2024 The Farmer & The Chef Auction
Second Harvest Food Bank would like to send a special thanks to our friend Mike Bauguess for serving as the auctioneer this year.
Item 1
Gourmet Dinner and Spirits Package
Enjoy a delicious dinner provided by Gourmet & Company and stock your wine cooler with a case of wine!
- 11 house reds and whites and one hidden gem
- Dinner for 2 at Gourmet & Company
- Value- $500.00
Item 2
Grill and Chill
Grill some great dinners courtesy of Holston Beef Company and Blue Ridge Package Store.
- Box of Holston Beef Company’s top selling cuts of meat:
- 2 pork tomahawks
- 2 T-bone steaks
- 2 ribeye steaks
- 2 packs of bison burgers
- 2 filet steaks
- 2 packs of ground round
- 2 rolls of mild sausage
- Bottle of Weller Bourbon
- Case of wine including eleven house red and wine wines and one hidden gem
- Value- $505.00
Item 3
Hooray! Enjoy a bit of B-G-K!
This Bristol, Gray, and Kingsport area package includes gift cards for various restaurants around the area:
- $30.00 gift cards for Results Salon
- $50.00 gift card for Evergreen Nursery of Kingsport
- Dinner for 2 ($150.00 value ) and Brunch for 4 ($120.00 value) to J. Franks
- $25.00 gift card for The Chop House
- $50.00 gift card for Yong Asian House
- $40.00 gift certificate for Raffaele’s
- Value- $465.00
Item 4
Spa-tacular!
Ladies, this one is for you! Are you ready to shop and enjoy various spa treatments?
- 12 months of Boutique Perks at Monkees of Johnson City
- (2) $100.00 Soleus Massage gift cards
- Anti-Aging Facial at Cosmetic Laser Skin Care
- $200.00 gift certificate to Real Hot Yoga.
- Value- $1010.00
Item 5
After Hours Party for 25
Does your party need something? We have the perfect party package!
- After-Hours appetizer spread for 25 created by Graze Tri-Cities
- Case of 11 house red and white wines and one hidden gem
- Value- $482.00
Item 6
Home Improvement
One of the most popular auction items from the past two years has returned! Select from three styles of hardwood flooring and receive 500 square feet of your selection courtesy of Mullican Flooring. The flooring styles range in value between $3,100 to $4,500.
- Value- Average $3,800.00
Item 7
Its Tiki Bar Time!
Bid on your very own handcrafted tiki bar, built by Second Harvest friend – Howard Darnell.
- Tiki Bar
- $100.00 Holston Beef Gift Card
- Eagle Rare Bourbon
- Value- $1,180.00
Item 8
Enhance the Romance
The Carnegie Hotel invites you to be their guest for an overnight stay!
- Overnight stay at The Carnegie Hotel
- 60-minute couple’s massage
- $100.00 gift card to Wellington’s
- Floral Bouquet once a month for 6 months & a Jar of Honey once a month for 4 Months courtesy of Honey Blossoms Farm
- Value- $730.00
Item 9
Enhancing Beauty
Includes 3 Sessions of a Fotona 4D Facelift at RNA in Johnson City
- Value- $2,240.00
Item 10
Around the Town
Enjoy a catered dinner for Eight donated by ETSU Sodexo, curated and prepared by their own Chef Beau Girarde. This package also offers gift cards to restaurants in Johnson City, Jonesborough & Elizabethton.
- Catered dinner for 8 by ETSU Sodexo
- $100.00 gift card from Timber
- $50.00 gift cards from Sahib Indian Restaurant
- $50.00 gift card from Bayou Boys Seafood
- Meal for 2 at Barberitos
- 2 $50.00 gift cards for Simms Pizzeria
- $50.00 gift card from Grace Meadows
- $25.00 The Coffee Company and Dino’s
- Value- $914.00
Item 11
Quail Hunt and Dinner
Enjoy the thrill of the hunt for four at R & D Farms, then enjoy a delicious quail dinner prepared by Blackthorn’s own Chef James Allen. This package includes a Bottle of E. H. Taylor Bourbon courtesy of Blue Ridge Package and a case of wine.
- Quail hunt at R&D Farms, hosted by Dale & Rebecca Myers
- Dinner for 6-8 prepared in your home by Blackthorn’s own, Chef James Allen
- Bottle of E.H. Taylor Bourbon
- Case of assorted red and white house wine, including one hidden gem
- Value- $1,450.00
Mission Moments
Second Harvest Mobile Food Pantry
The Mobile Food Pantry is a vital food distribution program that Second Harvest provides throughout its eight-county region. We have all probably seen one of the food bank’s trucks which carries nutritious food to our region’s most remote areas where there is little to no access to traditional food pantries. With over 70 distribution sites, these food distributions help individuals, families, veterans and seniors experiencing hunger around our region. Help us keep these trucks on the road with your financial support.
Second Harvest’s Children’s Programs
Children who miss meals are more likely to have problems concentrating and learning in school. They will also have trouble socializing and functioning in other situations. Lack of nutrition NOW affects their PRESENT and their FUTURE. Second Harvest’s Children Programs make a difference for these kids. 1 in 5 children in Northeast Tennessee are experiencing hunger and food insecurity.
- The Food for Kids Backpack Program provides take-home bags of easily prepared meals and healthy snacks twice a month during the school year as well as healthy food boxes for their entire family before holidays and school breaks.
- The Summer Food Service Program takes over at the end of each school year by providing nutritious weekday meals at sites where children can gather during the long summer break.
Senior Grocery Home Delivery
There are more than 11,000 senior citizens in Northeast Tennessee who are food insecure. Many of them struggle to access food because of transportation or mobility issues as well as housing and medical costs. These seniors too often have to choose between putting food on the table or purchasing much needed medicine or paying a utility bill. Second Harvest distributes food to Senior Centers across our service area but we also make deliveries to home-bound seniors who are in rural and isolated areas. The Senior Grocery Home Delivery Program provides food door-to-door for about 200 senior homes