Date Night: Pizza under the stars at Heritage Prairie Farm
Tara Burghart Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 6:15AM Most Tuesdays, Go West Young Mom brings you details on an “Easy Outing” you can do with your children. But occasionally, we want to bring you some unique ideas for a night out with your hubby or girlfriends – both important aspects of any sane mom’s life! The inaugural installment of this series would be great for either.
Diners enjoy pizzas at Heritage Prairie Farm. Photos by Tara Burghart.Heritage Prairie Farm is located in La Fox on Brundige Road, just off Route 38, about 2 miles west of Randall Road. It’s a really interesting place, now in its third year of what it calls “four-season growing.” The farm uses moveable greenhouses, crop rotation and succession plantings to grow crops almost year-round.
Heritage Prairie has regular farm dinners, sells honeyonline and in its farm store, and is currently selling shares for the 2011 season of its Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.
But I visited the farm to check out the pizzas – artisanal pizzas, cooked on a wood-fired earth oven. They are offered only on Wednesday nights, from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. You can place an order for pick-up, but the real draw would be to enjoy your pie while relaxing with a friend or your husband at a table on the farm’s beautiful grounds. Note that there is no indoor seating.