Farm Fresh: A Long Table Dinner with Vitala

October 2, 2013

Farm Fresh: A Long Table Dinner with Vitala

October 2, 2013

You may remember me mentioning that I was lucky enough to be invited to attend a long table dinner a couple of weeks ago and I thought you might like to get a little peek at the experience. Hosted by Vitala at the picturesque Bakerview EcoDairy (where Rachel and I hosted our Fieldstone Vintage Markets), it was the perfect way to welcome Fall and to celebrate locally grown food and wine. We even got to tour the luxurious Vitala cow barn (yes, I used the words luxurious and cow barn in the same sentence!) where they have back scratchers (which the cows actually use!) and a super high-tech robotic milking machine…they seemed like very happy cows, indeed 🙂 You can see more beautiful pictures by Tanya Goehring over on the new Vitala blog but here are some of my favourites…

All photos by Tanya Goehring, Post Photography.

I brought Elisa from Spruce as my “date” and we had a great time getting to know other local bloggers while sharing heaping plates of the most delicious food I’ve tasted in a very long time! Chef Dino Renaerts and his wife Nessa van Bergen (Bon Vivant Group) pulled out all of the stops creating a 4-course dinner incorporating Vitala products with meat and local produce sourced from Nature?s Pickin?s. You can see many more pics of the food and evening over on my Instagram feed and we were all filled to the brim by the time dessert arrived! It was truly a farm to table experience, in every way. We sampled delicious wines from Haywire with each course and I’ll definitely be adding them to my next Okanagan wine tour itinerary!

All photos by Tanya Goehring, Post Photography.

The entire evening was magical and the Vitala team made us all feel so special with each thoughtful detail and some seriously awesome goody bags to take home with us at the end! Thank you so much to Helinda & Bill for hosting such a beautiful evening and for everyone else who helped put it together…I felt truly honoured to be included 🙂 If you have a chance to attend a similar farm to table experience in your own community, be sure to take it! It’s so interesting (and so very important) for us all to understand where our food, where real food, actually comes from. Cheers!