Purchase your tickets for Sauk Valley Grown: Farm to Table Dinner & Tours by September 3rd. Seats are $50 per person. Free onsite childcare for ages 6mo+ is provided during dinner by the WACC Early Childhood Education Class. Purchase your tickets at this link by Thursday!
Event Details:
Grow your appetite while visiting a number of local farms before visiting Whiteside Area Career Center for dinner at 5 p.m.
The students of the WACC Culinary Arts Program will be curating, planning, preparing, and presenting a delicious dinner on Sept. 10th. The meal will feature a main course of prime rib and dishes made with local ingredients, such as organically grown mushrooms, carrots, potatoes, apples, and other fresh garden produce.
Tours are included in the ticket price and are optional. You are welcome to pick and choose which tours to attend after registration, as long as seats remain. You must be registered to attend farm tours.
Farm Tour Line-up:
- 9:00-10:00 a.m.: Roots Market, 21205 Lincoln Rd, Sterling, IL, tour length: 45min-1hr, 15 seats
- 10:15-11:15 a.m.: JL Acres, 17505 Polo Rd, Sterling, IL 61081, tour length: 1hr+ based on interest, 30 seats
- 1:00-1:45 p.m.: S & J Hobby Farms, 1628 Lee Center Rd, Amboy, IL 61310, tour length: 45min, 20 seats
- 2:00-3:00 p.m.: All Good Things Lavender, 1489 East Amboy Rd, Amboy, IL, tour length: 1hr, 25 seats
- 3:30-4:30 p.m.: Hohlen Homestead, 536 Palmyra Rd, Dixon, IL. tour length: 1hr, 30 seats
- 4:00-5:00 p.m.: WACC Tour, tour length: 1hr, 40 seats
- 5:00 p.m. Dinner at WACC, 40 seats
They hope to see you there!
