Wednesday LUNCH connect, February 19th, 2020, Sonoma.

Format: The focus of this 1 ½ hour meeting is to work on, and brainstorm, business aspects/challenges with other members, as well as learning from our speaker. Introductions, including a brief announcement of new products/services events by each member, are also featured. (This is a reduced version of our full 2-hour agenda meeting. If you are new to Polka Dot Powerhouse, we suggest you attend a Thursday evening meeting instead, to get the full experience of what we are all about.)

Cost: Lunch is $25 and the menu will have 5-6 items to choose from. YOU NEED TO BRING CASH OR CHECK (made out to the restaurant)

Cancellation: Members, your attendance is confirmed with the restaurant at noon the day prior to our meeting. Should you need to cancel after this hour, you will be charged the $25.

We provide a roster of attendees, which is printed Tuesday afternoon prior to the meeting. For your name to be included, your attendance needs to be confirmed by noon on the said Tuesday.

If there's a particular topic you would like brought up at the meeting, be it a business challenge you may be facing, an area of personal growth or skill acquisition, please submit this with your meeting registration (in the notes/comment section).

Our speaker this month is:  Fiorella Butron, Executive Chef at Stone Edge Farm, Sonoma.

Stone Edge Farm comprises the Farm, Silver Cloud Winery and the Edge Restaurant. Waste not, want not is Stone Edge Farm's philosophy. 

Stone Edge Farm produces over a hundred varieties of organic heirloom vegetables, fruit, olives and olive oil, herbs, eggs, and honey, supplying kitchens at the family residence and EDGE. It's officially detached from the electric utility grid and operates as a self-sustained island. The winery is a "model citizen" in air, soil, water and energy conservation. 

Fiorella is a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu in Lima, Peru. She worked at The Four Seasons in Palm Beach and Maui, the Wailea Beach Marriott, and Jay Bistro in Fort Collins, and explored food in Europe, Southeast Asia, and India. She co-authored The Stone Edge Farm Kitchen Larder Cookbook with John McReynolds and Mike Emanuel.

Fiorella's talk will focus on the importance of sustainability and highlight how we as single individuals can aspire to living life in a more sustainable way as well as educate us on all the culinary delights she surrounds herself with daily.

Charlotte Hart

Managing Director, Polka Dot Powerhouse,

Sonoma Chapter.