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10/25/2018 0 Comments Sip N Shop Vendor Lineup  Below is a list of vendors lined up for the Sip N Shop on Saturday, October 27, 2-5 pm. Make plans to visit, shop, and enjoy wine in our Tasting Room. Bring friends and family and start the holiday shopping season in style.
SAVE THE DATE: Our next Sip N Shop before the holidays is Saturday, November 17, 1-4 pm. Shellie Jennings will offer card readings during the event. Color Street Scentsy Paparazzi Norwex Sensible Lips with Annie (SeneGence) Pampered Chef Uniquely Leather Chloe and Isabel Young Living Ruby Ribbon Thirty-One Mary Kay Rodan & Fields The Onyx Feather Pure Romance Trades of Hope The Cocoa Exchange DoTerra LuLaRoe The Onyx Feather Pure Romance Magnabilities Lola & Jade Nowlin Yarn Creations Green Utopia
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10/24/2018 0 Comments Chef Specials Return for Fall/Winter Visit Fence Stile's Tasting Room for a light meal to accompany your glass or bottle of wine. Starting this weekend, our chef will prepare a seasonal soup, panini or other food special available Friday through Sunday (while supplies last).
Friday, October 26 - Sunday, October 28 Soup: Creamy roast vegetable bisque with sweet-and-spicy green tomato relish, salsa verde and toasted acorn squash seeds Watch our Facebook page for weekly postings of upcoming Chef Specials.   Fence Stile Vineyards and Winery is highlighting the farmers featured in our upcoming Farm + Market Local Food and Wine Experience. Tickets are still available for this exciting new wine and food event on Sunday, November 18th, 3:30-5:30 PM. $35 per person. RSVP at events@fencestile.com or call 816-500-6465. Limited seating available. Reserve a seat today! This week, meet Linda Hezel of Prairie Birthday Farm. "The mission of Prairie Birthday Farm is to inspire and empower others to enjoy, consume, and produce nutritious food and the native ecosystems upon which its production depends," Hezel says. "Efforts to achieve that mission are encompassed in a multifaceted food literacy enterprise involving: 1. Production/demonstration, 2. Education/sharing, 3. Evaluation/research, and 4. Creativity/innovation." Based in Kearney, Missouri, Hezel established Prairie Birthday Farm in 1993 at first to feed her family and then the broader community. "The farmscape and gardens have been designed to mimic nature in food production and reconstruct native ecosystems necessary for the balance and synergy among plants and animals," Hezel says. "Using native plants in food production offers many benefits including adaptability to local soil and climate conditions, maintaining healthy and diverse ecosystem services, the conservation and propagation of local flora types, and creation of aesthetic wealth." The farm's bounty is "produced without synthetic chemicals and sold to dozens of area residents by arrangement and as many as 25 area chefs," says Hezel. Hundreds of pounds of herbs, edible flowers, vegetables, and fruit (including wild and Slow Food Ark of Taste varieties) are available from February through November without the use of season extension structures. Hezel adds, "As a small-scale producer, I focus on the most flavorful and unique herbs, flowers, fruits and vegetables." Farm products and experiences include flowers (36+), fruit (25+), herbs (40+), and vegetables (15+); native plants: 140+ (forbs, grasses, bushes, vines, and trees). Together, they yield fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, eggs, honey, and art in the form of photographs and tablescapes, research, classes, aesthetic wealth, and nature immersion experiences. Prairie Birthday Farm has played host to guests from the culinary community, including chef Pete Dulin of Fence Stile Vineyards and Winery. Hezel says, "Hundreds of volunteers and learners as well as chefs and their culinary teams interested in the concepts operationalized by the farm have taken tours, participated in 1-3-day immersion experiences, and taken part in the seasonal and daily rhythms of activities required to steward the complex systems of food production." For the upcoming Farm + Market local food and wine event, our chef will use wild plum wood to smoke leeks, fresh turmeric leaves (pictured below) that will be combined with sweet potato and ginger in samosas, and dried dahlia petals as a garnish for dessert.  At this point in the harvest season, the first killing frost has occurred but some production still continues at the farm. "Many hardy plants remain, some improved greatly with the rain and cold," Hezel says. "Available now: Organic, baby ginger and turmeric tubers and leaves as well as a mix of foraged herbs and greens that require as long as an hour per pound to harvest, and foraged from gardens, fields, and orchard. Foraged herbs and greens may include, but is not limited to Italian parsley, clover, cutting celery, horseradish leaf, hyssop, lemon balm, wild arugula, sorrel (French, wood), dandelion, dead nettle, bronze fennel, chive, bergamot, fava bean leaf, wild chicory, radish leaf, borage, chickweed, thyme and mint." To attend the Farm + Market event, RSVP to secure a seat today. Meet your local farmer, taste local dairy prepared in several dishes, learn how Fence Stile owner-winemaker Shriti Plimpton paired dishes with wine, and take home some some wine and fresh dairy products. Farm + Market: A Fence Stile and Local Farm Food and Wine Experience Featuring Fair Share Farm, Prairie Birthday Farm and Borgman’s Dairy Farm Sunday, November 18th, 3:30-5:30 PM Welcome Glass - Enjoy a glass of apple sangria or mulled wine. First Course Sweet potato, ginger, and turmeric samosa with curry goat’s milk yogurt. Paired with Vignoles. Second Course Leek smoked with wild plum wood and lavender, grilled radish, oven-roasted turnips, and Chinese broccoli with spelt, topped with escabeche and goat’s milk cheese. Paired with Backpack Red. Third Course Honey and apple sweet grits topped with Fence Stile blackberry compote and goat’s milk caramel sauce. Paired with Vidal Blanc.    