Parish Patch Farm & Inn

The morning mist hovers in the valley. Huge hay stacks cast long shadows across the quiet meadows. You can almost see the garrison of gray-coated Confederates going in and out of their tents that once stretched along the banks of the Duck River running through the farm.

Standing outside the Inn, filled with a breakfast worthy of a general and a cup of hot coffee, you have a panoramic view of wooded hills splashed with color and myriad shades of green, the silos, the fences, the Beefalo cattle moving from the rustic barn to the quiet fields that surround the Inn--it is a time, a moment you have dreamed about.

Executive Conference Center

From the outside it resembles one of the barns on the farm, but inside is a modern meeting facility equipped with all the equipment and resources you need for a corporate retreat, reunion, or church retreat.

Meeting space for 2 to 64

Comfortable lean-back swivel chairs with flexible room setups

Executive board table for twelve

Meet informally around the Great Room fireplace

AV equipment, flip charts, marker board included

Country Inn

Innkeepers David, Claudia and Whitney Hazelwood invite you to share the peaceful privacy of their country estate. Relax by the Great Room fireplace in the winter. Swim in the pool in summer. Retreat to the Library for a quiet moment alone or with friends.

 21 rooms and suites to sleep 66

Each furnished with antiques, TV, and private baths

Full country breakfasts "made from scratch"

Rates for individual getaways or group retreats

Restaurant

Dine at the historic Cortner Mill located on the farm overlooking the Duck River with tons of water cascading through the Mill.

Elegant country menu

Featuring entrees from the farm and river

Fabulous wines from our cellar selections

One of America's most unique dining rooms

Recreation

Swimming, trout fishing, hiking, canoeing, bicycling, jogging, and birdwatching are all favorite things to see and do without leaving the farm.

Look in on daily chores of a working farm

Tour Jack Daniels and George Dickel Distilleries

Visit a Tennessee Walking Horse farm

Stroll Bugscuffle, Wartrace, Lynchburg, or Bell Buckle

Elegant Country Dining in the Scenic Historic Atmosphere of an 1825 Grist Mill

As early as 1825 grain travelled across the mill stones at Cortner Mill on its way to feed the community. The mill stones are now embedded in the threshold of the front door and the community travels across them on their way to be fed. Corn meal and flour have given way to elegant country dining. Miller's aprons have been traded for chef jackets.

  Food and Wine to Celebrate!
The community comes to Cortner Mill when it wants to celebrate. Couples come to celebrate an anniversary. Families come to celebrate weddings and birthdays. Businesses come to celebrate retirements and the end of another successful year. Friends bring their out of town guests to show off a community treasure.

Elegant Country Menu -
Sorry, no California tofu or South Pacific mahi mahi here. Most of our entrees come from a river or a farm and are prepared with a special touch of the country.

• Cornish Game Hen
• Grilled Rack of Lamb
• Baked Rainbow Trout
• Carolina Country Quail
• Grilled Chicken Breast
• Grilled Duck Breast
• River Bank Frog Legs
• Baby Back Dry Rub Ribs
• Country Ham Steak
• Choice Steaks

New Wine Cellar Selections
One wine expert declared our wine list "fabulous". Select your wine, champagne, or port from a list that takes you from California to France and back through Spain, Portugal, and Australia. Maybe you will start your meal with Brie cheese and fresh fruit along with a glass of our varietal house wines. Make a special occasion more memorable with a champagne toast. Our selections satisfy your range of tastes from fruity zinfandels to a powerful Chateaunef du Pape.

Some of our cellar selections valued highly by our guests include:

• Vueve Clicquot Brut Champagne
• Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon
• Louis Latour Puligny Montrachet
• Stag's Leap Cabernet Sauvignon
• Louis Latour Pouilly Fuisse
• Chateau Beychevelle Burgundy
• Cockburn 20 Year Tawny Port

Holiday and Sunday Buffets
While dinner menu service is offered every day except Sunday and Monday our antique flour sifter becomes a hundred square foot buffet table on Sundays and holidays. We're even open on Christmas Day, but you had better make a reservation early because I promise we'll be too full for even Santa.

• Easter Sunday - Spring Leg of Lamb
• Mother's Day - Baked Sugar Cured Ham
• Father's Day - Steamship Round of Beef
• Thanksgiving - Roasted Tom Turkey
• Christmas - Baked Country Ham
• New Year's Eve - Prime Rib of Beef
• Every Sunday - Champagne Brunch

Specialties of the House
We make it special because we start with fresh fruits and vegetables and everything we serve is made from scratch in our kitchen.

• Flaming Banana's Foster Made Tableside
• Chocolate Desserts with Ghiradelli Chocolate
• Sour Dough Bread Baked Daily
• Homemade Ice Creams

Reservations and Hours
Reservations are required. Cortner Mill is available for private parties, receptions, or weddings. Cortner Mill is a no smoking facility.

• Tuesday - Saturday 5:30 - 9 p.m.
• Sunday Champagne Brunch 11:30 - 1:30 p.m.
• Reservations (931) 857-3018

Away But In Touch - Corporate or Board Retreat, Reunion, Church Retreat

Getting away from the rush and pressures of the daily routine is essential to clear thinking whether you're the CEO needing to solve a problem or the board of directors needing privacy to focus on strategic planning. All the great thinkers of the world sought solitude to do their work. Come to the country and work on your great thoughts!

