A Soggy and Sumptuous Spring Farm Dinner at Little Belly Farm

Mother Nature thought she pulled a fast one on us. Placing the solitary 90% chance of rain smack dab in the middle of a string of sunny glorious days on the Saturday of our farm dinner. But we showed her. We found Lee Sullivan of Nordic Tent Co. who set up his luxury Scandinavian Yurt style tents that were so cozy inside one would have thought we planned the rain. Such was our 2021 Spring Farm dinner at Little Belly Farm in Watertown, TN. The farm is owned by Christopher and Sydney Followill, who raise sheep, chickens and pigs. It’s a beautiful peaceful farm on 27 acres in a hamlet of wooden farm houses, grazing cows, old barns, and rolling hills. The grass was cut, fire pits built, and the wood chopped. The tables were set with flowers and personalized menus by calligrapher Anna Lora Whitley of Silt & Pine. But on a mostly overcast day, the showers set in just as the dinner got off to a start. However, the fantastic guests were undeterred as they waited patiently in line, umbrellas in hand, to check in. They made a beeline for the tent made all the more cozy by the rain outside and the twinkling lights suspended from the cedar beams inside.