Take the beautiful drive through winding hills, roadside streams, and horse pastures to our Greenhouse dinner series at McKinney Farm, located just outside of Franklin, Tennessee in Big East Fork Valley.

Join us for a five course family-style dinner inside a temperature controlled greenhouse, featuring live-fire cooking and ingredients from the farm. Enjoy a signature cocktail as you have an opportunity to walk a nature trail, hang out with the farm animals, take an educational tour of the greenhouse, and connect with other guests before sitting for dinner.

Event starts at 4; dinner starts at 5.
Address will be given in the email confirmation after purchasing a ticket.
Ticket includes: social hour, seated dinner, and beer, wine, & cocktails.

Limited tickets available.

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Hors D'oeuvres

Fried Crab Dumplings | mascarpone, cilantro, crab roe
Duck Liver Pate | onion marmalade, pickled chard, toast
Japanese Sweet Potato | quark, smoked shiitake, raisin

First
Spread Market Country Sourdough | spring onion butter
Greenhouse Lettuces | Bells Bend Farms shaved veg, torn herbs, buttermilk

Second
Bucksnort Trout | sweet potato, grilled radicchio, preserved lemon jam

Third
Charred Smokin Oaks Farm Beef | shoyu
Beaverdam Creek Mill Grits | forest mushrooms
Creamed Spinach & Chard | sourdough crumble
Roasted Carrots | brown butter, green garlic

Sweet
Embered Carrot Cake | spiced apple, toasted oats, orange

*bold italic = from the property
* Menu may change slightly based on product availability
* Please email hello@ramblerevents.com with any additional questions or major dietary restrictions. We will do our best to accommodate.

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Some things to keep in mind:

• This is a rain or shine event!
• This is a 21+ event. Please have ID available upon arrival.
• Please note that this will be an outdoor event on a farm -- please dress accordingly.
• We love them, but unfortunately no pets are allowed at the event.
• By attending this event, you agree to assume all responsibility for your health and well-being.

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"A rich life is full of wonderful relationships. Our mission at McKinney Farm is to give visitors a glimpse of Mother Nature’s beauty, powers and magic and maybe afford an introduction of sorts between the guest and the natural world (such as that which surrounds us here); and of course a very personal introduction to Mother Nature’s organic greens! The hope is that for some it will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship; for others a renewal; for others a glorious continuation. Whatever the stage of the relationship, the further hope is that the visitor quickly feels a part of, not a visitor to, this beautiful place.

McKinney Farm in Big East Fork Valley celebrates the dance of life in harmony and partnership with the natural world. Nature’s grand symphony is always at play at Big East Fork. We do our best to listen; not interrupt; and, most importantly, be guided by and learn from the natural world that surrounds, in all its elegance and beauty. Time with the natural world seems to teach gentleness. You make a connection and find yourself caring for the tiniest signs of life because life is so precious; it is so vulnerable. When making that connection, truly feeling that connection on an intimate level, it is a transformative moment and you realize that you are a part of, not a visitor to, this glorious place we call earth.

Nothing makes us more aware of our inherent relationship with the natural world than the bounty Mother Nature affords; the glorious meals she provides. Nothing is more a part of us than the food we eat. The miracle of it all is that when our food is grown in harmony with the natural world (organically) we have the capacity for internal self-renewal. Health is not a static situation but rather the dynamic ability of the body/the organism to adapt and self-manage; a mutual synthesis between organism and environment. We need only provide the proper growing conditions.

Our health, vigor, and resistance to disease (our biological quality) is determined by our growing conditions and the physiological suitability of our inputs. Just as there is an intimate partnership between plant roots and microorganisms that renders plants inherently insusceptible to disease and pests, there is an intimate partnership between our biological system and the food that we eat that renders us inherently insusceptible to disease.

Our role as organic farmers is merely to serve as conductors of the consummate musicians: the soil microorganisms, the fungi, the mineral particles, the sun, the air, the water; all parts of a system. It is the elegant coordination of the whole that achieves success. The more they can be arranged to the crop’s liking, starting with a soil in good heart, the more bountiful the harvest. When we are guided by and participatory with the natural world in our efforts to create life-giving foods, sustainable human health becomes within reach.

So, come listen and dance with us, where beauty & miracles abound…provided they are within you. And, should you doubt for even a moment that they are, just come here and your doubts will quickly vanish into the mist of wonder at Big East Fork."

- Wade McKinney, McKinney Farm