Monticello Artisan Trail - Open Trail, Charlottesville

The Monticello Artisan Trail is having a great 10 day special "open trail" for 10 days in June.  From Saturday June 9 to Sunday June 17th artisan studios throughout Albemarle and Nelson Counties will be open for business every day with the artisans available to talk with you.

There are over 40 craft artisans on the Trail for you to visit. And over 25 Agri-Artisan/Farm businesses plus many restaurants.  Foxfield Inn is proud to be a Lodging partner.  If you are staying with us just ask for a map and the "inside" scoop on the type of artisan you wish to visit during your stay.

Dan and Kathryn Bundy, your innkeepers at Foxfield Inn

Monticello Wine Festival, Charlottesville

Looking for a great evening out at Monticello?  On Saturday, May 12th, Monticello is having it's annual Wine Festival.  This year Thomas Jefferson (portrayed by Bill Barker) will be there to talk with the festival goers.  He will talk about the grape varietals and the history of wine during the start of America.  Gabriele Rausse, Monticello's assistant director of gardens and grounds will be with Jefferson to discuss wines.  Rausse is a well-known wine-maker in the area.

If you are staying with us at our Charlottesville bed and breakfast let us make the arrangements for your attendance at the festival for you.

While you are there you can stroll the restored vineyards, tour the wine cellar, enjoy live music and taste the fruits of the earth from more than a dozen wineries of the Monticello Wine Trail.  Wineries participating this year are:

• Barboursville Vineyards
• Cardinal Point Vineyard and Winery
• First Colony Winery
• Flying Fox Vineyards
• Gabriele Rausse Winery
• King Family Vineyards
• Mountfair Vineyards
• Pippin Hill Farm and Vineyards
• Pollak Vineyards
• Stinson Vineyards
• Sugarleaf Vineyards
• Trump Winery
• Veritas Vineyard and Winery
• White Hall Vineyards

The festival takes place on the West Lawn of Monticello from 6:00-9:00pm.  You can pre-order a picnic box to enjoy while there.

Enjoy the festival!
Dan and Kathryn Bundy, your innkeepers at Foxfield Inn

Historic Garden Week, Charlottesville

Mark you calendars starting Saturday April 21 through Tuesday April 24 to view the participating gardens in Albemarle County as part of Historic Garden Week.  Use our Charlottesville VA bed and breakfast as your starting point.  On Saturday head over to Morven Farm to view the wonderful work being done on their gardens.  Then stop by Monticello for a garden tour and see what is being done by the gardener's there.  They arranged special tours and lectures just for the event.


Sunday is the big tour in the Keswick area.  Seven properties are featured this year -

• Chopping Bottom Farm, Keswick
• East Belmont Farm, Keswick
• Round Hill Farm, Keswick
• Keswick Hall, Keswick
• Keswick Hunt Club, Keswick
• Grace Episcopal Church, Keswick
• Oak Hill Farm, Keswick

 On Tuesday it is off to see the gardens on UVA's grounds.  There will be tours of Carr's Hill, the Edgar Allen Poe room, Morea and the Gardens of the Pavillions in the Academical Village.


If you are staying with us at Foxfield Inn and need to take off early for one of the tours or events just let us know.  We will arrange a special time for you for breakfast.  When you return in the afternoon there will be a glass of wine and some hors d'ouerves waiting for you.


Looking forward to seeing you for Historic Garden Week!


Dan and Kathryn Bundy, your innkeepers at our bed and breakfast in Charlottesville


 

Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello, Charlottesville

One of the premier festivals in the area is the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello.  This is a fabulous festival that cherishes the harvest and celebrates the revolutionary gardener Thomas Jefferson.  The festival is Friday and Saturday, September 14 & 15, 2012.   We know this may sound premature but you need to book your tickets for the festival now instead of in August.  That's why we wanted to give you early notice of this festival.   We already have one couple who have booked their room here at Foxfield Inn so that they will not miss out.

The festival is not until September but BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW!  They do sell out and you won't want to be left out if you are at all interested in attending.

We've had guests stay here at Foxfield Inn and go to the festival for several years now.  We cannot believe how much they it.  This year I am going to try to make a couple of the workshops.  We accommodate those who have an 9:00am workshop to attend with an early breakfast so that you can make it time for your sessions.  The workshops are fantastic - everything from heirloom garlic & onions (one I'm interested in) to Jefferson's role as a revolutionary gardener to solar drying vegetables.  There are 31 workshops to select from on Friday and another 31 on Saturday.   There will also be chef demonstrations that are yet to be announced.

