The one-year Tower Bridge Dinner is the gilded finale for Sacramento , California ’s annual Farm - to - Fork Celebration . This year the event contract on a flowered direction with the addition of an American Grown Flowers tablescape created by Debi Lilly .
Debi Lilly served as this class ’s Floral Chef for the Farm to Fork Dinner upshot on the bridgework in Sacramento .
Lilly , an event planner , floral intriguer and two - metre American Grown Field to Vase Dinner Tour architect , served as the “ floral chef ” for the pop event where 800 diners pucker for a multi - course meal at table that covers the duration of the Tower Bridge .
Debi Lilly with Crystal Hedgpeth , Floral Manager for NorCal Safeway .
She used hundreds of bloom of plants from James Leonard Farmer throughout California to create a multi - level tablescape that emanated fall sunlight and happiness . Think 440 vases of sunflower . 440 vase of genus Gerbera . 990 feet of bay leaf chaplet . 440 laborer ‘ o short pumpkins , 440 loose sunflower flush , 440 succulent .
American Grown Flowers took shopping mall tabular array during this class ’s Farm to Fork event in Sacramento .
And in a nod to a popular feature article at all American Grown Field to Vase Dinners , the consequence also include two boutonniere bars where guest craft bout and posy nosegay using California Grown Flowers .
“ Everyone love it and the bar was a dozen masses deep the entire cocktail hr , ” Lilly shared .
Throughout the Farm - to - Fork weekend , Lilly also host demonstrations on efflorescence design trends and design two trend tables that were amply dressed with linen , crystal , dishes , dozens of vase of American Grown Flowers and , of course , the certify American Grown Debi Lilly bouquet .
She also recognize the farm that had contributed blossom to the event , cave in a cry out to the flower granger in attending and discussed the importance of line of descent when it come in to selecting sweet blooms .
“ Where flowers fall from is as important as where food for thought comes from . The inception of our food has been a focusing for years , and now it ’s the large story for florals , too . A lot of consumer are n’t aware that many blooms are grown thousands of sea mile away in other countries , so helping share the American Grown Flower movement and the stories of the farm kinsfolk is an incredible chance , ” Lilly explains .
“ For the last four year , we ’ve been taking our American Grown Field to Vase Dinner Tour around the country to foreground that the homegrown movement is n’t just about food for thought , ” divvy up Kasey Cronquist , CEO and ambassador for Certified American Grown . It ’s also about the bloom at the center of the table being as authoritative as the food on your photographic plate when it comes to sustainability , freshness and beauty . It was wonderful to see Safeway and Debi Lilly take that important floral message to this iconic solid food event in Sacrament , the nation ’s Farm to Fork Capital . ”
For more information : California Cut Flower CommissionPO Box 90225 , Santa Barbara , CA93190-0225www.ccfc.org
