Churchview Farm

12/13/2024

As the holidays rush onwards, we wanted to take a moment to look forward to the celebrations that warmer months will bring. Between our Dinner Series events at the Farm, we also host private birthday parties, anniversaries, corporate dinners, fundraisers, showers, and the most lovely intimate weddings. All of our events include the same bespoke details that you see at our dinners, from our flower arrangements & vintage tableware to our talented catering partners & thoughtful staff. If you’d like to plan something, you can use the “Celebrate With Us” tab on our website to give Alison (our Event Maven) a shout and she’ll fill you in with all of the details ✨Bookings for May-September are filling up, but we’d love to squeeze you in! [Photo credit to 😍 from one of our favorite weddings of 2024]

12/13/2024

12/06/2024

leaning in to fresh & preserved harvests for holiday festivities 🎄 ⁣
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harvests are slim this time of year, but the chickens don’t go on vaycay so fresh eggs are always available (albeit at a significantly slower pace) 😴🥚⁣
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I love pickling these in a brine with a few raw peeled beets (that I chiseled out of the frozen ground this week 🥶) and using them for deviled eggs. these beauties are on the menu for an upcoming holiday party 🥂⁣
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something else to consider for your winter festivities is gifting jars of preserves you’ve made during the season. for our CVF holiday party, these are displayed near the entrance with fresh greens so guests can grab a jar on their way out. ⁣
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happy party season, friends ☃️❄️⁣

11/15/2024

the 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟻 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘋𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 is 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁, friends, but there’s so much more to come at the Farm next season so please stay tuned!⁣
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Churchview is a space to gather, to find kinship & solidarity, to enjoy beautiful food, and to learn & engage. everyone who joins us here, from our chefs and their teams to our guests, is supporting education and this amazing community. ⁣
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we exist because of you, and we’re grateful. see you next season in the sunshine ☀️⁣
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~Tara, Alison, and the CVF team

11/11/2024

ANNOUNCING the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝙎𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙁𝙖𝙧𝙢 𝘿𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 (number 13, baby) 🎶✨🥂⁣
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join us to celebrate thirteen whole years of Farm Dinners at Churchview! ⁣
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in this lineup you’ll see some longtime favorites, new concepts, and (we think) something for everyone. ⁣
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𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙞, 𝟭𝟭/𝟭𝟱, @ 𝟵 𝙖𝙢. all the details are on our website: https://churchviewfarmpgh.com/farm-dinner-series-2025
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winter may be on the way, but before you know it we’ll see you on the Farm in the sunshine ☀️⁣

11/08/2024

finding beauty & optimism in who and what surrounds us, and feeling so much gratitude for:⁣
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my farm family⁣
the sweetness and hilarity of animals⁣
beautiful harvests & summer evenings⁣
collaborating and teaching⁣
flowers, flowers, and more flowers⁣
workshare antics (and workshare gifts)⁣
warm sunny mornings⁣
the incredible community we’ve built⁣
found hummingbird nests⁣
fall crops⁣
preserving the harvests ⁣
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all of you 💚

11/05/2024

vote like your lives and rights depend on it, because they absolutely do. let’s make our collective voices heard. loud and clear.⁣
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💚🇺🇸✌️🏳️‍🌈⁣
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𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥

10/28/2024

one of the *many* annual tasks keeping us busy near the close of the growing season is our all-important SOIL TESTING 📓⁣
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CVF is part of a ten-year soil health benchmark study via , so every October our workshares & volunteers gather soil samples from our primary growing fields. ⁣
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starting in the spring we keep meticulous records (though I admit they get somewhat less meticulous as the season progresses 😅) of all crops, amendments, tillage, and anything that impacts the soil structure and heath. in December I send that info along to PASA, and over the winter we receive extensive reports providing clear insight as to the goings-on in our soil. we use these reports to plan and adjust for the coming year, which plays heavily into our off-season planning.⁣
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for those of you with backyard or community gardens - now is the time to test your soil! it’s a big part of what will set you & your garden up for success next season 🌱⁣
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(and thanks to our Soil Test Czar, workshare )

