Private dining at Torc

If you're planning an engagement party, rehearsal dinner, birthday, or other celebration, take note: Torc's beautiful second floor dining room is now available for private dining for 10 to 40 guests. The beautiful food (highlighting local ingredients like Hudson pork and foraged mushrooms) and interior (highlighting natural materials like the original stone walls and hardwood floors) make this restaurant one of our favorite places both to enjoy a meal and to work. Here is authenticity and quality, all the way.

 

Late summer texture

 . . . . all harvested from the home's beautiful gardens and ranch.

Berry good times

We're still going like crazy with all kinds of summer beauty that I can't wait to share once time allows. Until then, here are some fun little arrangements including strawberries, zinnias, and carnations from Napa (thank you, Hudson Ranch for planting so many beautiful carnations!!) and garden roses from Santa Rosa.

Bearded beauties

I'm incredibly lucky to live down the road from what must be one of the world's most magical places . . . the Napa Country Iris Gardens. If you're not able to go yourself, check out their amazingly comprehensive website and online catalog.

Here are a couple recent arrangements featuring bearded iris I begged off the farm (they specialize in rhizomes, not cuts), along with allium, clematis, hellebores, buckeye, lamium, artichoke, lavender, sage, maiden hair fern, pea tendrils, and maple whirly birds from our garden.

Happy Spring!!!