Happy Tuesday!

Yeah, I realize Tuesdays aren't exactly the sexiest day of the week, but I think we have enough tasty events lined up for you to completely forget that fact, and instead get your tastebuds revved up!

Over the next few weeks, you're going to see an influx of tasty spring items hitting local menus, including asparagus, softshell crabs, and much more. Be sure to take advantage of these locally-sourced items whenever you get a chance. Fresh tastes better! It's what we specialize in!

If you're looking for an amazing farm-to-table event for your next big meeting, get together, birthday, anniversary, wedding or rehearsal, or company gathering, don't hesitate to call us! From LowCountry Boils and Wood-Fired Oyster Roasts to Whole Heritage Hog BBQ to sit-down, family style dinners, we can do them all...on the farm or at your location!

Taste the Farm to Table difference and book your next event with us!


Vanessa, Kristian, and the rest of the F2T Team! 



Fourth Annual Main Street Dinner  
April 22nd, 1200 Block of Main Street 

Join us for one of the most memorable dinners of the year at our annual harvest dinner on Main Street! Set directly in front of the South Carolina State Capitol Building, Chefs Kristian Niemi and Frank Bradley from Bourbon, Chef Todd Woods from The Oak Table, and Chef Pierce Bowers from Lula Drake will prepare a family-style, four course farm to table dinner paired with wines chosen by Lula Drake owner/sommelier, Tim Gardner, that you'll never forget. Reception will feature a special complimentary cocktail at Bourbon. $125 per person 

Farm-Fresh French Harvest Dinner 
featuring Guest Chef Bertrand Gilli and Wine Pairings by Jean-Pierre Chambas (5 tickets left) 
Monday, April 9th, 6:30pm City Roots Farm

Join us for a French-inspired Harvest Dinner with Chef Bertrand Gilli and Chef Frank Bradley featuring he freshest spring ingredients paired with delicious wines chosen by one of the nation's greatest wine men, J-P Chambas!
 Tickets include a family style, four-course farm to table dinner, wine pairings, and a welcome cocktail by Bourbon on Main Street. 

The Menu

Soft-shell Crab "Meuniere"
Crispy Local Crab over Congaree Milling Grits with Lemon-Brown Butter and Fried Capers

Salad of Freshly Grown Farms Lettuces with Wood-Grilled Fallow Farms Asparagus, Hard-Boiled Wil-Moore Farms Eggs, Baguette Croutons, Gribiche Dressing

Wood-Grilled Brasstown Bavette Steak with Creamed Asher Blue Cheese Spinach, Wood-Roasted City Roots Carrots, Hakurei Turnips, Potatoes tossed in Fresh Herbs de Provence

Spring Parfait - Gran Marnier-tossed Watsonia Farms Strawberries, Dacquoise, Creme Anglaise

Tickets are only $75. Gratuity not included.

There are less than FIVE SEATS left, so don't hesitate to get your tickets!

     

Wine for Water - A Benefit for our Watershed Alliances 
Senates End April 18,2018 6pm

Join us Wednesday, April 18 from 6pm to 8:30pm at The Hall at Senate's End, 320 Senate Street, to celebrate Earth Day, and enjoy great wine and food, and a silent auction. Join the Gills Creek Watershed Association, and the Rocky Branch and Smith Branch Watershed Alliances at Columbia's Senate's End to support our vision for the streams and rivers that we have pledged to preserve!

Participating restaurants include Rosso , Tallulah , Midwood Smokehouse , White Duck Taco Shop , Chipotle Mexican Restaurant, and Dupre Catering , our host at Senate's End.


Tickets are only $35 for members and $45 for nonmembers. Membership in your watershed group and admission for one for only $60. Visit wineforwater2018.org for more information.
 

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Back to the Roots Festival! 
April 28th, 11:30pm - 6pm City Roots Farm 

Join us in celebrating City Roots 10th Growing Season at the Back to the Roots Festival! This will be the first event of its kind in Columbia, with fun hands-on farm learning experiences combined with great music, food and drinks that will be fun for EVERYONE!   

