Sunbaked: A Celebration of Seasonality in the Kitchen and the Studio

Red Clover Ranch Soldiers Grove WI

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Emily Spurlin and Laura Scherb
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Aug 22 - 25, 2024
Group size: 1 - 12
Sunbaked: A Celebration of Seasonality in the Kitchen and the Studio
Red Clover Ranch Soldiers Grove WI

Emily Spurlin and Laura Scherb
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1 review

Aug 22 - 25, 2024
Group size: 1 - 12

About this trip

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.

What’s included

  • Chef-prepared meals
    Red Clover Ranch’s Chef Dani Lind will prepare seasonally-inspired meals, largely sourced from surrounding farms. Meals are included in the retreat cost.
  • Lodging
    All of our guest cabins feature easy access to our bathhouse with high end bathrooms, a screen porch with kitchenette, sauna, and outdoor shower
  • Beverages
    Low-ABV cocktails, beer, and wine available
  • Shared bathhouse + sauna
    Our Japanese- and Scandinavian-inspired bathhouse features two full bathrooms, an outdoor shower, and an electric sauna. It also houses a screened-in porch with a summer kitchen and a lounge area.
  • Cake tutorial
    Instruction for making your own seasonally-inspired, naturally colored layer cake from Emily Spurlin
  • Photography tutorial
    Instruction on capturing storytelling in photography—iPhone, DSLR camera, or sketchpad!— from Laura Scherb
  • Local grains seminar
    Seminar on heritage grains from Halee of Meadowlark Organics
  • Baking supplies
    All baking tools, supplies, and ingredients to make your cake will be provided.
  • Field trips
    Excursions to farmers markets, antique stores, and nature walks to forage for flavor components

What’s not included

  • Transportation
    The nearest airports are Madison and La Crosse, Wisconsin. You can also fly in and drive from Minneapolis-St. Paul or Chicago, both about 3.5 hours away.
  • Camera
    Please bring whatever you'll be using to photograph - film, digital, and phone photography all welcome!

Available Packages

Single Room

This  private single room is in half of a two room cabin. It has a queen bed, private entrance, heat/ac, and beautiful views of a pine forest from bed. One single room inside either the Milkweed, Winterberry and Dogwood.

- Lodging -Private queen room, shared bathroom in bathhouse 

- Daily Sauna time.

- All farm to table meals included.

- Wonderstate coffee and tea bar 

- Use of grounds and buildings.

- Bedding and linens (including towels).

- Ursa Major Body Wash, Shampoo and Conditioner.

- Sales and Occupancy Tax.

$1,300
Deposit:$500
Shared Room

The bunkhouse sleeps 4 in a large bedroom on the 2nd floor that has ac and has a bathroom, small living room and kitchenette on the first floor

- Lodging - Shared Room, shared bathroom on 1st floor.

- Daily Sauna time.

- All meals included.

- Use of grounds and buildings.

- Bedding and linens (including towels).

- Ursa Major Body Wash Shampoo and Conditioner.

- Sales and Occupancy Tax.

(Please let us know if you have someone that you want to room with otherwise we will assign you a roommate)

$950
Deposit:$500

Itinerary

Day 1
Thursday

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.

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Emily Spurlin and Laura Scherb
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Emily is a chicago- based award winning pastry chef, florist, and artist. Emily uses pastry as a medium to tell stories and translate inspiration into reality, especially focusing on the natural world as her muse. Laura Scherb is a food photographer, stylist, and writer in Chicago, IL. She works in every capacity of food photography, from commercial work to editorial projects. Her passion is storytelling through light and color, and is particularly interested in shadow work.

Reviews

I feel very lucky to have stumbled upon the opportunity to join Emily and Laura on this baking and photography retreat. I left with a great sense of peace, a newfound love for baking, and a greater appreciation for lighting.
By Victoria C for Sunbaked: A Celebration of Seasonality in the Kitchen and the Studio on Sep 06, 2024