Summer Grill Nights
Highlighting our farm grown and crafted elderberry products
Summer is bringing a new experience to The Elderberry Café.
Join us for Summer Grill Nights - an opportunity to enjoy local meats and veggies marinated with our vinegars, grilled, and dressed up with our condiments.
These will be accompanied by fresh salad and handmade focaccia, baked in the wood fired oven while you watch.
Fourth Thursdays, May - Aug. Serving 5 -7:30 pm. Open til 8.
May 28
June 25
July 23
Aug 27
Reservations required. Call, text, or email to let us know date, time and number of guests.
Address: 1259 Rohret Rd SW Oxford, IA 52322
Why highlight elderberries?
Elderberries have become part of the landscape here, ever since the first cuttings were planted into a bean field in 2022. This was the first step in transitioning some of our farm into agroforestry (farming with perennial trees and shrubs). There are now about 3,000 elderberry plants in the field, at varying levels of maturity!
In 2024, the field offered up its first flowers and berries and, in the absence of a solid wholesale market, we developed and tested a new line of products on the farm. Two vinegars, a shrub, an oxymel and a fire cider, as well as two condiments.
It’s been fun to introduce them to guests on the farm this past year and they have been well received.
Now, The Elderberry Café (winter 2025-26) & Summer Grill Nights have emerged to highlight this wonderfully nutritious and somewhat unfamiliar fruit. We hope you love meeting this berry at the table!