Join pastry chef Emily Spurlin and photographer Laura Scherb for a restorative and inspiring retreat at Red Clover Ranch. During our time together, we will focus on infusing our creativity with a sense of time and place. With Emily, you’ll learn about local heirloom grains and how to incorporate them into your baking, a lesson on natural food coloring, and how to translate inspiration into cake decoration. With Laura, you’ll explore photography in the natural world, capturing light, color, and designing a beautiful tablescape to photograph.  There will be plenty of time for rest and recreation, with a trip to the Viroquoa farmers market, Star Valley flower farm, swimming and enjoying the natural beauty of the Driftless region of Wisconsin. Thanks to our butter sponsor, Plugra, for making our delicious bakes possible!

We will arrive at Red Clover starting at 3pm on Thursday.  Join us for late afternoon walk around the Ranch, then a cocktail/mocktail hour. We will all gather for dinner and a bonfire to talk about our weekend ahead.

Sleep in or enjoy a morning walk on your own. Then, take a field trip with us to an organic flower farm. We'll have lunch back at the ranch, then Halee from Meadowlark Organics will join us to talk about the beautiful grains they grown in the region, which we'll sample in shortbread form. We'll spend the rest of the afternoon prepping our cakes for decoration. We'll put together a golden hour living still life, then enjoy a beautiful dinner. After gathering for dinner, enjoy the sauna or a bonfire.

After breakfast, we will make a field trip to the Viroqua farmer's market. After lunch, the focus of the afternoon will be decorating our cakes, and setting up a photoshoot to capture our work.

For our final morning together, we will have breakfast together, pack up our goodies, and part ways - until next time!