Thursday evenings are pizza nights at Juniper Hill Farm & Table. Guests enjoy a happy hour beverage from 5 to 6 p.m. and a tasty appetizer while enjoying the peaceful countryside on this working farm. Of course, the wood-fired pizzas are the night’s star attraction, with the topping selections changing to fit the seasons.
The idea for Pizza Night came in the early days of the COVID pandemic. Nancy Thellman found herself at a crossroads, having just lost a close primary election to retain her county commission seat. Her worried daughter Katy sent her an article from the New York Times featuring vegetable farms hosting pizza nights. Nancy saw the benefit of allowing people to enjoy the countryside while utilizing her son, Scott’s, crops to make the pizzas.
“More than that, it’s a beautiful way to get more folks to fall in love with the farm and see the value of it,” says Thellman. “Small family farms need to have the larger community love them and want them to stay around.”
After more than a year of hard physical work, Juniper Hill opened for Thursday pizza nights last fall. All of this deliciousness is just a 10-minute drive from downtown. The nights are often a sell-out, so make your reservations online at juniperhillfarmtable.com/pizza-nights.