Joel Salatin, founder of Polyface Farm and the model for sustainable agriculture, will be the speaker at the Grand Dinner & Evening on Friday night.  This should be a great evening out.  The farmer (Zach Miller, Timbercreek Organics) we purchase our eggs and pork spent time with Joel learning how run and manage a sustainable farm.  We hope you can attend.



See you soon!
Dan and Kathryn Bundy, your innkeepers at Foxfield Inn

Monticello Wine Trail Festival, Charlottesville VA

Looking for a great wine tasting event?  The Monticello Wine Trail Festival will be the place to be in downtown Charlottesville on Saturday April 21st.   It's an easy drive from our Charlottesville VA bed and breakfast to the nTelos Pavillion where the even will be held.

All of the great wineries from the Monticello Wine Trail will be in one place.  No need to drive from winery to winery to sample some of the best wines Virginia has to offer.  There will be over 20 wineries present at this event.  You will be able to meet with the vintners and discuss their wines.

•  Afton Mountain Vineyards
• Blenheim Vineyards
• Cardinal Point Vineyard & Winery
• DelFosse Vineyards & Winery
• First Colony Winery
• Flying Fox Vineyard
• Gabriele Rausse
• Glass House Winery
• Horton Vineyards
• Jefferson Vineyards
• Keswick Vineyards
• Kilaurwen Winery
• King Family Vineyards
• Lovingston Winery
• Mountfair Vineyards
• Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards
• Prince Michel Vineyards & Winery
• Stinson Vineyards
• Sugarleaf Vineyards
• Trump Winery
• Veritas Vineyard & Winery
• White Hall Vineyards
• Virginia WIneworks/Michael Shaps Wine

After you have sampled all the wines you might want to have dinner downtown before heading back to Foxfield Inn for you night's stay.  Then wake to a delicious breakfast the next morning before out for the day.

See you soon!
Dan and Kathryn Bundy, your innkeepers at Foxfield Inn

Nanci Griffith to Perform in Charlottesville, VA

Nanci Griffith is coming to the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville VA on Tuesday April 17th.  She is a Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter and an Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award winner.  She will be performing songs from her new album Intersection.  Twenty albums now, and none before like this.

“It's emotional for me, and it's personal, and it makes my heart pound, thinking I'm going to be totally exposed here,” says Nanci Griffith.  Intersection sounds like a exciting piece of work because it is not an album of resolution or closure; it's an album about difficulties, about anger, about things that slip away and things that explode.  It exams a time of difficulty for Griffith - personal break-ups, family difficulties, and breaking bad habits.

“I've had a hard life, and I write it down,” Griffith sings on the title track, and that line serves as a statement of fact and purpose, and as a gentler way to explain her near-shouted musical exclamation, “Hell no, I'm not alright.”  “At some point, you have to get it out,” she says. “I couldn't walk around with the anger. I didn't write these songs to punish anybody. I thought I wrote them to get these things off my chest. But now I've taken them on the road, and every night when I sing, 'Hell no, I'm not alright,' and I see my audience come to their feet, I understand exactly why I wrote this.”

If you are coming to her concert why not spend the evening and stay with us at our Charlottesville bed and breakfast?  Treat yourself to some luxury after hearing her beautiful and thoughtful music.

Dan and Kathryn Bundy, your innkeepers at Foxfield Inn

An Evening with Tom Colicchio, Charlottesville, VA

Stay with us at our Charlottesville bed and breakfast on Sunday March 18th before you head off to see Tom Colicchio at the Paramount Theater.  More recently known for his head judge role on Bravo's Emmy award winning Top Chef he is known in the culinary world for his restaurants.  He is the chef/owner of Craft restaurants - Colicchio & Sons, Craftbar, Craftsteak, Riverpark, & ‘Wichcraft .  His most recent restaurant was opened in October of 2012 - Riverpark.

While being the Top Chef head judge he also spends time mentoring the up-and-coming chefs on the show.  To Chef is in it's ninth season.  Watch him here on Charlie Rose.

Tom Colicchio spent his childhood immersed in food, cooking with his mother and grandmother.  It was his father, however, who suggested that he make a career of it. Tom taught himself to cook with the help of Jacques Pépin’s legendary illustrated manuals on French cooking, La Technique and La Méthode.  Throughout his career Chef Colicchio has earned awards for his cooking - including the James Beard Foundation's Best Chef-New York.

He has three cookbooks to date - Think Like a Chef (2000), Craft of Cooking (2003) and 'wichcraft inspired sandwich cookbook (2009).

If you are lucky enough to be in Charlottesville for Chef Colicchio's appearance at the Paramount Theater and at the Commonwealth Restaurant & Skybar after party you should make a night of it and stay with us at Foxfield Inn.  At breakfast the morning we can talk about the performance and meeting him in person.

Dan and Kathryn Bundy, your innkeepers at Foxfield Inn