georgia organics conference

farm255 — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:54:40 +0000

The Georgie Organics Conference is coming up February 22 & 23 at the Georgia International Conference Center in Atlanta with keynote speaker Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Featuring farm tours, workshops and an epic farmers' feast, it's an event not to be missed.

Farm 255 will be representin', along with our friends and partners, the Southeastern Young & Beginning Farmers Alliance. SEY&BF will be hosting some events of their own in conjunction with the conference, including a mixer, a grand expo reception with a photo booth where farmers can lend their voices to our multimedia projects and a farmer advocacy workshop meeting over lunch. Check out SEY&BF's events page on Facebook to RSVP and come ready to exchange ideas to push the future of farmers forward in Georgia.

farm 255 at shotgun supper club

farm255 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:26:02 +0000

Chef Whitney zig-zagged the country last year, cooking for lovers of good food from upstate New York to San Francisco. Next month, she'll be staying close by, with a trip to Thomasville the weekend of February 9, to share a dinner with our favorite creamery, Sweet Grass Dairy, and Shotgun Supper Club's Nan Myers. Tickets are available here sold out. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook for updates. We look forward to seeing you in Thomasville!

nye menu, wine pairings & live music

farm255 — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:22:17 +0000

This New Years Eve, we'll be hosting our annual bash, replete with a four-course prix fixe menu, wine pairings and live music from The Dream Scene, covering Talking Heads & Prince. See the menu below and call 706.549.4660 or email us for reservations.

{ firsts }

Flat Creek Lodge Cheddar Cheese Fritters

cruze family farms buttermilk

2008 Bodegas Carrau, “Sust” Brut Nature, Cerro Chapeau, Rivera, Uruguay

Smoked Sunburst Farms Trout

potato chips, crème fraiche

Mionetto, Prosseco Brut, D.O.C. Treviso, Veneto, Italy

Fried Country Ham Toast

persimmon jam

2010 Schloss Schönborn “Pink,” Spätburgunder QbA trocken, Rheingau, Germany

{ seconds }

Woodland Gardens Root Vegetables

parsnips, Parisian carrots, shallots, pine nuts, golden vadouvan

2011 Abbazia di Novacella, Kerner, Alto Adige, Italy

Front Field Farms Baby Beets

creamy smoked onion, watercress, satsuma, nasturtium

2009 Dom. Claude Branger, “Terroir Les Gras Moutons,” Muscadet Sèvre et Maine, Loire Valley, France

Full Moon Farms Crispy Lacinato Kale

anson mills benne seed puree, lemon, mustard greens, garlic chips

2011 Inama, Soave Classico, Veneto, Italy

{ thirds }

Braised Anderson Farms Pork Belly

“sizzling” Carolina gold rice, charred baby carrots, scallion, fried farm egg, kentucky soy sauce

2010 Lioco, Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast, Ca.

Smoked Atlantic Cod

sapelo clam “chowder”, shaved brussles sprouts, fried fingerling potatoes, chives

white option: 2008 Dr. Konstantin Frank, Barrel Fermented Chardonnay, Finger Lakes, NY;

red option: 2010 Zantho, Zweigelt, Burgenland, Austria

Braised Moonshine Beef Cheeks

grilled radicchio, hen of the woods mushrooms, jasper hill farm winnimere tortellini

2011 Clos Cristal, “Hospices de Saumur,” Cabernet Franc, Saumur-Champigny, Loire Valley, France

{ fourth }

Smoked Chocolate Marquise

toasted marshmallow, graham cracker crisps

Smith Woodhouse, “Lodge Reserve” Port, Douro Valley, Portugal

Coconut Cake

blood orange custard, lime, hibiscus, cinnamon

Boeri Ribota, Moscato d’Asti, Piedmont, Italy

Maple Pot de Crème

bourbon sugar cookies

Warre’s “Otima” 10 year Tawny Port, Douro Valley, Portugal