If you've ever been to Riven Rock or read much about the ranch, you know we love to support local artisans and products. This week's vendor profile is to welcome our newest vendor, From the Earth Hill Country Pottery.
From the Earth is a labor of love for owner and artist Brian Burckhardt.
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With Easter coming up, this season brings back fond memories of traditional holiday celebrations. Easter egg painting and hunts, chocolate bunnies, wearing your best Easter dress to church, and beautiful spring weather and foliage are enough to bring back the Easter of anyone's childhood.
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Here's a softball confidence-building question for today if you're having a rough day: what do The Terrace Grill's crispy pizzas, red pepper bisque and roasted cauliflower have in common? If you guessed that some component is prepared using our Mugnaini wood-fired oven, you're correct! See, your day is getting better already.
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With our native vegetation coming alive and flowers blooming, this coming spring marks the return of our beautiful hummingbirds. Perhaps you've seen them pausing briefly at our feeders next to The Terrace Grill, or zipping from plant to plant as you walked around the rest of the ranch.
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It's no secret we love to use locally grown food at The Terrace Grill. Fresh and vibrant products make more delicious dishes and offer another way to experience what an area has to offer. The food is indicative of the area where it was grown, and like wine, takes on the minerally qualities of the land from which it came.
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It’s amazing how fixated on the weather we can become. We constantly check the forecast, which may or (more frequently) may not be close to accurate. It’s one of the things in the world that no matter how much we engineer, plan or try to outsmart Mother Nature, in the end, we find ourselves red faced.
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We've been trying to keep a closed lid on this-well not really seeing as it was featured in our newsletter-but we're pleased to announce that we have been featured in the January 2012 issue of Southern Living. Riven Rock Ranch was named one of the "South's Coziest Inns," among some of the finest inns and bed and breakfasts south of the Mason-Dixon.
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With the recent winter rainfall, we've had some relief from our drought and Hill Country residents are hopeful about wildflowers and greenery returning next spring! Golf courses are no exception, and we're hoping for a return to health for all the grass on the fairways.
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