Harvestville Farm is excited to announce this year’s Farm-to-Table Dinners for the 2026 season! Our award winning Farm-to-Table Dinners feature fresh produce picked straight from our garden, along with locally grown fruits, vegetables, and meats prepared by area chefs within our regional community. Seasonal menus are chosen as collaborations between each chef and our farm to enhance our guest’s dining experience through incredible flavors, textures, and vibrant color presentations.
Farm-to-Table Dinners are a wonderful way to have a truly authentic dining experience set within Southeast Iowa’s beautiful countryside. Each dinner consists of a five-course meal, along with a beautiful atmosphere, great conversation, a cocktail bar and wonderful music!
Top Rated
Rated "#1 Farm to Table Dinner Experience" in the state by Travel Iowa
Also featured in “Country Sampler Farmhouse Style Magazine” Fall 2020 and Additionally Featured in Travel Iowa
Won “Best Rural Dining Experience” in Iowa by Travel Iowa in 2023.
Menus are announced within a few weeks of each dinner via email to reserved guests as the menu is dependent on what is available in our garden at the time of each dinner. Each table holds six guests.
Once again this season, a full-service cash bar featuring bourbon, mixed drinks, wines by the glass and by the bottle, along with a selection of mocktails will be available at each dinner.
Our Farm-to-Table Dinners are limited to 60 guests in order to maintain an intimate dining experience.
Photos Courtesy of Eyris Photography
2026 Farm-to-Table Dinner Dates
Saturday, April 18 at 6pm
Featuring Chef
Grant Gillon
Winner of MasterChef: United Tastes of America with Gordon Ramsay
2023 MasterChef Winner – Altoona, Iowa
Sunday, April 19 at 6pm
Featuring Chef
Grant Gillon
Winner of MasterChef: United Tastes of America with Gordon Ramsay
2023 MasterChef Winner – Altoona, Iowa
PLEASE NOTE – this dinner is held on a Sunday evening
Saturday, April 25 at 6pm
Featuring Chef
Aaron Holt
Recipient of the 2018 Iowa Restaurant Association Chef of the Year, Winner of 2019 Morsel Combat Award, and Winner of 2022 Superior Chef Award “Taste” Competition
Doolittle Farm – Story City
Saturday, May 16 at 6pm
Featuring Chef
Ashley Phillips
Chef Ashley is a dynamic chef from Ankeny, IA and graduated from culinary school in Austin, Texas, in 2012. In 2022, Chef Ashley traded in her traditional Chef hat for her signature backwards baseball cap and founded her own company, Chef A LLC, specializing in private events and Farm-to-Table Dinners
Chef A LLC – Des Moines, Iowa
Saturday, May 30 at 6pm
Featuring Chef
Jose Escanio
Renowned Chef with a resume that has spanned from Puerto Rico, Michelin Star Restaurant Group in New York, Rio Grande, and Orlando
Timberghost Hunting Lodge – Mediapolis, IA
Saturday, June 20 at 6pm
Featuring Chef
MacKenzie Sopel
Private Chef & Morning Sous Chef at Harbinger
Harbinger – Des Moines, IA
Saturday, June 27 at 6pm
Optional Bourbon Pairing Add-On
Featuring Chef
Tessa Cardoza
Iowa Restaurant Association 2024 Top 40 Women to Watch Award Winner, 1st place winner at The Iowa Restaurant Association Culinary Competition and Executive Chef at Maxwell’s on the River at The Merrill Hotel – Muscatine, IA
This dinner will also have the option for an Optional Bourbon Flight including: Buffalo Trace Harvestville Farm Barrel Pick, Eagle Rare, Blanton’s, Weller Special Reserve and EH Taylor Small Batch
Saturday, July 11 at 6pm
Featuring Chef
Mary Jane Miller
Indianola native Mary Jane Miller has cooked for politicians, celebrity chefs and television viewers. Throughout her career she has developed recipes for major food corporations, created cookbooks and written menus for popular coffee chains.