10/10/2024

join us for the last dinner of the season 🍂🍷⁣
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this fall meal, with the team from and sommelier & educator Alyssa McGrath of , centers on food and wines with a focus on sustainable, regenerative, and biodynamic practices.⁣
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swipe for menu and pairings (subject to change, vegetarian options avail). all the details and tickets are available on our website: https://churchviewfarmpgh.com/2024-monthly-dinner-series
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hope to see you for our last pairing meal of 2024 ✨

10/01/2024

𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰! 𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙖𝙡𝙚 𝙒𝙚𝙙𝙨 𝟭𝟬/𝟮 @ 𝟵 𝙖𝙢⁣
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we’re wrapping up the event season at Churchview with two very different, delicious, fall-festive (or Halloween spooky) experiences.⁣
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𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝟭𝟬/𝟭𝟱 we’ll be joined by the chef/owner team from with sommelier Alyssa McGrath for a dining experience centered around local meats, cheeses and other products, expertly paired with biodynamic and organic wines 🍷⁣
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𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝟭𝟬/𝟮𝟰 we end the season on a spooky note with a 𝘡𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 party, featuring the undead from & . there will be Halloween-y tunes courtesy of DJ Mary Mack and plenty of zombies roaming the property, looking to snack on the living (𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟸 𝘻𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦) 🧟‍♀️⁣
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visit our website for details: https://churchviewfarmpgh.com/2024-monthly-dinner-series
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join us as we wrap up an incredible season of events on the Farm 🥂🥰✨

09/28/2024

the last month has been a whirlwind at the Farm 😅💚🍅 what with growing, harvesting, feeding, and snapping pics of pretty flowers & our adorable animal (and human) friends.⁣
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between those in our our weekly educational programming keeping up with harvests (and new rescue chickens), hosting dinners with chef friends from to .pgh to a pepper celebration with , working with incredible somms like , meeting new members of workshare families, preserving projects with friends in the outdoor kitchen, refusing to accept that tomato season will EVER end, and preparing for fall crops … it’s busy days.⁣
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but soon things will slow down. and before you know it, Alison and I will be preparing for the 2025 Sunday Farm Dinner series launch in November (!!!), and workshares & volunteers will be taking home Thanksgiving treats. ⁣
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in the blink of an eye, the season will be over. appreciate the fresh food & flowers while you can 🌸⁣
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09/23/2024

𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙀𝙉𝘿 (𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯) 𝙄𝙎 𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙄𝙉𝙂 🧟🧟‍♀️ 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗲.⁣
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October event announcements are coming soon, but we need to give fair warning about an impending zombie invasion at Churchview. ⁣
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longtime CVF guests may remember our 2012 zombie dinner, and we’re leaning in again to fall-festive spooky-farm vibes to celebrate the end of 2024 events with a late October 𝙕𝙤𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙚 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 - including delicious food and drinks, of course. ⁣
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our friends from and have also been bitten, but they’re clawing their way out of the grave to bring us pizzas from the mobile oven along with some salads, sides, and treats - plus the beverages we’ll all likely need to give us courage to brave the undead lurking around the farm.⁣
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one of our previous invaders, Zombie Jen, is pictured here… unfortunately she’s escaped her chains and is returning 🧟‍♀️ with some of her undead friends.⁣
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𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙙. dates and details coming soon 🎃

09/18/2024

my pre-Churchview/pre-farmer life involved a thirteen year career within public libraries, as some of our followers are aware. ⁣
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while I stepped away from that path when I fell in love (hard) with farming and educating, my passion for public libraries and all that they provide to our communities never went away. ⁣
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so I was thrilled to join the board of the Baldwin Public Library early this year, and to support them however I’m able. ⁣
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September is 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙇𝙞𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮 month, and I’m personally grateful for the generous donations in support of provided by many of the people & entities who also support us at CVF in a wide variety of ways:⁣
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𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙊𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖⁣
𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖⁣
𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙍𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙆𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙣⁣
𝙀𝙔𝙑 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙩⁣
𝙇𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙝⁣
𝘿𝙞𝘼𝙣𝙤𝙞𝙖’𝙨 𝙀𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙮⁣
𝙐𝙣𝙖 𝘽𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙨⁣
𝙈𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙚’𝙨 𝙄𝙘𝙚 𝘾𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢⁣
𝘿𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙬𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙊𝙫𝙚𝙣⁣
𝙂𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙣 𝘼𝙜𝙚 𝘽𝙚𝙚𝙧⁣
𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙝 𝙃𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙔𝙤𝙜𝙖⁣
𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨⁣
𝙀𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙫𝙚 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙮 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚⁣
𝘽𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙁𝙤𝙤𝙙 & 𝘿𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙠⁣
𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙠𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙀𝙜𝙜⁣
𝘼𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙪𝙨⁣
𝘾𝙖𝙛𝙚 𝘿𝙪 𝙅𝙤𝙪𝙧⁣
𝘽𝙖𝙡𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖 ⁣
𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙫𝙚 & 𝘽𝙚𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙖𝙛𝙚⁣
𝙃𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙝𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙧 𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜 ⁣
𝙋𝙖𝙞𝙜𝙚’𝙨 𝘿𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙮⁣
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they have donated restaurant and brewery gift cards, tasting menu experiences, beauty & wellness packages, so many ice cream & sweet treats, and yoga classes - all in support of our local library here in Baldwin. ⁣
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stay tuned for how you can enter to win some of these items and experiences. ⁣
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a final reminder to eat local, buy local, support local. our community is everything 📚👩🏻‍🌾💚⁣
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xo, farmer tara

