Have Woodland Meadow, Will Travel

Last Friday, Silverado Vineyards hosted one of the four "distinctive, multi-vintner, multi-course dinners", to mark the beginning of the Stags Leap District's V2V Weekend. Prepared by Chef Sarah Scott, co-author with Connie Green of The Wild Table: Seasonal Foraged Foods and Recipes, the meal featured foraged Napa ingredients such as elderflowers, chanterelles, fennel and black walnuts.  (It smelled amazing . . . I suspect butter was also involved.)

I had the pleasure of designing appropriately wild centerpieces to match, which incorporated calla lilies, maidenhair fern, thistle, and oak from Napa, foxgloves and passion vine from Petaluma, lilac from Stockton, and Icelandic poppies and sweet peas from Half Moon Bay. Right. Up. My. Alley.

 Here's trusty Buck, packed to the gills with flowers- a veritable woodland meadow on wheels.

It Rained the Other Day . . .

. . . but it was a warm, misty rain. Slowly but surely summer is closing in.

 

 

 

Get Ye to the Stanly Lane Nursery!

Okay, folks. If you are on a quest for mad hott tomato selection in the Bay Area, look no further. Remember Brad of Wild Boar Farms and lilac fame? He's partnered up with D&S Produce to bring you scores of unique varieties of vigorous little seedlings at Stanly Lane Nursery, each with their own mouth-watering descriptions and photographs, for your procuring pleasure. I should have posted this weeks ago, because the sale only goes through May (see hours below), so get to it quick! You don't want to miss this : ).