public farm gatherings
“Food & wine, music & storytelling, neighbors & friends, and the beauty & bounty of the land nurtures and sustains us.”
Tasting Room Opens This Saturday, May 23rd!
12-5pm
The Shepherd’s Hearth + Fable Farm Hearth Room Series
At The Shepherd’s Hearth, we elevate the sacred art of cooking with flame. We are a hyper local, hyper seasonal, 100% wood fired, mobile open fire kitchen. We curate artisan, hand made gatherings and events. Our goal is to nourish hearts and bellies and feed you as we feed our family. We believe this is authentic luxury. As long-time farmers ourselves, we know good practices and take the time to connect with the farmers we work with, to understand their needs and source the best Vermont has to offer.
Fable Farm & Fermentory is a dream collaboration and partner. Not only are we able to source directly from the land we’ll be cooking on, we also have the opportunity to pair our culinary offerings with Fable’s singular, living, wild fermented wines and ciders! Each glass hums with the mineral, microbial, and seasonal vitality of the farm - bright, tart, food-loving, and alive. Throughout the Hearth Room Series, each meal will be centered on what Fable Farm has coming out of the gardens, fields, and cellar. This is terroir, a true taste of place. This is Terroir, Taste of Place.
At 5pm the evening begins with a private wine cave tour, led by a Fable wine steward the winemaker, with 3 exclusive tastings. You'll then Then you’ll be brought be welcomed into the Hearth Room, with a stunning brick hearth and wood fired oven, oak wine barrels, and drenched in beeswax candles, with a natural tablescape adorned with seasonal flowers. The evening is drenched in the glow of beeswax candles. and flowers adorning it. You can feel the intention in each and every detail as the music cascades around you. For this unique culinary pilgrimage. You’re seated right in front of the hearth, in community and simplicity gathered around the fire and table, watching the chefs create their magic. You get an open kitchen, watching the season’s unique bounty prepared and cooked from scratch. The Chef delivers your meal with the story of each ingredient, plated on beautiful, locally made Deep Woods Pottery. It’s Omakase style. You give your trust to the Chef, and each course becomes a surprise and a conversation piece. The wine steward maker then shares about each crafting as it is poured, while you enjoy three thoughtfully paired wines or ciders alongside your six-course meal. as he pours your glass and you get to enjoy three wine pairings with your 6 course meal. You’re taken through a 3 hour culinary experience, where the land you’re on has cultivated the flavors you enjoy. This is an experience of living food and living wines.
Join us and let your bare hands hold the fruits of passion poured out. This is authentic luxury - real, grounded, beauty.
Ticket price includes all taxes, gratuity, etc.
Pictures by: Luna Munn Photography @lunamunn
Summer 2026 Feast & Field
Spring at Fable: A Season of Mutual Support
This spring, we’re inviting our community to support the season ahead through a new way of participating in Feast & Field: Community Supported Dining Shares.
Spring asks a great deal of small farms. After the long quiet of winter comes the sudden rush of seeds, repairs, fieldwork, staffing, and all the unseen labor that makes a growing season possible.
When Fable Farm began in 2008 through a CSA model, our hope was simple: to build something rooted in mutual support between farm and community, each helping feed the life of the other. That spirit remains very much alive in what we do now.
Introducing Fable Farm’s Community Supported Dining Shares
For our neighbors, we’re offering a new way to simplify your summer while supporting the farm: Community Supported Dining Shares. For those farther away, you can still participate through the Fable Farm Wine Club, details on our wine club are listed below!
These shares function as a prepaid dining tab for the Feast & Field season. By purchasing early, you provide the essential resources—labor, seeds, and infrastructure—that a small farm needs to build momentum. In exchange, your summer meals are already taken care of.
How It Works - Your share acts as a credit. Simply show up, give your name, and enjoy. You can bring guests or add to your balance at any time throughout the season.
Why Prepay? - Beyond the convenience of a "running tab," your commitment is a direct investment in the resilience of local agriculture. It allows us to grow with stability and intention from the very beginning.
Whether you’ve been with us since the early CSA days or are just joining us, we are deeply grateful. This farm is sustained by the land and the people who believe in it.
A celebration of music, food, & community
The entity that hosts Feast & Field is called the Feast & Field Collective. We are a collective of farms that have joined forces in an attempt to sustain an agricultural-rural economy and culture. Embracing value-added processing, as well as diversifying income streams have been essential for small farms to find true economic sustainability. Fable Farm turns the fruit they grow into living wines and vinegars and Kiss The Cow Farm turns their milk into ice cream! Eastman Farm’s beef and pork, together with Fable Farm’s vegetables and Chicken, are the staple ingredients for our Feast & Field food offerings.
These three farms are also working cooperatively to steward the historic farms of Barnard’s idyllic Broad Brook Basin, keeping the land open and productive for generations to come. The collective is committed to real organic, regenerative agricultural practices with an emphasis on maintaining intimacy between people and the land. Our intention is to use our farming enterprises as a means to reconnect to the rhythms of Nature, not only for ourselves and our families, but for the community at large.
FEAST & FIELD
See our schedule, get tickets, and learn more at Feast & Field.
Tasting Room Opens for the Season May 23rd!
12-5pm
Sip, savor, and explore our living wines and ciders with curated flights and a seasonal menu designed for both hearty meals and lighter fare.
Whether you're gathering for a laid-back lunch, an early dinner, or something in between, enjoy open-air dining in the orchard or the inviting atmosphere of our historic tasting barn. Saturdays are for discovering the unique expressions of our craft—where every pour tells the story of the land.
Select Saturdays feature private dinners with themed conversations, guided tours of the winery and orchard, and opportunities to book intimate, behind-the-scenes experiences.
SATURDAY TASTING ROOM
In addition to our rotating selection of artisanal pizzas, our expanded menu will continue celebrating seasonal vegetables and meats from the farm, with the addition of inspired offerings featuring fresh-ground masa from Nando at Moon and Stars in South Royalton, VT.
Whether you’re in the mood for a leisurely lunch, an early dinner, or small bites paired with curated flights from our full lineup of Fable’s living wines and ciders, it’s the perfect way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
Saturdays are for discovering the unique expressions of our craft—where every pour tells a story of the land.
New this year, we’re introducing Private Tasting Room Events. These gatherings are available by appointment and designed for smaller, more intimate groups. For winter bookings, we’re offering $50 off a private tasting room event. Scheduling is flexible, with excellent winter availability, the base rental includes a curated bottle/meal package with optional add-ons
RUMNEY SESSIONS
An extension of Feast & Field - where summer’s spirit burns bright through the fall and winter.
Rumney Sessions is our way of keeping the fires of community spirit burning beyond the summer months. “Rumney Sessions”, is the extended edition of the beloved “Feast & Field” event. Join us on Thursday evenings during the fall and winter at Fable Farm, for a spirited celebration of community; local, organic food & drink, and local music - by musicians or collective jam sessions. While the fires blaze, togetherness and music fill the orchard; in the Rumney Barn, we invite you to savor wood-fired flatbread pizzas, hearty soup, craft cocktails, and Fable Farm Fermentory wines and ciders - some warmed!
