Osprey Wilds

Dinner at the Lake with Laurie Allmann
2025-02-22 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Osprey Wilds, 54165 Audubon Dr, Sandstone, MN, 55072, United States
Dinner at the Lake

Saturday, February 22nd

5 pm - 8 pm

$40

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Telling Wild Tales

Join us for a magical evening on the lake! Enjoy delicious food and hear from keynote speaker Laurie Allmann, environmental essayist and poet.

Laurie Allmann is an award-winning environmental writer, essayist and poet (Far from Tame, University of MN Press and An Hour Now, Nodin Press). Her writings explore everything from the behavior of birds to the flights of butterflies, from astronomical events to the movements of salamanders. Join her for an engaging evening of readings and stories. Allmann is currently serving a year-long term as Artist in Residence for the nonprofit North Woods and Waters of the St. Croix Heritage Area. Her artist residency is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the East Central Regional Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Tickets are $40 per person and include: – Beer & wine selections- -3-course dinner- -Admission to the keynote presentation- -Connection & community on beautiful Grindstone Lake!- All reservations must be paid in full prior to the day of the event.

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DINNER MENUBeer & Wine AppetizerKale Ceaser Salad Main Course Corn Beef and Kraut Tempeh and Kraut Roasted Carrots Roasted Red Potatoes Dinner Roll with Butter DessertChocolate Mousse Pie

Hannah grew up on a corn and soybean farm in Southern Minnesota and graduated from Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts in 2004. She worked in politics and government in St. Paul and Washington, DC, grew her first vegetables on rooftops in Brooklyn, and fell in love with grass-based livestock farming as an intern at Kinderhook Farm in the Hudson Valley of Upstate New York. She returned home to Minnesota and began her pastured pig operation, Belly Rub Bacon, in 2015 at beautiful Dancing Winds Farms outside of Kenyon, MN, formerly a popular goat dairy run by Mairi Doerr. In the spring of 2016, Hannah and her partner bought 160 acres of beautiful rolling hay fields and wildlife-filled wetlands outside Finlayson, MN, and Medicine Creek Farm was born.
