Hosted by lifestyle expert and garden designer P. Allen Smith, the Tale of Two Farms Herbs & Roses Festival promises to be an unforgettable affair featuring a menu that showcases fresh-picked herbs, plus a sneak peek of the newly planted rose garden at the Garden Home Retreat!
Benefiting TheOxford American magazine and the Heritage Poultry Conservancy, the Tale of Two Farms Herbs & Roses Festival will welcome chef Jerry Traunfeld, owner of Poppy restaurant in Seattle, for a five-star, straight-from-the-garden culinary experience. Chef Traunfeld received the James Beard Award for Best American Chef: Northwest and Hawaii in 2000, and is the author of The Herbfarm Cookbook and The Herbal Kitchen: Cooking with Fragrance and Flavor. “Two things have always inspired my cooking: my garden full of herbs and the fantastic local foods of my region. I’ve always found that the foods and herbs that come into season together always taste best together,” says Traunfeld, who is also a 2011 semifinalist for the James Beard Outstanding Chef Award. “This spring I’ll be cooking out of Allen’s amazing garden, with the seasonal foods of both his region and mine, and I’m very excited about it.”
The evening begins with live music, a reception and martini tasting featuring Arkansas’ own Brandon’s gin and vodka, and a tour of the Garden Home Retreat, which overlooks the Arkansas River Valley. During the tour, guests will be treated to a special first look at the new rose garden, which boasts the most comprehensive collection of Noisette roses in the country, Knock Out® Roses, Drift® Roses and a wide range of superb new, low-maintenance varieties in classical rose types. Noisettes were the first American class of roses, bred in Charleston, South Carolina in the early 1800s. “This rose garden is not just a celebration of the first American class of roses, but the evolution of American roses as well,” Smith says. “The combination of Noisette and The Knock Out® Family of Roses paints an extraordinary picture of American rose breeding.”
The Knock Out® Family of Roses took the gardening world by storm when the first member, The Knock Out® Rose, was introduced in 2000 by the Conard-Pyle Co./Star® Roses. Easy care, very disease resistant, cold hardy and heat tolerant, The Knock Out® Family of Roses are the most popular roses in the U.S. “We are excited to get our first look at P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Retreat Rose Garden,” said Steve Hutton, president of Conard-Pyle. “It is an honor that Knock Out® and Drift® Roses are being showcased in such a beautiful setting.”
Peggy Cornett, curator of plants at Thomas Jefferson, will be on-hand to help Smith officially open the rose garden. Cornett will be also giving a lecture entitled “Historic Roses at Monticello” at the Clinton School of Public Service on Friday, May 13 at noon. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Tickets for the Tale of Two Farms Herbs & Roses Festival are $350 per couple and $200 per person. For reservations and more information, visit http://www.pallensmith.com/events/tale-of-two-farms-herb-festival or contact gardenhome@pallensmith.com.
About P. Allen Smith : P. Allen Smith is an award-winning lifestyle designer and garden expert and host of the public television program P. Allen Smith's Garden Home and the syndicated 30-minute show P. Allen Smith Gardens , and the upcoming P. Allen Smith’s Garden to Table, also on public television. Smith is one of America's most recognized and respected garden design experts, providing ideas and inspiration through multiple media venues. He is the author of the best-selling Garden Home series of books published by Clarkson Potter/Random House, including Bringing the Garden Indoors: Container, Crafts and Bouquets for Every Room, published in 2009. His latest book, P. Allen Smith's Seasonal Recipes from the Garden, was released in December 2010. Smith is also a regular contributor on NBC's The TODAY Show. Inspired by a childhood spent on the farm raising and showing livestock and poultry and since then a life of promoting good stewardship of the earth, in 2009 Smith founded the Heritage Poultry Conservancy, an organization dedicated to the preservation and support of all threatened breeds of domestic poultry. Visit his website at www.pallensmith.com or connect with the P. Allen Smith team at twitter.com/pallensmith.
About The Conard-Pyle Co.: From the Peace rose to the revolutionary Knock Out® and Drift® roses, The Conard-Pyle Co. has been a pioneer in the field of plant development and introduction for more than 100 years. Founded in 1897 as a retail mail order firm specializing in roses, Conard-Pyle has evolved from a wholesale container nursery to a leading genetics company involved directly in breeding roses, perennials and woody plants, and introducing plants from other breeders around the world. To learn more about The Conard-Pyle Co., please visit http://www.conard-pyle.com/ or on Facebook .
About The Oxford American : The Oxford American is a national magazine based in Arkansas that is dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South. Billed as “The Southern Magazine of Good Writing,” it has won two National Magazine Awards and other high honors since it began publication in 1992. The magazine has featured the original work of such literary powerhouses as Charles Portis, Roy Blount, Jr., ZZ Packer, Donald Harington, Donna Tartt, Ernest J. Gaines, and many other distinguished authors, while also discovering and launching the most promising writers in the region. The magazine has also published previously unseen work by such Southern masters as William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, James Agee, Zora Neale Hurston, James Dickey, Carson McCullers, to name just a handful. The New York Times recently stated that The Oxford American “may be the liveliest literary magazine in America.” www.oxfordamerican.org.