Meeting Rooms

The Executive Conference Center at Parish Patch is tucked away in the peaceful privacy of a 230 acre working farm in the hills of middle Tennessee just 60 miles from Nashville. Meet in the Executive Conference Center with a classroom set up for 60 or circle the leather chairs in the Great Room for an informal team building session by the fireplace. Send a break out group to the Inn's Patio Room or find the hammock to be alone with your thoughts. For the really important sessions meet around the executive board table. Tell us to hold calls from your office or stay in touch by email, fax, phone, or the internet.

Lodging
You won't have to leave the comforts of home when you retreat to Parish Patch. Our 21 bedrooms are furnished with plush beds, fine antiques, private baths, telephones, televisions, and running water!

Food Service
Start your day with a full country breakfast that is included in our room rates. For lunch have a fried chicken boxed lunch in your meeting room or graze at a deli bar in the Inn Dining Room. For dinner we suggest fine dining at our historic Cortner Mill Restaurant here on the farm. Whether you choose Cornish game hen, baked trout, or T-bone steak from cattle we raise, you will find a fabulous wine from our cellar to complement it.

Satisfied Executives
"Everyone was complimentary of not only the beautiful location, but the extra efforts put forth by Johnnie and David. Your attention to detail and the seclusion of your facility make it a perfect location for our marketing planning meeting. We look forward to our next opportunity to be your guests."
Dorothy Foster - Brown-Forman Beverages - Louisville, KY

"The privacy of your conference center was just what we needed for our annual summit meeting."
Fran Marcum - MicroCraft - Tullahoma, TN

"I think we were wise to go on this retreat, because it was the only way to really get time to write. I think it gave us a head start and the writing flowed more freely. We were ready to record again, to get some more music down on disc, because we wrote so much."
Martie Seidel - Dixie Chicks - CMA Album of the Year, 6 million sold

Free Time
Take the afternoon off for some recreation! Without leaving the property you can jog or hike for miles, swim, fish for trout, plan a game of volleyball, horseshoes, badminton, or cards. Golf at one of seven courses within 30 minutes. For the evening we can help arrange entertainment from musicians to storytellers!

Facilitator
Need a meeting facilitator? If you just need to getaway and be alone with your thoughts, we recommend you meet with Lane, our Golden Retriever. She's a great listener and never tells secrets. But if you need help keeping the staff meeting on track, David Hazelwood, the owner, is a professional meeting consultant with more than 35 years experience in all 50 states and can keep things moving. He specializes in team building, strategic planning, board and organization development. Plus he and Lane are already here!

Rates
Executive conference table for 12 or classroom tables for 60. Equipped with VCR, overhead, flip charts, and marker board. Complimentary with four lodging rooms.

• Five hours - $170
• Daily rate - $300

A $50 per unit deposit is required with the reservation and is fully refundable until 30 days before arrival date. The balance will be billed directly to your organization.

I can't stomach it any longer! I need to tell my side of the story or I will be sick with guilt. This confession actually starts with my stomach. Guests who come here many times over the years often ask David and Claudia, "what ever happened to Sneaker?" I'll tell you straight out. I ate him! There! I feel better already. Sneaker was a rooster who lived here before I was born. David can tell you how he got such a ridiculous name. He was kind of a mascot and a favorite with the guests. You might say he had this job before me. He would perch on the window sill at breakfast and crow as if begging for biscuits. The first day I saw him, I knew he was competition. I was just six months old and had run down the hill from the house to the Patch when I saw this big bird. I'm a bird dog, right? There you have it. Ask about Sneaker if you want, but please don't do it around me. It just makes me feel bad.

This regular column is from Lane, the golden retriever who owns the Hazelwoods, Parish Patch, and who knows what else.
Send Lane a message at lane@parishpatch.com

All Roads Lead To Parish Patch and Cortner Mill

61 miles from Nashville:

Take I-24 East to the Beech Grove-Shelbyville Exit 97. Turn right onto Highway 64-W, go 9.3 miles to Wartrace. Turn left onto Highway 269 East and go 5 miles to the entrance of Parish Patch on your left or 2 more miles to Cortner Mill on your left.

61 miles from Huntsville:

Take Highway 231 North to Fayetteville. Turn right onto Highway 64 East, then left onto Highway 50 and go to Lynchburg. From Lynchburg take Highway 55 North to Tullahoma. Turn left onto Highway 41-A and go 1 mile. Turn right onto Highway 269 North exactly beside K-Mart and go 7 miles to Cortner Mill on your right or 2 more miles to Parish Patch on your right.

86 miles from Chattanooga:

Take I-24 West 61 miles to the Tullahoma exit 117. Go 13 miles and turn left onto Carroll Street. Go 3 blocks to Highway 41-A North and turn right. Go 2.5 miles to Highway 269 North and turn right onto Highway 269 North exactly beside K-Mart and go 7 miles to Cortner Mill on your right or 2 more miles to ParishPatch on your right.

10 miles from Shelbyville:

Take Highway 41-A South for 5 miles to Normandy Road. Turn left and go 3 miles to Dement Road. Turn left and go 1/4 mile to Cortner Road. Turn left and go 1 mile to Parish Patch entrance on your right or turn right and go 1 mile to Cortner Mill on your left.

43 miles from I-65 South:

Take I-65 North to the Lewisburg exit 22. Turn right and follow Highway 31-A North through Lewisburg to Highway 64 East. Turn right onto Highway 64 East and go 15 miles to Shelbyville. In Shelbyville turn right onto Highway 41-A South. Go 5 miles to Normandy Road. Turn left and go 3 miles to Dement Road. Turn left and go 1/4 mile to Cortner Road. Turn left and go 1 mile to Parish Patch entrance on your right or turn right and go 1 mile to Cortner Mill on your left.