Swank Farm kicks off brunch series

The local brunch bustle will get a new, rural dimension Sunday when Swank Farm hosts the first in a series of farm brunches.

And like some of the more popular brunches, it will be a casual, a la carte affair. In this one, however, you purchase a ticket for the dish of your choice.

“You can have one item or you can have five items,” says farm co-owner Jodi Swank.

Food and drink prices range from $6 to $15 per item. There will be brunch cocktails, local beer and music, plus a farm mini-market offering locally grown and crafted goods.

During harvest season, when she and farmer husband Darrin Swank are not running the Loxahatchee Groves boutique produce farm, they are hosting rural-chic “Swank Table” farm dinners and other events in their barn. Now, they’ll host the farm market brunch on those Sundays when there’s

no Swank Table feast.

Jodi Swank expects between 10 and 15 vendors will sell their goods at the market. Cooking at the farm will be chefs from the Wellington Hospitality Group, a special events company. They will be creating dishes with some of the ingredients grown on the farm and offered at Sunday’s minimarket. On the menu: hearty breakfast platters and sandwiches, burritos, Belgium waffles, a NY Strip steak sandwich, and a special, loaded farm salad. Reservations are not needed for this free family-friendly event, which runs 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

“You can bring the kids,” says Jodi Swank. “You can have brunch, or you can skip it and just shop the market. It’s a nice morning on the farm.”