JULY | AUGUST 2019 19Home Place Pastures highlights the best food of the Southeast and Mississippi’s best blues music in the most Mississippi
way—a picnic. Home Place Pastures will host the 5th annual Hill Country Boucherie and Blues Picnic August 16-17 in Como.
This two-day culinary event will feature celebrated chefs and musicians from the Southeast. Friday will showcase a
collection of artists from Oxford’s Muscle Beach Records. Visitors are welcome to camp out at Home Place Pastures and
partake in farm tours, volleyball, swimming, and more. Saturday’s dinner will be unrivaled as 20 chefs representing restau-
rants from the Southeast will compete for the best dish using Home Place Pastures’ meat. Mississippi blues music from R.L.
Boyce, Rev Wilkins, The Comotions, and more will wrap up the event Saturday night. — Emmalyne Kwasny
For more information, visit homeplacepastures.com/events-and-visits/.A BIT MAGNOLIA
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