Join pastry chef Emily Spurlin and photographer Laura Scherb for a restorative and inspiring weekend at Red Clover Ranch. Sunbaked is a collaborative retreat focused on storytelling through food and photos. Every summer, Nature offers her bounty to us, and as creatives, we felt called to create a space to respond to that in the form of art, both the edible and the visual. We know you will be just as captivated as we are by the breathtaking natural beauty and agricultural abundance of the Driftless region of Wisconsin.

We will arrive at Red Clover starting at 3pm on Thursday.  Join us for late afternoon swimming, followed by a stop at a local antique shop. We will all gather for dinner and a bonfire to talk about our weekend ahead.

Sleep in or enjoy a morning nature walk to take photos and gather inspiration for your cake and photoshoot. We will then reconvene to learn about making jam to preserve the height of the season, followed by lunch. Halee from Meadowlark Organics will join us to talk about the beautiful grains they grown in the region, which we will then use to bake our cakes. After gathering for dinner, we have free time to go on a nature walk or enjoy the sauna.

After breakfast, we will make a field trip to the Viroqua farmer's market to gather ingredients, props, and inspiration for our baking and photoshoots. We will send the rest of the morning discussing color in regards to photography and also using natural ingredients as food coloring. 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!