Memorial Day Weekend Collaboration

A weekend with Guest Winemaker, Elizabeth Higley and Utopian Seed Project’s Chef Terri Terrell featuring fresh focaccia sandwiches, wine spritzes, live music, and community-rooted work supporting women in wine education and resilient regional foodways.

May 22-24 from 2-6pm

Gathering Around Good Work

Join us May 22–24 for a collaborative weekend with winemaker Elizabeth Higley of Demarcation Wine Co. and Utopian Seed Project’s Culinary Director + Chef, Terri Terrell. Throughout the weekend, they’ll be sharing fresh focaccia sandwiches, seasonal sides, and wine spritzes made with Elizabeth’s small-batch vermouth, alongside live music each afternoon.

The weekend highlights two causes close to their work: women in wine education scholarships and Utopian Seed Project’s mission advancing resilient regional foodways.

At Addison Farms, these connections matter deeply to us. Over the years, we’ve had the privilege of working alongside passionate and talented women in wine, including Griffin Abee, Shruthi Dhoopati, and our current head winemaker, Taylor Greene, along with the incredible women who help shape the experience of our tasting room each weekend.

Set against the backdrop of our working vineyard (just outside Asheville), this long weekend gathering is an invitation to slow down, share a glass, and spend time with good people doing meaningful work.

Food Offerings are available throughout the weekend by suggested donation.

No reservations needed.

Come as you are and stay awhile.

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THE DETAILS

Friday-Sunday, May 22, 23, 24

Food Offerings Available from 2-6pm
Live Music from 2-5pm
Tasting Room open til 7pm

Open-air and Covered Outdoor Seating Available.

Food and Music is set up in our Event Barn under the covered patio.

There is additional seating on our back porch, and in the Lounge space in our Tasting Room. The bar inside our Tasting Room is our HQ for purchasing glasses, bottles and guided tastings.

LIVE MUSIC

Friday May 22

Two people playing guitars outdoors in a green wooded area, smiling and enjoying music.

Marley’s Chain

Acoustic Rockabilly and Vintage Country Rock Musical Duo

Saturday May 23

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Kessler Watson

Appalachian Strings and Vocals, affectionately known as "The Ginseng Picker"

Sunday May 24

A man with a shaved head and beard playing an acoustic guitar, sitting indoors near a window with sunlight.

Rick Yates

Guitar and Vocals Covering an eclectic mix from the 60's to today

Meet the Makers

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  • A pioneer in Asheville’s farm-to-table movement, Chef Terri has spent the past 17+ years helping shape what local, sustainable dining looks like in the mountains of Western North Carolina. As the Culinary Director for The Utopian Seed Project, she continues to use food as a tool for equity, storytelling, and community building. Her critically acclaimed pop-ups, The Clarksdale and Ladies Who Brunch, showcase not only her creativity but her drive to uplift others through food with purpose.

    Proceeds from your food donations will go toward Utopian Seed Project.

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  • Elizabeth is currently one of the Head Winemakers at Windsor Run Cellars in Hamptonville, North Carolina.

    In 2025, she was named one of the ‘Imbibe 75: Inspiring people and places that will shape the way we drink in 2025 and beyond’ by Imbibe Magazine.

    She has also launched her own wine label, Demarcation Wine Co. under the umbrella of Windsor Run Cellars, to produce innovative, small-batch wines with a community driven focus. Proceeds from bottle sales go to support the Women in Wine Education Scholarship she founded for Surry Community College’s Viticulture and Enology program.

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Four bottles of wine on a table, with blurred background. Two bottles contain a dark red wine, labeled 'Demarcation Wine Co. Vermouth'. Two smaller bottles contain golden-colored liquids, also labeled.
Four bottles of wine on a table, with blurred background. Two bottles contain a dark red wine, labeled 'Demarcation Wine Co. Vermouth'. Two smaller bottles contain golden-colored liquids, also labeled.