New York Times and Forbes.com agree FarmOn! is the “Best Event of the Hudson Valley!” Dinner overlooking the Victory Garden at Empire Farm (opening ceremony with Alice Waters) featuring a delicious meal prepared by a celebrated chef and sourced locally from the farmers sitting at your table for this annual event. 500 guests from New York City, Connecticut, Berkshires, Saratoga Springs, Capital District and the Hudson Valley attend the benefit dinner that changes the way you think and connects you to where your food comes from in an authentic and meaningful way. Come.Join.Celebrate and Shake the hand that feeds you! Kick off at Empire Farm 6-8pm and shop local at the farmer’s market cocktail hour complete with live music, vendors, silent auction and local libations in the student run Victory Garden with tour and tasting in the fields the students grow! Indulge in a Hudson Valley cheese course, oyster boat and save room for an organically grown sustainable farm fresh feast! And 100 of our Farmers will be our Guests and enjoy a family-style dinner prepared by celebrity chef to play with fire in open pit culinary experience eating from within five miles of your plate with food they provide! To cap off the night, guests enjoy live music and dancing under the stars with a barn party to follow dessert.