Join pastry chef Emily Spurlin and photographer Laura Scherb for a restorative and inspiring weekend at Red Clover Ranch. Sunbaked is a collaborative retreat focused on storytelling through food and photos. Every summer, Nature offers her bounty to us, and as creatives, we felt called to create a space to respond to that in the form of art, both the edible and the visual. We know you will be just as captivated as we are by the breathtaking natural beauty and agricultural abundance of the Driftless region of Wisconsin.

• Cake tutorial

  Instruction for making your own seasonally-inspired, naturally colored layer cake from Emily Spurlin

• Photography tutorial

  Instruction on capturing storytelling in photography—iPhone, DSLR camera, or sketchpad!— from Laura Scherb

• Local grains seminar

  Seminar on heritage grains from Halee of Meadowlark Organics

• Baking supplies

  All baking tools, supplies, and ingredients to make your cake will be provided.

• Field trips

  Excursions to farmers markets, antique stores, and nature walks to forage for flavor components

Like always you will also be lodged in our lovely accomodations, be fed from our farm to table kitchen, and full use to wander our grounds, play a game on our screen porch, take a sauna, or dip your feet in the creek.

Emily Spurlin is a chicago- based award winning pastry chef, florist, and artist. Emily uses pastry as a medium to tell stories and translate inspiration into reality, especially focusing on the natural world as her muse. Laura Scherb is a food photographer, stylist, and writer in Chicago, IL. She works in every capacity of food photography, from commercial work to editorial projects. Her passion is storytelling through light and color, and is particularly interested in shadow work.