Appetizer

Just picked grapes – regional and Fairy-Tale Farm

Mystery Golden Delicious apples and Fresh walnuts - local harvest
Homemade compagnon bread – w/ Scarborough Fair herb butter or olive oil

Soup

Cioppino – hearty Italian stew with local harvest vegetables (please RSVP if you’d like with fish or without)
Homemade compagnon bread

Salad

Micro greens and heirloom lettuces – w/ heirloom tomatoes, flowers, and surprises, in a creamy basil vinaigrette
Multi-color potato salad – w/ fresh roasted peppers and Fairy-Tale Farm green bean pickles in an herb vinaigrette

Main

Molti Strati alla Griglia – Italian-style casserole w/ pan grilled eggplant, zucchini,  onions, and cheese in a mild tomato-chili sauce (vegetarian, vegan option: please specify when RSVP’ing)
Cowfolk Beans – sprouted pinto beans w/ mild Monterey chili spices (vegan)
Monterey Romance rice – light Spantalian heavily fused with the New World (vegan)

Dessert

Pie selection: apple pie, pear pie, Arana Gulch blackberry pie, rhubarb apple pie, the neighbor’s peaches pie, gluten-free pie (please request on RSVP)
Coffee
Tea

The food sourced for this menu is, as always, as local as we can make it.  We start in our own garden, then the gardens and farms of our friends, then we go to farmer’s markets, and the final ingredients at a local store, with a clear bias toward regionally sourced.

In particular, the food is supplied by our friends at City Blooms (micro greens), at least three other farms we’ll name at the dinner, Azalyne Skye Olson, Ellen Baker, and a few others we’ll discover this week.

Come dine with us and share in the Santa Cruz urban bounty!

Come through the roses and have some appetizers.

Dinner is from 5-7 PM followed by a community dance!

Dance Around Molly a live Irish band, will be playing from 7-9 PM and we will have Linda Preston, our caller teaching us all how to line up and swirl to the music!  No experience necessary, just come prepared to dance the night away.

Dinner and dancing: $40 suggested donation.  If you’d like to just come for the dance and desert, only $10 suggested donation.  Come at 7 PM for dancing and desert.

As always, one free slot for dishwasher, but you will work for your supper!  If you’d like free dancing and desert, we could use two dishwashers, so contact us.

Children are welcome for the dancing and desert.  Well behaved children are welcome for the dinner.  We will have intimate tables for 4 as well as larger community tables for 8 +.  Seating is first come first served, so arrive on time and grab a seat in your favorite part of the garden.

Reservations are required and must be made by September 24th.  Let me know how many people are coming:

reservations@fairy-talefarm.com

Come join your host for some magic.

Come to the Inner Circle. Special seating for 8 on pink pillows. Sans bucket.

To reserve, contact us at: reservations@fairy-talefarm.com Let us know the date you’re coming, and how many people you are.  There are 50 seats available per dinner.  Pie party is unlimited! If you have free fruit, contact me and I will trade for dinner or pie.

Sunday September 26th Fall feast!  5 PM – 9 PM Harvest party and live Irish music with Dance Around Molly!  Linda Preston, our caller, will teach you all you need to know.  Children welcome for the dance.  Menu to follow shortly, but it will be a multi-course meal, with vegetables plucked from the garden.  $40 suggested donation.  Bring your own wine or beer to share.  If you’d like to come just for dessert and dancing, arrive at 7 PM and donate $10.  Coffee and tea included.

Azalyne's breads and pies are sublime!

And while you are salivating looking at these beautiful raw chocolate strawberry cheesecakes and gluten free loaves, you must come to:

Sunday October 17th Gluten free extravaganza!  5 PM Azalyne Sky-Olson of “The Culture of Change” food share will be preparing a cultured, organic, Italian feast!  If you haven’t been able to eat bread or pasta, have celiac or food challenges, or are just wheat intolerant, this is the dinner for you.  $75 suggested donation. (This price reflects the high cost of ingredients, and the labor intensity of sprouting and culturing that Azalyne does to make her goods maximally digestible.)  Menu to follow. Please bring wine to share.