Private Chef – Indianola, IA
Saturday, July 18 at 6pm
Featuring Chef
James Arbaugh
Co-founder of Violet Hill Farm in Barnum, Iowa, a family-owned farm offering dinners, culinary classes, and private events.
Violet Hill Farm – Barnum, Iowa
Saturday, August 1 at 6pm
Featuring Chef
Kevin Scharpf
2022 James Beard Foundation Awards Semifinalist
for Best Chef: Midwest
2019 Iowa Chef of the Year
2016 FSR Magazine’s “40 Under 40” Rising Stars
Chef and Owner of Brazen Open Kitchen & Bar – Dubuque, Iowa.
Saturday, August 8 at 6pm
Featuring Chef
Jacob Schroeder
Culinary Chef that has worked in both Fine Dining and Michelin-Starred restaurants across Denver, Portugal, & Germany
Crafted Food Services – Des Moines, IA
Moxie Kitchen + Events – Des Moines, IA
Saturday, August 22 at 6pm
Featuring Chef
Anthony Nace
Recipient of the 2024 Iowa Restaurant Association Chef of the Year,
2024 People’s Choice and 2nd overall at the Iowa Restaurant Associations Culinary Competition, and 2023 First person to win all 3 categories of the Iowa Restaurant Associations Culinary Competition
Hotel Des Moines Downtown – Des Moines, IA
Saturday, September 19 at 6pm - Wine Pairing Dinner
Featuring Chef
Grant Gillon
Winner of MasterChef: United Tastes of America with Gordon Ramsay
2023 MasterChef Winner – Altoona, Iowa
SOMMELIER
Layne Shottenkirk
Level 3 Sommelier – making her just 1 in 10,000 in the world with this certification
Verve Imports – Quincy, IL
Friday, September 25 at 6pm
Featuring Chef
Jess Baldus
Iowa Restaurant Association 2020 Top 40 Women to Watch Award Winner. On a national level, Chef Jess appeared on the Food Network’s “Supermarket Stakeout” in 2023
Taste – Osage, IA
Piggyback Smoke Shack – Osage, IA
The Market-Osage – Osage, IA
The Bakery – Osage, IA
PLEASE NOTE – This dinner is on a Friday evening –
Reservations Open at 7pm on March 8
All dinners are sold out - If you wish to be added to our waitlist please send us an email with your contact information
Coming from a distance?
Why Not Make A Weekend Out of It!
Guests of Harvestville Farm receive a significant discount when booking a stay at Cobblestone Inn & Suites in nearby Historic Fort Madison, as well as Catfish Bend Casino in our neighboring community of Burlington. Simply call and state you are attending a Harvestville Farm to Table Dinner and/or Event and the discount is immediately applied! It’s that simple!
Guests must call Cobblestone Inn & Suites or Catfish Bend Casino when making a reservation in order to receive the discount.
Additional Info & Polices
Reservations
Reservations for any of the above Farm-to-Table Dinners will be made available beginning Sunday, March 8 at 7pm by clicking on the link here. Reservations are secured on a first come, first serve basis. Once reservations are made through Eventbrite, each guest who made the reservation(s), will be contacted via phone, within two – three weeks from the time the reservation was made for a credit card number to fully secure the Farm-to-Table Dinner reservation(s). The credit card number will be used only to hold the reservation(s). Payment will be required in FULL the night of each Farm-to-Table Dinner attended.
Cancellations
Cancellations must be made two weeks prior to each Farm-to-Table Dinner in order to avoid being charged. Cancellations made within the two-week time frame will be charged 1/2 amount of your total reservation amount. Cancellations within 1 week of the event will incur the full cost of your reservations being charged to your credit card.
Dress Code
Dress attire for our Farm-to-Table Dinners is evening casual. Please Note: Our barn is not air conditioned, so please dress appropriate for warmer conditions, however, the barn always gets a nice breeze each evening. Fans are placed throughout the barn on warmer evenings to keep the air moving.