About the Heritage Poultry Conservancy : The Heritage Poultry Conservancy is an organization dedicated to the preservation and support of all threatened breeds and strains of domestic poultry though the encouragement of education, stewardship and good breeding practices. www.heritagepoultry.org.
Benefiting TheOxford American magazine and the Heritage Poultry Conservancy, the Tale of Two Farms Herbs & Roses Festival will welcome chef Jerry Traunfeld, owner of Poppy restaurant in Seattle, for a five-star, straight-from-the-garden culinary experience. Chef Traunfeld received the James Beard Award for Best American Chef: Northwest and Hawaii in 2000, and is the author of The Herbfarm Cookbook and The Herbal Kitchen: Cooking with Fragrance and Flavor. “Two things have always inspired my cooking: my garden full of herbs and the fantastic local foods of my region. I’ve always found that the foods and herbs that come into season together always taste best together,” says Traunfeld, who is also a 2011 semifinalist for the James Beard Outstanding Chef Award. “This spring I’ll be cooking out of Allen’s amazing garden, with the seasonal foods of both his region and mine, and I’m very excited about it.”
The evening begins with live music, a reception and martini tasting featuring Arkansas’ own Brandon’s gin and vodka, and a tour of the Garden Home Retreat, which overlooks the Arkansas River Valley. During the tour, guests will be treated to a special first look at the new rose garden, which boasts the most comprehensive collection of Noisette roses in the country, Knock Out® Roses, Drift® Roses and a wide range of superb new, low-maintenance varieties in classical rose types. Noisettes were the first American class of roses, bred in Charleston, South Carolina in the early 1800s. “This rose garden is not just a celebration of the first American class of roses, but the evolution of American roses as well,” Smith says. “The combination of Noisette and The Knock Out® Family of Roses paints an extraordinary picture of American rose breeding.”
The Knock Out® Family of Roses took the gardening world by storm when the first member, The Knock Out® Rose, was introduced in 2000 by the Conard-Pyle Co./Star® Roses. Easy care, very disease resistant, cold hardy and heat tolerant, The Knock Out® Family of Roses are the most popular roses in the U.S. “We are excited to get our first look at P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Retreat Rose Garden,” said Steve Hutton, president of Conard-Pyle. “It is an honor that Knock Out® and Drift® Roses are being showcased in such a beautiful setting.”
Peggy Cornett, curator of plants at Thomas Jefferson, will be on-hand to help Smith officially open the rose garden. Cornett will be also giving a lecture entitled “Historic Roses at Monticello” at the Clinton School of Public Service on Friday, May 13 at noon. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Tickets for the Tale of Two Farms Herbs & Roses Festival are $350 per couple and $200 per person. For reservations and more information, visit http://www.pallensmith.com/events/tale-of-two-farms-herb-festival or contact gardenhome@pallensmith.com.
About P. Allen Smith : P. Allen Smith is an award-winning lifestyle designer and garden expert and host of the public television program P. Allen Smith's Garden Home and the syndicated 30-minute show P. Allen Smith Gardens , and the upcoming P. Allen Smith’s Garden to Table, also on public television. Smith is one of America's most recognized and respected garden design experts, providing ideas and inspiration through multiple media venues. He is the author of the best-selling Garden Home series of books published by Clarkson Potter/Random House, including Bringing the Garden Indoors: Container, Crafts and Bouquets for Every Room, published in 2009. His latest book, P. Allen Smith's Seasonal Recipes from the Garden, was released in December 2010. Smith is also a regular contributor on NBC's The TODAY Show. Inspired by a childhood spent on the farm raising and showing livestock and poultry and since then a life of promoting good stewardship of the earth, in 2009 Smith founded the Heritage Poultry Conservancy, an organization dedicated to the preservation and support of all threatened breeds of domestic poultry. Visit his website at www.pallensmith.com or connect with the P. Allen Smith team at twitter.com/pallensmith.
About The Conard-Pyle Co.: From the Peace rose to the revolutionary Knock Out® and Drift® roses, The Conard-Pyle Co. has been a pioneer in the field of plant development and introduction for more than 100 years. Founded in 1897 as a retail mail order firm specializing in roses, Conard-Pyle has evolved from a wholesale container nursery to a leading genetics company involved directly in breeding roses, perennials and woody plants, and introducing plants from other breeders around the world. To learn more about The Conard-Pyle Co., please visit http://www.conard-pyle.com/ or on Facebook .
About The Oxford American : The Oxford American is a national magazine based in Arkansas that is dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South. Billed as “The Southern Magazine of Good Writing,” it has won two National Magazine Awards and other high honors since it began publication in 1992. The magazine has featured the original work of such literary powerhouses as Charles Portis, Roy Blount, Jr., ZZ Packer, Donald Harington, Donna Tartt, Ernest J. Gaines, and many other distinguished authors, while also discovering and launching the most promising writers in the region. The magazine has also published previously unseen work by such Southern masters as William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, James Agee, Zora Neale Hurston, James Dickey, Carson McCullers, to name just a handful. The New York Times recently stated that The Oxford American “may be the liveliest literary magazine in America.” www.oxfordamerican.org.
About the Heritage Poultry Conservancy : The Heritage Poultry Conservancy is an organization dedicated to the preservation and support of all threatened breeds and strains of domestic poultry though the encouragement of education, stewardship and good breeding practices. www.heritagepoultry.org.