2024 Farm to Table Dinner

This year’s Farm to Table Dinner was a huge success and a great evening! Details regarding the 2025 dinner will be released soon.

Thank you to everyone involved!

12th Jonesborough Farm to Table Dinner

Saturday, August 24th at 6:30 pm

Update 6/5/24, 9:15 am - Members came out in force this morning! Tickets are currently sold out. We anticipate being able to release some tickets to the waiting list in July. Sign up using the button below.

If you were unable to get tickets but still want to be a part of this great evening, please consider volunteering! Tasks include set-up, serving, washing dishes, clean-up, and more! Sign up using these Google Forms:

Adults 18+: here.

Students/Under 18: here.

Please feel free to send these forms to your friends!

Taking place on Saturday, August 24th at 6:30 pm, the dinner will feature all local ingredients for the dinner of 200+ guests.

Special thanks to Chef Alex and Breelyn Bomba of Main Street Catering for designing and preparing the meal - and of course helping organize the dinner!

Tickets will go on sale in late May/early June to special groups, including Jonesborough Locally Grown members. If there are any tickets left, they will go on sale to the public on June 19th. Sign up for our newsletter to keep updated! We will have a waiting list as there may be some tickets come available in the few weeks before the dinner.

Tickets are $150 per person and are restricted to persons 21 years of age or older - alcohol will be served! As this is our largest fundraiser of the year, tickets are non-refundable.

Due to the size of this event and logistics on the day of, accommodating dietary restrictions is extremely difficult. Be forewarned that most courses may contain some animal products (like meat or eggs), dairy, and wheat - either directly or by being prepared near these items. Please email Lori at the contact information below to inquire.

VOLUNTEERS for set-up, serving, take-down and more are needed! Adults, sign up here. Students, sign up here. Please feel free to send these forms to your friends!

If you have any questions or concerns; would like to get on the waiting list; or volunteer at the dinner, please contact Emily Lamb at emily@jonesboroughlocallygrown.org. If you would like to sponsor the dinner, please contact to Lori Powell at lori@jonesboroughlocallygrown.org.

2024 menu:

Welcome Appetizers: Bacon, Caramelized Onion, and Cheese Flatbreads; Mushroom Duxelle with Feta and Onion Crostini

Salad: Heirloom Tomato, Micro Lettuce; Goat Cheese Mousse; Basil Vinaigrette

Appetizer: Merguez; Corn Salad; Sage Brown Butter

Soup: Chilled Melon Soup; Mint Cream

Main Course: Cornish Game Hen; Cheddar Grits; Piperade

Dessert: Flourless Chocolate Cake; Berry Sauce; Sweet Cream

*Please note: food prepared for this dinner may contain, or was prepared near, common food allergies/intolerances such as dairy, egg, wheat, and peanut.

Music will be provided by Océan Bleu with Ashley Mumpower

and

Lee, Emily & Willis Bidgood.

A storied tradition . . .

The Farm to Table Dinner came to Jonesborough in 2011, thanks to the vision of Chef Alex Bomba, Alex’s wife Breelyn, and Breelyn’s parents Herman and Beverly Jenkins (who together owned and operated Main Street Cafe and Catering).

It was their idea to bring a large farm-to-table dinner to town, staging it right at the site of the Jonesborough Farmers Market at the time. With a huge harvest table right on Main Street, using ingredients sourced from the farmers market, all proceeds were donated from the event to the farmers market. The first dinner served 100 guests and was a huge success. More tickets were added year by year, with all selling out extremely fast.

Now, the dinner serves 224 and is the largest fundraiser for Jonesborough Locally Grown, a 501(c)(3) non-profit running Jonesborough Farmers Market and Boone Street Market. The markets strive to keep vendor fees low and making sure the vendor keeps 75%+ of each dollar spent, compared to 14.9% nationally. It’s fundraisers like this that ensure we get to continue giving back as much as possible to the local food economy year after year!

View the 2011-2018 Dinner Galleries

These photos were taken by Amanda Churchill of Woven Creative Studios.