Smolak Farms Whim Dinner – Featuring NECI’s Chef Tom

New England Culinary Institute’s Executive Chef Tom Bivins will be in the Boston metro area bringing NECI’s unique fare to Smolak Farms in North Andover, Massachusetts on Wednesday, August 10 at 7:30 p.m. The event will raise money for the NECI Scholarship Fund and is part of their weekly Whim Dinner Series featuring a new chef every week throughout the summer. Attending is a great way for alumni to support NECI or for prospective students to get a taste of what we teach – and the setting is stunning! Tickets are $60 pp and are available on the Gilt City website.

According to their website:
Smolak Farms of North Andover, Massachusetts combines agriculture, education, and entertainment. The land was carved by glaciers, settled by prehistoric Indian tribes, colonized by English settlers and now farmed by the product of the wave of European Immigrants. Parts of the historic homestead are about 300 years old. Today the descendants of Martin and Magdalenna Smolak and their son and daughter-in-law, Henry and Helen Smolak, continue to farm one of the most progressive and beautiful farms nestled in the hills of northeastern Massachusetts.

In 1982 the Smolak Family preserved 107 of the 160 acres in cooperation with the State of Massachusetts Agricultural Preservation Restriction Program, insuring that this area would forever remain open land, never to be developed.  For the past 35 plus years, H. Michael Smolak, grandson of Martin Smolak, has overseen the development of the farm from a dairy farm to the extraordinary farm that it has now become.