Bring Your Appetite
Harvestville Farm is excited to announce this year’s Farm-to-Table Dinners for the 2025 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
2025 Farm-to-Table Dinner Dates
Saturday, April 12 at 6pm
Featuring Chef
Bart Manning
Acclaimed Chef in Southeast Iowa that Exemplifies Fine Dining
Martini’s Grille – Burlington, IA
Friday, 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
PLEASE NOTE – This dinner is on a Friday Evening
Saturday, May 3 at 6pm
Featuring Chef
Tessa Crookshanks
Iowa Restaurant Association 2024 Top 40 Women to Watch Award Winner
Maxwell’s on the River at The Merrill Hotel • Muscatine, IA
Saturday, May 10 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, May 17 at 6pm - Wine Pairing Dinner
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
SOMMELIER
Layne Shottenkirk
Level 3 Sommelier – making her just 1 in 10,000 in the world with this certification
Verve Imports – Quincy, IL
Saturday, June 7 at 6pm
Featuring Chef
Grant Gillon
Winner of MasterChef: United Tastes of America with Gordon Ramsay
2023 MasterChef Winner – Altoona, Iowa
Saturday, June 28 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, July 12 at 6pm
Featuring Chef
Lynn Pritchard
A renowned Des Moines chef who has turned into an icon with a celebrity-like following, is celebrated for his innovative cuisine and dedication to elevating the local dining scene. Lynn’s talents were most recently celebrated in Catch Des Moines 2025 Visitor’s Guide Magazine
Table 128 – Des Moines, IA
Hugo’s Wood Fired Kitchen – Des Moines, IA
Saturday, August 2 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, August 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
Friday, September 26 at 6pm
Featuring Chef
Jessica 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 9!
All dinners are sold out for the 2025 season
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 9 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.
