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Updated: October 15, 2008 All photographs & materials on the site copyrighted 2004-2008 by Sylvie Rowand or Laughing Duck Gardens (unless indicated otherwise). Web site designed by Sylvie Rowand |
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Fresh from the Garden, the Fields, the Orchards & the Woods |
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Laughing DUCK GARDENS & Cookery |
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Welcome! |
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Rappahannock County, Virginia, at the foothill of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is blessed with beautiful natural and agricultural landscapes. Farms, pastures, woods and orchards provide an abundance of varied food grounded in the soils that nourish them. Laughing Duck Gardens & Cookery helps you appreciate the beauty around us; enjoy the fruit, produce and meat from our soil; and shows you how to grow productive, healthy and beautiful kitchen gardens. Our focus is on fresh, seasonal food: cooking it, teaching how to cook, growing it, teaching how to grow it. Special Occasion & Catering Cookery services: We provide cookery services for special occasions and small private dinner parties (up to 24 people). Our Refined Country Cookery emphasizes freshness, seasonality and flavor, using quality ingredients prepared carefully. Check out our sample menus for your next party. Contact us and let us know what you need: we can create a menu to perfectly fit your occasion. Our cookery services are often referred to as “personal chef services”. The typical personal chef service lets you select from a set of existing menus, for which the chef then shops, and comes to your house to prepare, cook and package an agreed upon number of entrees for a set fee. We do that - and more. See our Everyday Cookery Page for all the services we offer. Our cooking emphasize seasonal ingredients and fresh herbs, and draws from several cooking traditions to ensure flavors and variety. We can accommodate many dietary requirements. If you want to enjoy your week-end in the country - while eating good food prepared with many local ingredients - without having to think about it, shop for it, and let alone cook it, we have a solution for you. Gardening & Cookery Workshops: Our gardening workshops are rooted in personal experience and on a life-long passion. The Duck has been gardening seriously for 20 years from a tiny balcony garden to a small city garden to its present large country garden and cooking since 9 years old. Many classes focus on kitchen gardening and techniques to help you grow beautiful, healthy and productive edibles, but some workshops cover “ornamental gardening”. Cookery workshops demystify cooking and show how to cook using fresh ingredients and a little flair. Check out our current offering and calendar. Kitchen Garden Design/Consultation: We also offer private consultations for those who want more targeted and personalized advice on how to start, install or maintain a kitchen garden. Contact us or learn a little more here first. Note Cards, Greeting Cards & Photography with Nature, Landscape and Botanical themes: Fresh from the garden, the woods or the fields, Laughing Duck Gardens note cards and greeting cards make wonderful gifts for gardeners, nature lovers, Mother’s Day, Christmas, hostess gift and for anybody who wants to send unique notes. |
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