- Event date:October 13, 2024 at 5:00 PM
- Event end:October 13, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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Join farmer Brent Barry at the farm table October 13 for discussion on Wendell Berry’s classic “The Unsettling of America.” Enjoy farm-to-table dining on scrumptious local food and inspiring discussion with Barry and others working to help people rethink how they eat.
This dinner is one of a series at Sister Grove Farm that is carefully crafted around the discussion of important writings on food justice, farming, and community. Conversation will be shared around a table laden with good local food from neighboring farmers in the Van Alstyne area, just north of McKinney.
Farming as a Cultural and Spiritual Discipline
Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic. Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline.
He notes that modern agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, this nation is more estranged from the land—and from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it.
About the Speaker
Come listen to Barry’s commentary on this piece as a regenerative farmer at Stout Creek Farm.
As the farm’s website says: “Our city slicker family officially took the leap to ranching and farming in 2018! We now live on 600 sprawling acres in Northeast Texas and have dedicated ourselves to healing the land on our little piece of earth, while evoking the very best food from it.
For many years we were disconnected from our food. As far as we were concerned, steak was whipped up at Central Market and broccoli was made at Whole Foods. Now we know exactly where our food comes from and although you may not be ready to take the farming leap, we want you to know exactly where your food comes from too.”
With Live Music!
Live music will be sprinkled through evening with help from friends at The Gar Hole, a live music hotspot in Anna, Texas.
About the Dinner
Dinners will be casual and participants are welcome to bring any beverages their choice or any dishes of their own to add to the table. You are also welcome to just bring an appetite, and there will be a full plate ready for you.
Curious about other events at Sister Grove Farm? Consider Discuss “Scrimpin’ and Scrapin'” With Author Blair-Lavallais November 17
How to Book
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For any booking questions, reach out by chat or email support@delveexperiences.com. If unable to attend all three dinners of your discounted package, you can give or sell your unused tickets, or we can assist with offering to a local farmer with advance notice. Please note any dietary restrictions upon booking.
These dinners require significant preparations and tickets are nonrefundable.
“The Unsettling of America”
Commentary by Farmer Brent Barry
Sunday October 13, 5-8 pm
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Hosted By Sister Grove Farm
Sister Grove Farm is committed to building community: where strangers become neighbors and neighbors become friends. Where this happens is at the table. And with locally sourced food, the transformation reaches beyond just the people at the table.
The farm is 149 acres of rolling blackland prairie just 45 miles north of Dallas. Nestled along the east prong of Sister Grove Creek on the ancestral lands of the Wichita people, this patch of earth is now cared for by Rodney and Sarah Macias as a regenerative farm and small retreat center.
The land was once owned by Collin McKinney, oldest signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, and an 1859 farmhouse (restored as one of our accommodations) was home to his son and daughter in law, Younger Scott McKinney and Sarah Janes McKinney. The farmhouse can accommodate up to 9 people but is also perfect for a solo or couple’s get-away.
The farm also features two communally designed guesthouses and an indoor group-use space with a commercial kitchen and everything needed for meetings and dining.
Using holistic grazing and regenerative approaches to agriculture, Sister Grove Farm raises grass-fed cattle and sheep along with heritage breed chickens. Joining the farm in these tasks are two livestock guardian dogs and one barn cat.
At Sister Grove, the farm's mission is to “grow and raise a diversity of plant and animal species for food and beauty in such a manner that the land is healed along with all who visit and live here.”