Discover Our Edible Landscape

Welcome To The Farm Walking Tour

COMPLIMENTARY | 1 HOUR

Short walk around the heart of our property, Lake Mishkin. Experience the lay of the land and amazing sights that highlight all Southall has to offer. Get a brief introduction to our Apiaries, the Orchard, and Farm Fields just to name a few. This is your beginning to discover, absorb, and connect with the land and culture.

Field Tour + Tasting

$125 PER PERSON | 1 HOUR

Stroll through the rows of our production fields or the kitchen gardens with members of our farm and culinary team and taste what’s in season during this engaging walking tour.

Everything Starts with a Seed Tour

$50/PERSON | 1 HOUR

Gather at the Processing Barn to learn about our seed starting experience. Then, enjoy a tour of Southall’s Propagation and Orangerie Greenhouses.

Planting Party

$50 PER PERSON | 1 HOUR

Take this opportunity to get your hands in the dirt alongside the farmers of Southall. You will get to plant a spring crop with the farmers that will eventually make its way onto your plate! While planting, you will have every opportunity to ask all of your gardening and farming questions to the experienced team of growers here at Southall.

Ready, Set, Grow!

$50 PER PERSON | 1.5 HOURS

Join an experienced Southall farmer for that gardening class you’ve been looking for! We will offer seasonal classes throughout the year—for spring, we will cover topics such as bed preparations, what to plant during this season, how to manage weeds, generalized gardening tips, and soil health. Every class ends with a gardening Q&A.

Orchard Tour

$50 PER PERSON | 1 HOUR

A brief but thorough introduction to the workings of our orchard. Including type of orchard, varieties, unique qualities, and many uses of our apples.

Ask a Beekeeper

COMPLIMENTARY  | 1 HOUR

Ask one of our beekeepers all of your burning questions. Find out how Southall manages the 4 million bees, carries out sustainable best practices, or maybe how to start your own hive.

Lessons from the Hive Hike

$75 PER PERSON | 1.5 HOURS

Our bees teach us something new every day we work with them. Join our beekeeper on a moderate hike through the hillsides while you learn how our pollinators can make us better leaders, followers, innovators, and communicators.

Bee Cruise

$75 PER PERSON | 1 HOUR

Buzz around the farm with a beekeeper learning about our unique pollination program and the essential role all pollinators play in agriculture and on our working farm. Taste award-winning honey and learn new and interesting ways to save our bees.

Beekeeping 101

$75 PER PERSON | 1 HOUR

Participants will be introduced to the wild world of beekeeping at Southall.  We will discuss how honeybees operate, why they are in trouble, and what you can do to help.  We will also cover what Southall is doing to protect our pollinators and how they are pivotal to our success. We will have a demonstration hive and sample our award-winning honey!

Installing a Beehive

$150 PER PERSON | 1 HOUR

Have you ever wanted to learn how to start a beehive? Join our beekeeper as we install a 3-pound package of honeybees into a brand-new hive! Participants will suit up and assist with installing the bees, checking on the queen (you’ll even get the opportunity to name her), and providing their first meal of sugar water. This opportunity comes around only once a season!

Native Bee Experience

$75 PER PERSON | 1 HOUR

Learn about the world of native bees as we discuss what they are, how they impact life on the farm, and how you can help! Each person will leave the discussion with a better understanding of how to create a native bee habitat in their own backyard. Seasonally, we will examine live native bees and their cocoons as a group.

Guided Apiary Tour

$150 PER PERSON | 2 HOURS

Go behind the scenes with our beekeeper on a private guided tour of Southall’s apiaries! Don your very own beekeeping suit, take a selfie, and get ready to fire up the smoker. Guests will get the chance to open up a live beehive, experience what it’s like to be a beekeeper, and taste our award-winning honey right out of the hive.

Plein Air Painting

$100 PER PERSON | 2-3 HOURS

Artist Anne Goetze resides on a small farm in the countryside outside of Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee. Her cherished subject matter features the rural life and landscape of middle Tennessee. She will be walking all attendees, whether they be beginner, intermediate, or expert artist, through the painting style of Plein Air. Attendees will have a painting easel and materials set up at the property’s creek near the covered bridge as they take in their glorious surroundings and express their view through a painting to take with them as a memento of their time at Southall.

Plein Air painting literally means “painting in the open air.” It is an expression of one’s surroundings, and Anne will guide participants step by step on how to express their own interpretations.