Outstanding in the Field at Front Porch Farm

A farm dinner built around Front Porch Farm

Outstanding in the Field’s June 7, 2026 Front Porch Farm event is an outdoor multi-course farm dinner in Healdsburg. The program begins with a cocktail reception around the porch, continues with a farm tour, and moves to a long-table family-style meal on the forested banks of the Russian River.

Buckley produce meets Troubadour and Quail and Condor

Host farmers Mimi and Peter Buckley are named for Front Porch Farm, which they founded in 2010. The farm is described through regenerative agriculture and a range that includes heirloom flint corn, sun-ripened fruit, and blooms; that farm bounty is the basis for the multi-course meal prepared by guest chefs Melissa Yanc and Sean McGaughey of Troubadour and Quail and Condor.

The named chefs and winery

Melissa Yanc and Sean McGaughey are listed as the guest chefs for this dinner, representing Troubadour and Quail and Condor. The event description also notes their former roles at SingleThread Farm and their later co-launch of a bakery and restaurant in Healdsburg.

The guest winery is Lyndon Fog Cellars, with Laurel Livingston and Glen Caughell named for the winery.

Meal format and attendance policies

The meal is family-style, and the organizer says it can only guarantee accommodations for vegetarian requests. That information is entered during checkout when it applies to a guest or party.

• If a participant cannot attend, the stated policy says refunds or credits are not given, but tickets can be transferred to someone else with the new guest information provided at least 24 hours before the event, or by having the guests use the original reservation name at arrival.