The Fall Gathering is postponed until October 9th due to inclement weather.
This event is sold out. Please contact the office at (757) 442-5885 to be placed on the waitlist.
The Fall Gathering will be held on the beautiful porch at Look East Farm. The porch wraps around 7/8ths of the house and is about 8-10 feet deep. The house faces East as is suggested by its name. Dinner and drinks will be included. Dinner is casual, buffet style and is catered by Amy Brandt. The Gathering will be held on October 2nd (rain date will be Oct. 9th). Tickets are $100 per person and will be limited to 60 guests.
Menu (will be partially subject to seasonal availability)
Roasted Salmon with roasted tomato butter over fall succotash and sweet potato hash
Eastern Shore of Virginia Oyster Pie
Smoked Beef Brisket Chili with toppings bar
Amy’s Tomato and Goat Cheese Tarts with fresh basil
Fall Salad of roast butternut, acorn and delicata squash with roast pears, arugula, puffed quinoa and toasted pumpkin and sunflower seeds served with maple vinaigrette
Cornbread Yeast Rolls with whipped butter
Scratch Green Bean and Shiitake Mushroom Casserole with onion crisps
Amy’s Carrot Cake with cream cheese buttercream icing
Apple Slab Pie
Warm Apple Cider Donuts
About Look East Farm
Susan and Phil Harris looked for a property to “save” from demolition for over two years with no success. “One day we drove up the driveway of this house and saw the porch,” said Susan, “It is the ‘room’ of the house that we live in the most, almost year-round.” They spent a year renovating. But it’s a 100 plus year-old home and “care of an old house is a never-ending act of love,” Susan said. They kept as much of the original home as possible to conserve natural resources, save landfill space, and preserve the beauty of the original building materials, which were largely milled from the 150-acre original farm.
Susan and Phil also met the grandson of the man that started building this home in 1917 and formed a wonderful friendship based on the love of the farm. “He gave us pieces of furniture that his grandfather had in our home and because his grandmother had red geraniums throughout the house and on the porch, we do as well,” said Susan.
The name Look East Farm comes from the orientation of the home and from a bible verse that references coming from the East, which Susan explains is a reminder to us to live a life of thoughtful preparation.
Look East Farm is protected by a conservation easement with The Nature Conservancy. Susan Harris is on the Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust Board of Directors.