Fence Stile Vineyards and Winery is highlighting the farmers featured in our upcoming Farm + Market Local Food and Wine Experience. Tickets are still available for this exciting new wine and food event on Sunday, November 18th, 3:30-5:30 PM. $35 per person. RSVP at events@fencestile.com or call 816-500-6465. Limited seating available. Reserve a seat today! This week, meet Dr. Janet Smith of Borgman's Dairy Farm. Borgman's Dairy is a Grade A farmstead goat milk dairy located in Johnson County, Missouri. It was established in 1935 by the current owner's grandmother. Current owner Dr. Janet Smith took over operations in 2006. Borgman's Dairy primarily produces goat milk products, but is expanding to include goat meat in 2019. Dr. Smith says, "Our goat milk caramel sauce and goat cheese cheesecakes are customer favorites. We deliver to farmer's markets, grocery stores and restaurants. We have recently started to sell our products at the Black Sheep market by KU Med." Dr. Smith shares her approach to operating a dairy farm and caring for her herd of goats. "We believe that the best way to make great cheese is to start with great milk," Dr. Smith says. "We control the entire process from breeding to delivery of our product. This is the only way we can guarantee what the animals eat and drink and the quality of the finished product." Looking ahead to 2019, Borgman's Dairy Farm will begin selling goat milk cheddar cheese, gouda, while increasing sales of chevre and feta. Dr. Smith will bring goat's milk dairy products for sale at the Farm + Market wine and food event. RSVP to secure a seat today. Meet your local farmer, taste local dairy prepared in several dishes, learn how Fence Stile owner-winemaker Shriti Plimpton paired dishes with wine, and take some some wine and fresh dairy products home. Farm + Market: A Fence Stile and Local Farm Food and Wine Experience Featuring Fair Share Farm, Prairie Birthday Farm and Borgman’s Dairy Farm Sunday, November 18th, 3:30-5:30 PM Welcome Glass - Enjoy a glass of apple sangria or mulled wine. First Course Sweet potato, ginger, and turmeric samosa with curry goat’s milk yogurt. Paired with Vignoles. Second Course Leek smoked with wild plum wood and lavender, grilled radish, oven-roasted turnips, and Chinese broccoli with spelt, topped with escabeche and goat’s milk cheese. Paired with Backpack Red. Third Course Honey and apple sweet grits topped with Fence Stile blackberry compote and goat’s milk caramel sauce. Paired with Vidal Blanc.    Farm + Market: A Fence Stile and Local Farm Food and Wine Experience Featuring Fair Share Farm, Prairie Birthday Farm and Borgman’s Dairy Farm Sunday, November 18th, 3:30-5:30 PM Join us for a special event that highlights local Missouri wine and Missouri farmers! Farm + Market is a new food and wine experience from Fence Stile Vineyards and Winery that celebrates the 2018 harvest, the craft of winemaking, and the rich diversity of locally-grown and produced foods. Begin with a glass of apple sangria or mulled wine. Savor three dishes, served small plates-style, prepared using ingredients from Fair Share Farm based in Kearney, Prairie Birthday Farm based in Kearney, and Borgman's Dairy Farm based in Holden. Each dish is paired with a Fence Stile wine. Each farmer will share details about their farm and offer market goods for sale. Fence Stile owner-winemaker Shriti Plimpton and chef Pete Dulin will discuss wine and food pairings. $35 per person. RSVP at events@fencestile.com or call 816-500-6465. Limited seating available. Reserve a seat today! Welcome Glass - Enjoy a glass of apple sangria or mulled wine. First Course Sweet potato, ginger, and turmeric samosa with curry goat’s milk yogurt. Paired with Vignoles. Second Course Leek smoked with wild plum wood and lavender, grilled radish, oven-roasted turnips, and Chinese broccoli with spelt, topped with escabeche and goat’s milk cheese. Paired with Backpack Red. Third Course Honey and apple sweet grits topped with Fence Stile blackberry compote and goat’s milk caramel sauce. Paired with Vidal Blanc.  Top row: Tom Ruggieri and Rebecca Graff of Fair Share Farm. Bottom row: Linda Hezel of Prairie Birthday Farm and Dr. Janet Smith of Borgman's Dairy Farm. Below: Fence Stile Vineyards and Winery owner-winemaker Shriti Plimpton.   Fence Stile welcomed a parade of guests to the winery and crush pad for an old-fashioned grape stomping. The annual event is our way of closing out the grape harvest season. We picked Vidal Blanc, Vignoles, Seyval, Chambourcin, and Concord grapes with the help of many harvest volunteers from six acres of vineyards. The juice from this 2018 grape harvest will become future wine vintages. Grape stomping is squishy fun for all ages. Guests rolled up their pant legs and pulled up their skirts, stepped inside a tub filled with Concord grapes, and stomped away, "I Love Lucy" style. Check out the gallery of photos below and some video of grape stompers in action. Thanks to the many guests that came out, participated, and relaxed on the patio and Tasting Room on a balmy Sunday. As always, thanks to our many harvest volunteers that helped us throughout the season. In the background, Shriti's wonder-dog Kai found a playmate, Murphy, as they ran, ran, and ran more all afternoon. |
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