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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Julia Demer

I Had Lunch at Martha Stewart’s Bedford Farm – These Are the 5 Outdoor Entertaining Essentials She Told Me She Won't Host Without

Outdoor summer tablescape featuring neutral tableware and a series of money trees.

Hosting alfresco is hard – because of the weather, because of unwanted flying friends, because of the drink orders that have you schlepping indoors and out. So when Martha Stewart tells you the five things she’d never have a garden party without to make these occasions feel effortless, you listen.

I recently did just that. A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of visiting her personal farm in Bedford, where she invited me to celebrate the launch of Hint, Martha's new AI-powered home management platform informed by her decades of homemaking expertise. The estate spans roughly 150 acres, complete with a summer house, winter house, and immaculate horse stables where Martha keeps her Friesians.

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