When throwing a small dinner party this winter, the best advice Goshen Green Farms founder Ana Hito could give is to leverage whatever the season offers—from the tablescape to the menu. The balaboosta herself abides by the same rule of thumb when preparing for her monthly farm-to-table dinners—the last of which happens to be tonight.

After fulfilling big goals in Los Angeles food media, Alexis Deboschnek moved back home to her family’s hundred-acre farmhouse in the western Catskills. There, among her mother’s gardens and her childhood kitchen, is where things really started to click.