On a very frigid Tuesday night, over a hundred farmers, ranchers, educators, artisans, and local food advocates gathered in the Grand Ballroom to catch up, share a meal, and listen to a presentation from Howard Garrett, the Dirt Doctor.

We loved celebrating and supporting donation farm McKinney Roots with our 2021 Suppers with a Cause, but it was time to give another local nonprofit the spotlight. Our Winter Supper with a Cause on February 17th benefited the McKinney nonprofit preschool Holy Family School.

It’s hard to believe it had been two whole years since our last farm tour, and it felt soooo good to get back on the bus! We loaded up 50 eager folks bright and early and headed out to the country for the day.

We held our second ever Gala in the Garden on October 16th. The day was just beautiful, low 70s and sunny! The garden at Water Boy Farm has never looked better, thanks to Farm Director Jennifer Spring’s careful planning and months of work.

After rescheduling several times over the last eighteen months, we finally welcomed farmer and author Ben Hartman to McKinney!

The Summer Supper with a Cause was a sold-out event and all of the proceeds went to buying McKinney Roots a new lawnmower!

Harvest Seasonal Kitchen hosted another pair of sold-out Suppers with a Cause in support of McKinney Roots! The seasonal spring menu was curated by Chef Andrea with the best offerings from our local farms, paired with wines and seasonal cocktails to make for a perfect evening.

Our last Supper with a Cause was almost exactly a year ago. That night, we packed fifty guests into the Great Room and Cellar at Harvest Seasonal Kitchen in celebration of Empty Bowls McKinney.

It was not the year any of us expected, to say the least. Our hearts go out to everyone who has lost loved ones and livelihoods to this terrible virus. Somehow, despite the unimaginable hardships and losses we have suffered, there have been bright spots of goodness through it all.

For the second year in a row, Harvest Seasonal Kitchen has been honored with a place on Texan by Nature‘s TxN20 list! Texan by Nature (TxN), a Texas-led conservation non-profit founded by former First Lady Laura Bush, has just announced their second annual official ranking of companies with Texas operations that have made a demonstrative commitment to conservation.

McKinney Roots occupies five acres in west McKinney. Over the last few years, they have grown and donated thousands of pounds of organic produce and eggs to organizations serving the food-insecure in Collin County.

When COVID-19 became a global health crisis in March of 2020, the needs of the McKinney community changed overnight. Mayor of McKinney, George Fuller, City Manager, Paul Grimes and restaurateur, Rick Wells brought together a group of people from the public and private sectors to gain an understanding of the impact of the virus and maintain a pulse on the constant changes taking place.

Out of an abundance of caution and to help flatten the curve of Covid-19, we are cancelling all of our upcoming events through May. We are incredibly disappointed, but public safety and suppression of this virus is critical.

Going west on 380 you are sure to pass a number of towns each with the same small-town essentials, from the local gas stations, to the town halls and the two or three churches that dot the landscape, it almost all seems the same. But tucked a few miles north of 380 is the small town of Krugerville, Texas that is home to a special community of passionate and caring individuals.

Our first Symposium of the year affirmed that the local food movement is gaining steam and stronger than ever! Local farmers, ranchers, artisans, county extensions agents, and advocates packed the Grand Ballroom to network, make new friends, and catch up with old ones.

Our first Supper with a Cause of the year is a wrap, and we have truly started the year off with a bang! After selling out in record time, fifty-three guests joined us at Harvest to celebrate Empty Bowls McKinney.

Hello, it is Lily McCutcheon and I am back again with another garden visit. This time I had the opportunity to visit the 40+ acres right on the edge of Mckinney and Fairview that make up Cornerstone Ranch.

After reviewing applications from several North Texas nonprofits that share our mission of creating a more sustainable future, we have selected six grant award winners from our application process for 2020!

For years the Seed Project Foundation has given out grants to farmers in the North Texas area to help grow and support local farmers, but the stories of the impact of these grants onto its recipients has never been told.

The holiday season is upon us, and we’ve decided to make it even more fun. At Harvest, every purchase of a seed paper star ornament for $25 is one chance to win a $500 gift card to Rick’s Chophouse and Harvest! All proceeds from the sales are donated to the Seed Project Foundation, which we’ll put to good work funding more local sustainable causes in 2020.