Richard Branson drove a tractor as part of the opening ceremony for ‘The Culinary Center at Natirar’ which is due to open in September at the 90-acre Virgin Spa Resort in Somerset County, New Jersey. The carriage house will be remodeled for the center and was part of the estate previously owned by the King of Morocco.
Sustainable agriculture for the field-to-fork restaurant will include a working farm and expertise from Sterling College.
Natirar was built by Kate Macy and Walter Graham Ladd in the 1990s. The restaurant will be open to the public.
The cooking school includes a working farm complete with livestock and gardens and is currently run by two Sterling College graduates. Students at Sterling College currently produce about twenty-five percent of the food that is eaten on campus, so it is a natural fit for their graduates to then become involved in a Farm to Fork program. For the opening ceremony event, Sir Richard Branson was on hand to kick-off the event. Besides riding tractors, Branson is the recent owner of the property...
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