Day 1: 

3pm: Arrival at Kirn Family Ranch

5pm - Ice breakers and cocktails

6:00pm- Dinner with Abby

9:30pm - Bonfire and stargazing.

Day 2:

8am: Yoga with Holden Bussey

9:00am - Breakfast

11am: Olive Oil workshop 

12:30pm: Lunch - chopped style

3:30pm - Painting with Shogun Shido

6:00pm - Dinner with Abby

10:00 pm - Ghost stories and s'mores 

Day 3:

8:00am - Yoga with Holden Bussey

9:00am - Breakfast

10am: Gold leafing workshop with Taylor Smalls

12:00pm - Everyone goes home

The Chef

Chef, farmer, and olive oil sommelier who found herself in one of the acclaimed best kitchens in the world, The French Laundry, as her first restaurant job and has since been catching up to reality. Kirn stays bi-coastal, running her company, Village, and helping her family run their organic and biodynamic olive ranch. She forages, farms, and finds the most spectacular "wild ingredients” to expand people’s palettes, diversify diets, and lead to a more sustainable food system. Her goal is to create space for people to feel seen and loved through food and hospitality. 

Location

The Kirn Family Ranch

An olive oil ranch in Sonoma County with a tranquil haven of rolling hills, silvery olive groves, and rustic charm. Rows of trees stretch across sunlit valleys, surrounding a stone millhouse where fresh olives are abundant.

The food: 

Continental breakfast on Saturday and Sunday morning 

lunch on Saturday

Friday and Saturday night dinners with Abby

lots of snacks

The drinks: 

Specialty drinks, beers, wine, and of course N/A bevys all weekend long. 

The workshops: 

Olive Oil Education

In the olive oil workshop, guests will taste different olive oils and learn what makes each one unique. We’ll talk about how the olives are grown and pressed, how to tell if an oil is high quality, and how to use it in cooking. It’s a fun, hands-on way to understand more about where your food comes from and why good olive oil matters.

Chopped Style event

A chopped-style workshop, guests break into teams and are each given a basket of surprise ingredients—things like seasonal produce, pantry staples, and maybe one oddball item to keep it interesting. They’re challenged to come up with a dish using what’s in the basket within a set amount of time. It’s fast-paced, collaborative, and a little chaotic in the best way. After cooking, everyone shares what they made, eats together, and gets a chance to talk about the process. It’s a hands-on, low-stakes way to get people cooking, thinking on their feet, and having fun.

Painting workshop

Journey To The Absolute” is a meditative painting workshop that invites you to slow down, tune in, and explore the present moment through abstract expression. Guided by the principles of mindfulness and surrendering to the process, this session blends quiet introspection with spontaneous mark-making, encouraging you to let go of outcomes and connect with your inner landscape. No experience necessary—just a willingness to flow, feel, and express. This is not about painting something, but about letting something emerge.

Oakland-based artist Shogun Shido, originally from New Orleans, is a visionary creator whose work explores introspection, emotional intensity, and the boundless possibilities of artistic expression. Rooted in the vibrant culture of his hometown, Shido’s multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpting, digital design, and DJing, blending abstract expressionism with compelling storytelling. A self-taught artist, he views creativity as a spiritual practice and a catalyst for healing, using his work to explore the connections between human design and imagination. Through fearless experimentation, Shido invites viewers to engage with themes of liberation, renewal, and self-discovery, offering an enriched lens for understanding the world and ourselves.

Shido work can be found across the Bay Area existing on murals, various clothing pieces, and public art installations. Notable milestones range from a recent exhibition at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz. To various brand collaborations such as locally with Inside Line Equipment, to Statewide with the Touchstone Climbing Gym, and more Nationwide reach through collaborations with the United Soccer League.

Gold leafing with Taylor Smalls

Taylor Smalls is a contemporary palette knife painter based in Oakland, California, whose work explores the layered, vibrant depth of Black and Brown skin through highly pigmented color. Her paintings celebrate the richness and complexity of melanated womxn.

A signature element of her work is the use of gold leaf, which she uses to embellish and elevate each piece. Gold leaf adds a luminous, reflective quality that catches light and draws the eye, creating contrast, depth, and a sense of transcendence. In contemporary art, especially when applied to marginalized bodies or narratives, it can act as a reclaiming tool—turning overlooked subjects into icons and affirming their beauty, strength, and inherent worth.

Yoga with Holden Bussey

Born and raised in Rhode Island, Holden has been practicing yoga for most of his life, largely under the tutelage of his mother, Anita Bussey. He completed his 200 RYT at Gayatri Yoga School in Tenerife, Spain, focused on Hatha, Vinyasa and Iyengar styles. This experience allowed Holden to better understand himself through breathwork and exploration of the body’s chakras. He brings a constant positive energy to his classes, with the goal of encouraging students to deepen their connection to the self and energy body. Holden invites you to bring a sense of personal curiosity to class as you move and breathe together. 

Amenities on location:

• Flush toilet

• Pool

• Full tent and bed set up

• No transportation