Biltmore Was Local Before Local Was Cool
September 19–28
If you're a fan of farmer's markets, family recipes, and backyard gardens, then our first annual Field to Table Festival is for you. Join us for a celebration of local flavors and fresh cuisine.
We Walk the Walk
Biltmore's Field to Table Program provides estate restaurants with fresh fruits, vegetables, eggs, and meat from our farm. But the program also extends beyond our 8,000 acres. It includes local farmers that supplement our bounty with seasonal produce, homemade cheese, fresh pork, and more. Learn more about this special collaboration with daily programming that includes cooking demonstrations, panel discussions, artisan demonstrations, and guided tours.
From the Field
See where the culinary journey begins at River Bend Farm. Help us gather eggs that eventually end up at The Dining Room at the inn. Meet local farmers and our resident beekeeper, and enjoy demonstrations on cheese making, butter churning, home canning and preserving, sorghum making, and home brewing.
Nurture your green thumb with guided tours of our Kitchen Garden that highlights the crops that we produce for the estate. Then tap into your inner Mountaineer with old-time and bluegrass music, a mini-state fair that honors Biltmore's first agricultural fair, sheep herding, and shearing demonstrations.
To the Table
Listen and join the discussion, as passionate foodies wax poetic about the joys of buttermilk, homemade biscuits, mountain cooking, tailgating, Carolina barbecue, and other regional legacies. Speakers include notables from the Southern Foodways Alliance, Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, and celebrated community figures.