GATHER LONG TABLE DINNERS
Let us warm your heart and fill your belly.
Gather
Come together for a night of sensory discovery, seasonal produce, and story telling.
Harvest Heart is a celebration of farming and food, of seasonal change and timeless tradition.
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Let us warm your heart and delight your tastebuds with the magic of simple joys brought together in an evening like no other.
Long Table Dinners
These special evenings are held just a few times a year.
Folks gather together to share in a family-style, multi-course farm-to-table dinner. Whether field or forest, you will be spell-bound by live music and storytelling weaving their way through the night!
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Our Story
Gather Long Table Dinners grew from a shared dream of my Dad and mine. His, was to share the beautiful forest that we had the gift of calling home, to provide an avenue for folks to find meaning within those cedars, hemlocks, and douglas fir. Mine, was to bring together three of my loves - writing, cooking, and farming, in a way that could remind folks of the integral and soul-stirring magic of the Earth at its most humble.
He quickly crafted stunning tables to sit in a mossy clearing of the forest, while I dug through winter cabbages and leftover roots from my farm, salvaging the remains of a productive harvest season. My sister and Mom strung lights and collected candles, and we all emptied our cupboards of every dish and serving spoon we owned. My dear friend Rose agreed to partake, our neighbours and friends were invited, and I scoured my journals from that year’s growing season for words to share alongside each course. ​​
It was October, perhaps an unexpected time of year for an outdoor, farm-to-table dinner, but that was when I had time and abundance to share. Soon, it was not only the practicality of fall and winter long-tables that drew me in, but the spirit of it.
Whether it is the dark and cold Pacific Northwest winter, the heartbreak we see in the news, or simply the exhaustion of the status-quo that is our North American, capitalist world, so many around me were struggling come fall. I began to see folks fearing the change of season. I felt it myself. Call it seasonal affectiveness disorder, a lack of Vitamin D, or the plight of human existence, hearts were hurting. ​
And so, what if we could bring some comfort into that dark, winter night? What if we could take what we so feared - the cold, the harsh, the lonely, and unknown, and fill it with warmth? What if that winter night was actually the perfect way to wash away the expectations and fears that we’ve been born into, and step into a world out of the ordinary? What better way was there to bring connection and comfort? ​
It’s always been important to me that our dishes are simple. ​I want folks to know that they can go to the farm stand or their own garden, and make this glorious french onion soup, bringing the same magic to their own home.
Our long tables are my version of the Maritime Kitchen Party I never had. Musicians are friends - no stress, no panic for professionality or perfection - we are thrilled that they are willing to share their instrument with us. Our servers come as themselves. They enjoy the evening alongside you. I trade folks dinner tickets for extra help setting up for the event, and offer sliding scale ticket prices, trying my best to find a spot for everyone at the table. It’s important to me that I tell folks just how awful this radicchio looked before I peeled back the outside layers, roasted it in the fire, and poured honey, toasted nuts, and balsamic over it. ​
At the end of the day, it’s about remembering that sometimes, all it takes to turn the darkness, is to light a candle, come together, and with open hearts, find sustenance buried deep beneath those winter-worn layers.