09/13/2024

it’s the last eight-course Japanese tasting menu of the season with our friends from .s.sando_co, and one of our last (available) events of 2024 🍂⁣
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join us Weds 9/25 @ 6 pm (BYOB!) just six tix remain… visit our website for tickets and info:

https://churchviewfarmpgh.com/2024-monthly-dinner-series

09/05/2024

summer isn’t over until the figs stop. ⁣
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we’re packing up chef orders for two (very exciting, very different) upcoming dinners at Churchview and they both have something in common - tons of our fresh figs 💫⁣
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menus for both the .pgh sushi & sake tasting and the farm dinner highlight CVF products, and our event chefs have been particularly excited about these babies.⁣
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the 2024 growing season may have been a bit of a beast, what with the screaming heat and lack of rain, but dang has it been good for fruit production 🌞⁣ I’ll take it.

08/21/2024

updating designs, touring kitchens, picking out equipment … an exciting (and 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 in the planning) project at Churchview is finally getting underway this fall 🔨🚜⁣
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thanks to our good friend Chef Doug G., food and beverage director for CMP art & natural history museums, and the other chef/owner friends who are helping & advising as we embark upon phase one of this incredibly cool project 🧑🏻‍🍳👩🏼‍🍳⁣
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a team of consultants, advisors, lawyers, engineers, and architects/designers continue to generously dedicate their time and talents to help us bring this to fruition, and take the existing educational and dining experiences at CVF to the next level. ⁣
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to say we’re excited is an understatement. stay tuned… 🚧

08/20/2024

hi friends, Fran here 🐾 many of you have been inquiring as to why I haven’t been performing my usual event duties lately, greeting guests with my waggy-tail at the top of our driveway and mingling during dinner 🐶⁣
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while I am still happily living at Churchview, hanging out during workshare education days, and certainly not slacking on my farm duties (warning Tara and the chickens about random birds, playing with Dylan, pawing at Alison’s legs, keeping my sister Lucy in check, etc) lately I get a little anxious during events and those days can be a bit much for me 🫣⁣
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so occasionally I prefer to hang next door in the quiet of my grandparents house during our dinners - but just until my mom and our vet figure out some adjustments to my meds (and perhaps I need a therapist? who can say) 👩🏼‍⚕️⁣
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but I’m otherwise as healthy as can be, especially for an 11 yr old gal, and I’ll see you soon! in the meantime don’t let my greedy horse of a sister, Lucy, graze on your apps during cocktail hour 🥂 ⁣
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ps - we still have some September event tix available, so maybe I’ll see you at one of those tasty dins!⁣
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xo,⁣
Fran

08/12/2024

September events & classes! 🍅☀️🍅 ⁣
𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙖𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬, 𝙏𝙪𝙚𝙨 𝟴/𝟭𝟯, 𝙖𝙩 𝟵 𝙖𝙢 ⏰ 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘴 & 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘸.⁣
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don’t miss out on all the beautiful late summer produce, flowers, and sunshine at CVF 🌸⁣
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all the details can be found on our website:

https://churchviewfarmpgh.com/2024-monthly-dinner-series
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https://churchviewfarmpgh.com/workshops

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see you soon! 🌞🍂