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Friends of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt announces Friends & Fashion 2020

Former patients of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt will walk the runway alongside professional models at the annual Friends & Fashion event at Music City Center on Monday, April 6th. The event coordinated by Friends of Children’s Hospital will feature clothing from Dillard’s and The Friends Shop, located inside Children’s Hospital, with a promotional sponsorship from The Mall at Green Hills.

The real stars of the show are the resilient, inspiring young patients who model alongside the professionals. This year’s child models have had experiences with diabetes, open heart surgery, HIV and more.

This year also marks Friends & Fashion’s thirty-year anniversary and will include a look back at fashion throughout the previous decades as well as raise more funds for Children’s Hospital. The event’s fundraising efforts throughout the years have impacted various hospital departments ranging from pediatric cancer to complex care to the hospital’s expansion. This year the event will be supporting a research grant for diabetes along with the palliative care program.

Friends & Fashion is also adding a new addition to the fundraising efforts this year. Fashion Gives Back will occur on April 30 th and will include various retailers around the area hosting give back days and special events to support Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

Tickets to Friends & Fashion and a list of Fashion Gives Back retailers are available online at ChildrensHospital.Vanderbilt.org/ friendsandfashion. This year’s event is co-chaired by Sandy Cornelius, Pepper Brown Magaree and Memree Roberts.

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A Vintage Affair Celebrates 20 Years!

This year will mark A Vintage Affair's twentieth year of supporting Williamson County organizations that dedicate their time and hearts to helping women and children in need.

Ralph Drury, A Vintage Affair founder, has a passion for helping those in need… And for wine. So, creating events that collaborated both was the perfect inception and has continued to raise funds for twenty years. Carrie Drury, Ralph’s daughter, who serves as the Executive Director for A Vintage Affair now, is continuing the legacy of the nonprofit and its mission.

Over the years, A Vintage Affair events have benefited libraries, medical centers, services focused on preventing domestic abuse, scholarships for higher education and more. The beneficiaries for the 2020 events are Williamson Medical Center, Bridges Domestic Violence Center, Davis House Child Advocacy Center, My Friend’s House Family and Children’s Services, Williamson County Foster and Adoption Care Association, Mercy Community Healthcare and High Hopes Development Center. RALPH DRURY

"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!" F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

A Vintage Affair is celebrating this year’s anniversary milestone in true twenties fashion. Dust off your dancing shoes, pinstripes and pearls, and join them as they toast to this momentous occasion on Friday, April 17th in Liberty Hall at the Factory at Franklin. Come early and experience the Speakeasy VIP Pre-Party at The Blockhouse, from 5:30pm to 7pm, where guests will enjoy champagne, select wines, signature cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, fine cigars and early access to the premier silent auction.

The party will continue at the Main Event with doors opening for general admission at 7pm through 11pm. Guests will enjoy stilt walkers, vintage cars, food from local vendors, a variety of wine and bourbon tastings, exquisite desserts, champagne and so much more. The night will feature silent and live auctions, wine auctions and The Top Tier Band will keep you on the dance floor until the evening ends. This is sure to be a night full of bee's knees entertainment that would impress Jay Gatsby himself!

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This is a 21 & up event. Gatsby/Roaring Twenties style attire is encouraged, but not required.

The Speakeasy VIP Pre-Party Tickets (includes The Main Event), are $150, and just the Main Event Tickets are $100. Get your tickets now for this festive occasion at avintageaffair.org.

named a winner in the tenth annual good food awards Southall Farm’s Wildflower Honey

Southall, one of Tennessee’s most innovative and sustainable farms, will unveil its extensive grounds along with a luxury inn, spa and cottages in 2021, but its apiary and its 2.5 million bees are already being recognized as a key player in the larger agricultural and native biome. The Good Food Foundation, known for its dedication to the elevation and continued reform of American food culture, has named Southall Farm’s Wildflower Honey a winner of the 2020 Good Food Awards in the honey category. Dedicated to the ethical production of clean, healthy food, the Good Food Awards showcase honeys most distinctive in clarity and depth of flavor, produced by beekeepers practicing good animal husbandry and social responsibility.

Head beekeeper Jay Williams manages the millions of bees that populate the apiary at Southall, utilizing the property’s native flora to produce the highest quality honey. Williams not only leads the apiary program, but also educates and inspires anyone who is open to listening about the power and importance of bees through his company Williams Honey Farm. Williams attributes the success of Southall’s Wildflower Honey to the diversity of native plantings featured throughout the 325 acres of flourishing land and the team’s dedication to cultivation and innovation. The greenhouses at Southall use native leafcutter bees to pollinate 365 days a year and Williams is pioneering Bluetooth technology to monitor hive health on the property. Below the apiary, nearly 2,000 apple trees live on a terraced hillside. Crop and fruit yields on the farm should increase exponentially each year as a result of the pollinators. Williams is currently in the process of implementing a comprehensive pollination plan on the property that will ultimately include approximately 4.5 million bees, including native species.

“We’re a little different in that we don’t harvest until July, so we capture the flavor profiles of a full season’s worth of nectars. Our great spring weather last year delivered an incredible bloom – the black locust, tulip poplar and basswood all just exploded,” said Williams. “The team at Southall has planted hundreds of native trees and shrubs, while maintaining plenty of wildflowers for the bees. It’s just a perfect scenario for making amazing honey.”

Southall’s award-winning Wildflower Honey offers a mild sweetness, followed by a fruity middle and a sweet finish, complements of the late basswood nectar. Williams notes that he could harvest every couple of weeks – each of the colonies makes thirty to sixty pounds of honey per season – to capture a well-defined single bloom’s flavor, but due to risks from storms and other factors that could potentially leave the bees starving for honey to feed on, a July harvest allows for them to wind down while building plenty of stock to survive the winter. Williams’ strategic harvesting of the honey and careful attention to the wellbeing of his bees is what makes him such a spectacular beekeeper and the personification of the Good Food Foundation’s ethos.

The Good Food Foundation is committed to fostering land stewardship and cultivating social good. From a blind tasting of 2,035 entries, 324 outstanding food and drink crafters rose to the top, after evaluation to confirm they meet Good Food Awards standards regarding supply chain transparency and environmentally sound agricultural practices. Of the sixteen finalists in the honey category from states ranging from Hawaii to Massachusetts, Southall’s wildflower honey was the only finalist and winner from Tennessee. The highest scoring entries underwent a rigorous vetting process to verify they were not only exceptionally tasty but met the sustainability and social responsibility criteria required to become a Good Food Award winner.

Southall’s award-winning honey is available seasonally for purchase at The Farm Stand, a specially curated retail space located on-property at Southall in Franklin. Visionary chef and farmer Tyler Brown oversees a culinary and agricultural team dedicated to his lifelong dream of marrying agriculture, hospitality and cuisine into a unique and memorable experience at Southall. For more information and to stay connected to the property’s development, visit southalltn.com and follow Southall on social media via Instagram and Facebook.

Located in historic Franklin, Southall encompasses over 325 acres, set across rolling Tennessee hills, and includes a working farm featuring orchards; crops; gardens; an apiary; chicken coop; rotational grazing for livestock; innovative greenhouses; active aquaculture and seed saving programs and a recreational lake. Set to open in 2021, a luxury inn, spa and signature restaurant will offer an escape where guests will enjoy an array of experiences based on the property’s core principles of exploration, discovery and connection.

For more information and to stay connected to the property’s development, visit southalltn.com and follow Southall on social media via Instagram and Facebook.