The run of show:

10am: Pick up outside of Five Leaves

12:30pm - Farm Arrival

1-4pm - Foraging, Mozzarella Streching and Farm Tour

4:30pm - Dinner With Lucky Dinner Club

7pm - Head home

The Chef: Gabrielle Macafee

Gabrielle Macafee is the chef and host of Lucky Dinner Club. With an emphasis on the joy of building community through food, Lucky Dinner Club is the perfect place to meet friends, collaborators, and maybe even find a special someone or two. Regardless of what you're looking for, everyone is bound to have a fortunate experience at Lucky Dinner Club.

Location: Cherry Grove Farm

Cherry Grove Farm is a celebrated, family-owned sustainable dairy farm and creamery set on roughly 480 acres of organic pasture, woodland, and wetland in Central New Jersey visitnjfarms.orgEat Well Guide. Grounded in over a century of Hamill family ownership, the farm was revitalized in 2002 with a focus on responsible food production and regenerative agriculture Cherry Grove Farminnatglencairn.com.

The farm operates entirely on-site—raising and milking their own cows, then crafting and aging artisanal cheeses in small batches using the farmstead model. Their cows graze rotationally across verdant pastures, allowing Cherry Grove to maintain humanely treated herds and produce cheese that’s both flavorful and aligned with land stewardship values Cherry Grove Farm+1visitnjfarms.org.

Over the years, Cherry Grove has cemented its reputation as one of New Jersey’s premier cheesemakers, earning national accolades for varieties like Buttercup Brie, Trilby (a whiskey-washed rind cheese), Rarebird, Havilah, and Abruzze Jaw

The Workshop

First, you’ll experience the fun of making your own fresh mozzarella as you are guided through the steps to stretch curds into tender, sweet mozzarella. Learn the tips and tricks to avoiding tough cheese. Then we’ll add a twist by learning how to make a rich, creamy burrata from the curd. We’ll complete the class with a cheese tasting, comparing these fresh cheeses to our cave-aged Cherry Grove Farm cheeses. You will leave with fresh cheeses and our signature class folder full of cheesemaking information and recipes to use at home.

The food: 

Snacks and treats during the day and then a 4 course dinner with Lucky Dinner Club.

The drinks: 

Wine pairings and N/A bevys