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White silo winery wedding9/25/2023 But the “Raspberry Festival” consisted of a kid at a table in the back selling a few overpriced food items containing raspberries from the While Silo Farm. The rolling hills along the border with New York are always pretty, especially so in the fall. Don’t get me wrong: the farm and the winery itself are absolutely beautiful. Sounds exciting! And a farm museum to boot!Īny excitement was quashed as we entered the tasting room. Live music, free farm museum, winery and field tours throughout the day. Raspberry S’mores, Brie Quesadillas with Jalapeno Rasberry Sauce, Raspberry Sorbet with Raspberry Scones, Grilled Chicken with Raspberries, Mixed Greens Raspberry Salad, and Raspberry Crisp are scheduled. We will be serving 6 small plates of food and desserts prepared with our farm grown raspberries. Our family visit would be during their “Raspberry Festival” which, again for inexplicable reasons, got us way more excited than it should have. Sure, I have an affinity of our lesser-known towns like Sherman, but that’s about it. I don’t know why, but I had built this place up in my head as being a special place over the years. I can’t tell you how many times I semi-planned to make it out here over the years… suffice it to say that number is pretty high. So let me start over… I threw the whole family in the car to head out to the second farthest winery – by one minute – in the state out in Sherman. White Silo clocks in at 69.3 miles away and 1 hour and 19 minutes away. more direct 2-lane roads), from our West Hartford compound, Saltwater Farm in Stonington is 69.5 miles and an hour and 20 minutes away according to Google Maps. Using the most efficient routes to each (that is, highway miles vs. Really and truly list-completion is my drug.Īnd so, with that in mind, I threw the whole family in the car to head out to the farthest away winery in the state – aha! I had always thought this was the case, but the researcher in me just decided to check. I wanted to make the point that writing CTMQ does not feel like a job at all. This site is as far from “corporate” as you can get, really. I can skip out on a place if my son is not cooperating and come back another day. I can wait a month or a year to write about something. One thing I’ve always loved about writing CTMQ is that I’m in complete control. It’s a crime that locally owned farms with operational silos are disappearing, but middle managers complaining about a work group being too “siloed” is epidemic. The title on this page, if you didn’t get it, is an homage of sorts to corporate-speak.
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