Venue

Our Annual Fall Fling Fundraiser will take place in the newly appointed Historic District at The Revival on Main in Montgomery, MN. It is located at 213 First Street South, Montgomery, MN 56069. This event is our key fundraising event and donations help maintain our efforts to inspire appreciation and respect for nature.

Ticket Sales

Member Dinner Ticket: $45.00

Non-member Dinner Ticket: $60.00 (Includes a membership)

VIP Table of 8: $600.00

4:00 - 8:00 pm
Benefits per person:

• A membership (if already a member, we will add onto your existing membership)

• A drink ticket

• A Ney buff

Purchase tickets online here: https://ney-nature-center-3.square.site

Tentative Schedule

Social & Appetizers
Cash Bar
Speaker Beth Dooley
Dinner
Ney Nature Center Awards
Dessert
Live and Silent Auction + Door Prizes

Guest Speaker
 
Beth Dooley

Our featured speaker will be Beth Dooley, renowned author, and food journalist. Involved with the local food movement for over 20 years, Beth will speak on regenerative agriculture – foods that are as delicious on the plate as they are good for our planet.

Beth is

• an endowed chair, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Minnesota;

• a food journalist and author of numerous award-winning cookbooks, most recently, The Perennial Kitchen: Simple Recipes for a Healthy Future;

• a collaborator with Sean Sherman on The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen, James Beard Award Best American Cookbook, and with Lucia Watson, James Beard nominee, Savoring the Seasons of the Northern Heartland. Other titles include Sweet Nature: a cook’s guide to using honey and maple syrup, The Birchwood Café Cookbook, Minnesota’s Bounty: The Farmers Market Cookbook, and In Winter’s Kitchen: Growing Roots and Breaking Bread in the Northern Heartland, a collection of stories about our food shed, short listed for the Minnesota Book Award, 2019;

• a columnist for the Star Tribune Taste section, Delta Sky Magazine, Fine Cooking Magazine, the North American Review, and a regular contributor to local TV and radio, including Minnesota Public Radio’s Appetites and Kare 11 TV, where her travels and food writing has been a regular feature; and

• helps people connect more deeply with food through Bare Bones Cooking with her middle son Kip.

For more information about Beth and her recipes, visit: http://www.bethdooleyskitchen.com/