Wicomico River Heritage Tasting - Extended Weekend
Contact us directly if you have a group to schedule, as the season sells out quickly: (410) 443-0025
3 days/ 2 nights all inclusive: Mushroom famers, Oyster farmers/Watermen, and Vintners join us at the table with their stories and crop! Lodging, meals, tastings, hands-on demos, hikes and talks, shucking knives, picnics, fishing rods, bikes, ferry ride and parking included. Contact us directly with questions, or if you have a group to schedule, as the season sells out quickly: (410) 443-0025
Unplug. Escape. Taste a place where we’ve been cooking for three hundred years with nature’s bounty. Step into our disappearing environment where wind, tides and weather rule. If you love exploring places that are rough around the edges and a lifestyle that is unapologetically unique - well, then jump right in with us - for a once in a lifetime heritage foodway tasting tour!
Authentic tide to table shared with the farmers, waterman and vintners - no pretense, no nonsense, just real people from the original source of Maryland’s beloved seafood and farming legacy. Eating & drinking everything local: Learn various ways to shuck oysters from generational waterman, taste various locally grown mushrooms with a mycologist, sample two of Maryland’s world-class, award-winning wines, learn the basics of shoreline fishing & test your skills on the Wicomico. We’ll hike and picnic within an 18th century plantation and nibble another day at a near-by winery after exiting one of the last small ferry-services in Maryland.
Your journey begins at a historic dock on the Eastern Shore of Maryland as you exit a historic ferry ride into another world. We’ll settle along the Wicomico River off the Chesapeake Bay into our vanishing small town atmosphere. You’ll be enveloped within the environment of explorers, trappers, revolutionaries, farmers and waterman. We’re a community in which water continually seizes and releases our livelihoods; A fluid, flexible, tenacious and generous people with a unique lifestyle and language.
These are small batch 4 - 8 people experiences that provide more personal interactions that cater towards solo travelers. Created for mature adults (over 25) and require curiosity, kindness and flexibility as we are dancing with nature on each adventure. Contact us directly with questions, or to book with your friends: (410) 443-0025
Dinners, hands on demos and talks with local multi-generational farmers, vintners and waterman. We’re officially recognized and certified as one of only forty “Chesapeake Bay Storytellers” through the National Park Service and The Maryland Office of Tourism.
Day 1 - Ferry over/Dinner: Pop across the Wicomico River on a ferry route thats been in use since 1687. Arrive, unplug and relax with a slice of native smith island made cake and award-wining wine with local vintners. Check out your new waterfront enclave before we learn and play with our local mycologist and mushroom farmer. We’ll share the dining table with our vintners and farmers savoring their delicious bounty. Ending your evening on the porch, or dock, with a glass of wine, or a cup of relaxing tea, from a neighbors herb farm.
Day 2 - The Wicomico: Fresh seasonally inspired breakfast; & then journey across the Wicomico towards our vineyard destination for an afternoon of tasting, relaxing and picnicking on the grounds. Lunchtime picnic highlights our local history of foods packed for daily working sojourns. Heading back towards lodging decide if you’d like to learn to fish, filet and fry a pre-dinner snack. Hang out and fish a while, or return to relax on the dock. Dinner begins with oyster shucking lessons with local shucking champion and watermen. Enjoy your oyster and fish based dinner with a local, multi-generational waterman family who harvested the nights bounty. Share stories and local desserts while experiencing another unplugged sunset.
Day 3 - Breakfast/Ferry away: Awake refreshed as you enjoy a local cup of freshly brewed coffee on the dock before you walk back to enjoy your seasonally inspired breakfast with neighboring herb farmers - as we discuss and sample their locally grown tisanes. End our adventure together with a hike and picnic around a 260 acre 18th century plantation.