A Shaker Feast - With Celtic group Toss the Feathers

Date
August 16, 2025

Retreat Highlights

  • Join us for a special evening as we host a Shaker feast, followed by Celtic group, Toss The Feathers! It's going to be an incredibly fun evening!
  • This will be a sit down dinner, with an organic curated menu by our chef Amber Miasano, who works closely with the Abode Farm to bring in ingredients that are harvested 100 yards from where we eat. Dinner will start at 5:30PM in our dinning hall, as we feast in Shaker style! A small talk with Dr. Rev. Mellen Kennedy will happen before dinner, talking on the Shaker's past on Mount Lebanon, and how their legacy still lives on.
  • Our Organic Menu: Heirloom Tomato Soup - Creamy Mashed Parsnips - Pasture Raised Beef Herbed Meatloaf - Raised Bicuits - Cucumber Salad - Raspberry Panna Cotta - Chilled Rhubarb Tea - (There will be vegetarian and vegan alternatives for those that request!)
  • Music will start at 7:30PM, in our performance hall, with Celtic group Toss the Feathers, who we're so excited to have! If you like Celtic music, the fun pace, the instruments, and old songs, you must check this out!
  • Amber Maisano has been dedicated to the healing culinary arts since 2004, specializing in holistic health with a strong emphasis on macrobiotic cooking. She sources local and organic ingredients for the kitchen, emphasizing on the importance of fresh nutrients. Her journey began as a personal transformation; overcoming chronic fatigue syndrome through macrobiotic
  • practices, she turned her passion into a profession. Amber has extensive training and experience, notably as a head chef, kitchen manager, and teaching faculty at the renowned Kushi Institute in Becket, MA.

About this Retreat

Details of this retreat

Join us for a special evening as we host a Shaker feast, followed by Celtic group, Toss The Feathers! It's going to be an incredibly fun evening!

🥗 This will be a sit down dinner, with an organic curated menu by our chef Amber Miasano, who works closely with the Abode Farm to bring in ingredients that are harvested 100 yards from where we eat. Dinner will start at 5:30PM in our dinning hall, as we feast in Shaker style! A small talk with Dr. Rev. Mellen Kennedy will happen before dinner, talking on the Shaker's past on Mount Lebanon, and how their legacy still lives on.

🍽 Our Organic Menu: Heirloom Tomato Soup - Creamy Mashed Parsnips - Pasture Raised Beef Herbed Meatloaf - Raised Bicuits - Cucumber Salad - Raspberry Panna Cotta - Chilled Rhubarb Tea - (There will be vegetarian and vegan alternatives for those that request!)

🎻 Music will start at 7:30PM, in our performance hall, with Celtic group Toss the Feathers, who we're so excited to have! If you like Celtic music, the fun pace, the instruments, and old songs, you must check this out!
🥦 Amber Maisano has been dedicated to the healing culinary arts since 2004, specializing in holistic health with a strong emphasis on macrobiotic cooking. She sources local and organic ingredients for the kitchen, emphasizing on the importance of fresh nutrients. Her journey began as a personal transformation; overcoming chronic fatigue syndrome through macrobiotic
practices, she turned her passion into a profession. Amber has extensive training and experience, notably as a head chef, kitchen manager, and teaching faculty at the renowned Kushi Institute in Becket, MA.
 

Schedule

Spend time at the Abode, hiking our vast network of forest and mountain heights. Walk through our herbal gardens. Visit the organic farm. Spend time in the courtyard, meeting new folks, and listening to the birds. Or walk down country roads in solitude. We are a few minutes away from New Lebanon, NY, where you can find an organic grocery store, restaurants and stores.
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change

Getting Here

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Directions

5 Abode Road, New Lebanon, NY, 12125

Accommodation

Rooms building to building. From private Shaker styled rooms, to economy smaller rooms, to full homes, to shared dorms.

Shaker Feast with musical guest Toss the Feathers
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Toss the Feathers concert only

Venue & Amenities

Venue & Amenities
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Located on the site of one of the first shaker settlements, The Abode maintains and operates in beautiful Shaker infrastructure, settled on over 300 acres, of woods, gardens and farms.

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