by Michelle Moran | Oct 19, 2025 | The Writer
I wrote this post last spring as we were embarking on our journey back from Sicily to the US. I had not posted it as we were immediately submerged in life in the States, scrambling with renovations, farm dinners, and family affairs. What a joy it was to spend the...
by Michelle Moran | Jul 28, 2024 | The Writer
Technology is both my best friend and enemy. In the mornings, my practice has been to open my email and start the day by knocking out to-do lists before I write. The writing never comes because the lists are always so long. Then something happened the other day. I was...
by Michelle Moran | Feb 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
I have been quiet for a while now. Last year was, well, y’all know, it was 2020. ‘Nuff said?Anyway, while I haven’t written, I have also not been idle. We’ve redesigned the blog site and a few other websites for the Lit’l Pond group, built a small retreat on Ambergris...
by The Chef And The Writer | Sep 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last night was the first time I have dreamt in six months. Or let me say, it’s the first time I vividly recall dreaming. The memories I hold may be non-sequential, but I don’t think that matters since the image shards my brain was tossing at me had very A Clockwork...
by The Chef And The Writer | Jan 8, 2017 | #BestofBlueRidge, #ChefDannyMellman, #MasseriaKitchen, #SustainableFarming
This New Year brings us exciting news. We worked to create a vision for the next 10 years for our company and part of that was building our restaurant properties to a place where we could own the land beneath our business. Along with that goal, comes many other...
