This month, Once a Month at DCK begins not at the table, but in the dark of the theater. We’re joined by Chef Taylor Montgomery — Executive Chef and Head Farmer of Montgomery Sky Farm and, as of June 2026, the James Beard Award winner for Best Chef: Southeast — for an evening that traces a single thread from soil to plate.

The night opens at 6:00 PM at True West Theater with a screening of The Soil Remembers, Chef Montgomery’s film on regenerative farming and the long memory of the land. From his 100-year-old farm in Leicester, North Carolina, Taylor leads a "Seed to Plate" program that revives heirloom and endangered varieties, restores soil health, and rebuilds local food resilience — work that earned him the City of Asheville’s 2025 Hero of Hospitality Award after he helped provide more than 15,000 farm-sourced meals in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

Dinner follows immediately in the Grange Hall at DCK, where Chef Montgomery cooks side by side with Chef Shane McAnelly — two farmer-chefs translating that same philosophy into a menu rooted in Sonoma County’s growers and Taylor’s own harvest.

Seating is limited to 40 guests.