Sunday November 7th  Pie Party! (Update 10/28/10  Pie Party is Canceled!) Who’s down for pie?  Blackberry, peach, pecan, blueberry, apple, shoefly, if it’s a pie, we’ve got it!  Live music, and lots of coffee, tea and pie!  $10 suggested donation for all you can eat.  (But don’t be too greedy, unless you bring me fruit!) Whole pies for sale for $10 or trade, place your orders ahead of time.  If you’re vegan or gluten free, contact me and I can make you a special pie.  10 AM – 3 PM

Pies, pies, and more pies.

Sunday December 5th  Tapas and music! (Update 10/28/10 Tapas Party Canceled!) Join us for South American music, and a Spanish feast!  $40 suggested donation.  Bring wine to share.  This event will be inside.  But if the weather is accommodating, we’ll string lights in the trees and gather besides the fire to eat desert.  6 PM

One free slot for a dishwasher every dinner.  But you will work for your supper.  We need music for the pie party!  Free pie for musicians.

The dinners are for adults or well behaved children.  The pie party is for all ages.  Let us know if you have any food restrictions, or if we can get something special for you.  And lastly, tell your friends and come support our little piece of magic!

From dirt to fricassee!

What would you like?

Bring your Mother to our next One Day Cafe!  Sunday, May 9th  10 AM – 4 PM.  Drop in anytime for fresh baked bread, Ladysmith Jams and Jellies, and chocolate ganache!  And, of course, pie.  Tea, coffee, and free wireless internet!

The garden is full of flowers.  Bring your mom to a delightful day in our beautiful garden.  Sip tea and eat fresh bread under the roses, with chickens clucking around you begging for scraps!

Drop in anytime.  $10 for coffee, bread, jam, ganache, and pie!  Children $5

Please RSVP at:  reservations@fairy-talefarm.com

If you are a musician, you can play for your slice of pie!  Contact me if you or someone you know would like to entertain us for tea and bread and jam.

For more info on Anna Cameron’s jams, email her at: ladysmithjams@yahoo.com

For ganache info, contact www.lifestyleculinary.com

Looking forward to eating with you!

RESTAURANT/CAFE:
Sunday, February 7th Pie Party!! 10 AM – 2 PM Drop in anytime for a few slices of pie and unlimited coffee and tea. Frolic in the garden, listen to the music, and enjoy organic pies with your family and friends. $10

Friday, March 12 Dinner in the Field 6 PM – 9 PM This is our next formal underground restaurant, chef and menu to be announced. Limit 30 guests. $30 Cheap wine included. Please bring a nice bottle of wine to share if you’d like. Live music.

Sunday, April 11 One Day Cafe 10 AM – 4 PM Come drop by and dine on homemade pastries. Unlimited coffee and tea, and live music. Free wireless internet access. Prices vary.

Sunday, May 9 One Day Cafe 10 AM-4PM Same as above.

Saturday, June 12 Dinner in the Field! 6 PM – 10 PM Chef and menu to be announced. $30 per guest

NEW: FIGURE DRAWING IN THE GARDEN

We are starting monthly figure drawing classes, with a live nude model. Free coffee and tea! Come hang out and eat cookies ($2 each) even if you’re not drawing. $10 if you are drawing/painting. No instruction, just come and inspire one another. We will begin with quick poses, and end with longer 30 minute sessions. You are free to paint the chickens instead. Last Sunday of each month:

Sunday, Jan 31 2-5 PM

Sunday, February 28 2-5 PM

Sunday, March 28 2-5 PM

Sunday, April 25, 2-5 PM

Sunday, May 30 2-5 PM

Sunday, June 27 2-5 PM

As always, there are two free slots reserved for each event as musician and dishwasher. If you are interested in modeling for us for the figure drawing classes, you will be payed $15 an hour, or you can trade for future classes/events. We will have flowers and produce for sale when available, so bring extra cash.

If you are a chef and interested in cooking for one of our dinners, contact us. We also host private parties.

Reservations for any of these events can be made by emailing us at:

reservations@fairy-talefarm.com

Please specify the date/event you are reserving for and the # of people coming. For the cafe/ figure drawing class, please let me know if you intend to come so I can get an idea of how much to cook, but you are welcome to bring friends and decide last minute. We will always have coffee and tea!

Contact us if you have ideas or inspirations for future events. Happy New Year!