This event will have 

Farm Tours
Hands-On Gardening Classes and Demonstrations
Wine and Beer Gardens 
LIVE Music
Cooking and Canning Classes by top local chefs
Live-Fire Cooking Demonstrations
and much more (see below)


Wine Garden featuring wines by Grass Roots and Advintage 

Beer Gardens 
Sour Beer Station - TropicMost Gose, Wicked Weed La Bonte Pear, Rotating Wicked Weed Sours, Columbia Craft Sour 

Cider Beer Station - Bold Rock IPA, Bold Rock Rose, Bold Rock Dry, Wicked Weed Cider

Craft Beer Station - Columbia Craft Lager, Wicked Weed Pernicious IPA, Wicked Weed Astronomical IPA, Wicked Weed Lunatic Belgium Blonde

Domestic Station - Wicked Weed Lt Dank IPA, Bud, Mic Ultra 

Local Beer Station - sponsored by Hunter Gatherer 

Live Music!

12 - 1 - Mark Taylor Jr Band 
1:30 - 2:30 - The Buck Dancers
3:00 - 4:00 - Pharaohs in Space
4:30 - 6pm - Cletus Baltimore

Heroes Changing Our Plate - Join us under the pavilion for bookselling and signing by USC Distinguished Professor and Ark of Taste for the South Food Historian David Shields, Nat Bradford from Bradford Watermelons tasting and education table, Slow Food Columbia Ark of Taste Table. Historic Columbia Foundation will be selling cuttings of Ark of Taste and heritage ingredients for you to grow at home. 

Kitchen Demos by Frank Bradley and Lou Hutto - Butcher Demo, Quick Pickle Demo, Make Your Own Mustards Demo and a Sausage Making Demo, 

Live-Fire Cooking Demos on KUDU and Sea Island Forge Grills with Chef Kristian Niemi

Yoga Classes - Adult Yoga in the backfield by Theresa Hurt

Farm Tours by City Roots 

Kids Zone! 

Kids Yoga by Fit Columbia

Planting a Seed Station--> Kids will plant a seed to take home (and also help Flower Farmer Brinton start sunflowers for the farm! ) Kids will learn what makes good potting mix for their plants to grow, then help sift it all together, and plant their seeds, learning which varieties grow best in Spring gardens.

Plant Prints Station--> Kids will use veggies, mushrooms and flowers to make their very own "In Season" art prints.

Veggie Cookies--> Using naturally colored icing, kids will get to decorate (and eat!) tasty cookies shaped like veggies. (icings are pink, orange, green and yellow and made with beet juice, carrot juice, spinach and turmeric) wand an edible flowers cookie "toppings" bar. 

Bike Valet and Bike Tent - ride your bike and receive a discounted ticket!  Brought to you by Summit Cycles and Cola Town Bike Collective 

Vendors
The Chestnut Elephant, Indigo Designs, EZE Farms, Gardeners Outpost, Two Brothers Jerky, Mercer Winery, Midlands Food Alliance, Slow Food Columbia, Historic Columbia, Bradford Farms, LuLaRoeNALA, Old Mckaskills Farm, Carolina Bay Farms and many more

Food and Beverage Vendors - F2T Catering, Wurst Wagon, Crepes and Croissants, Bourbon, Alex's Lemonade Stand, and more


Sponsored By Dick Dyer Volvo Cars, Wicked Weed Brewery and Hunter Gatherer
 
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Thank you to our Title Sponsor:


Founded by Dick Dyer in 1969, Dick Dyer & Associates has been servicing the Midlands and surrounding communities for over 48 years. We are the true definition of a "Family Dealership" with three generations of the Dyer family on site to make sure our clients receive the attention and care they deserve.

We strive to make you feel like a welcomed part of our family whether you are shopping for a new 2017-2018 vehicle, bringing your car in for service, or just stopping by to say hello. Thank you for taking the time to visit our online dealership and learn a little more about our company. We would also like to invite you to stop in and visit us at our newly renovated facility located at 5825 Two Notch Road, Columbia, SC 29223. Learn more at www.dickdyeronline.com 
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