It has been quite some time since I posted here. I decided to take on this adventure and suddenly life went crazy - in a great way. My business is thriving and planning this trip has been amazing. I leave in 4 days and cannot wait to begin!
I picked the name for my blog in the early stages of planning - 10 weeks seemed like a reasonable goal for my travels. And then I went to book my ticket and alas could not get 10 weeks to work with all the other factors in play. So, I will be gone 9 weeks. Still thrilled and just so excited about what the future will hold.
On night one, I will be participating in a beautiful meditation to bring positive energy to the gulf in this time of need. This is being organized by my dear friend Val in Sarasota - she has sent me a small handful of stones that I will be buried at various places along my journey.
I begin my trip in Florence. Time there will be short lived to begin as I immediately get on a bus and head to my first adventure just outside of Montepulciano (about an hour and a half south of Florence) at Podere Il Casale. I have the good fortune of helping make cheese for 3 weeks while one of the cheese makers is on vacation. We'll be making sheep milk Pecorino and goat milk Caprino, along with ricotta using organic, unpasteurized milk from the 150 sheep and 26 goats raised on the farm. At the property, they also have olive orchards, 12 aces of red/white grapes for wine, bee hives, wheat fields, pigs for charcuterie and a small garden harvested for the 45 seat restaurant. They make breads and pastas from the wheat and try to be self sufficient in every possible way.
I hope you will join me on my adventures and share in the beauty of Italy through my eyes.
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