Sid Garza-Hillman: Blue Zones & Making the 100% Choice
THE BIG IFS by Sid Garza-Hillman A preamble: I’ve been 100% plant-based since 2002, and over the last fourteen years, primarily whole plants (as opposed to the junk vegan [...]
Joan & Jeff Message: Finding Hope In Nature
Our hearts go out to the men, women, and children in the Ukraine caught in an unimaginable conflict. In this time of war as well as the darkness of [...]
The Art of Connection: Valentine’s Day 2022
Valentine's Day is a celebration of relationship, founded in love, a term that resists definition. Love is more than pheromones or the qualities of a partner's hair, their physique, their [...]
Ravens’ Recipe: Wild Mushroom and Spinach Roulade
Stanford Inn’s Ravens Restaurant presents: A favorite holiday entrée that can be made ahead and frozen. Served with roasted Brussels sprouts and/or roasted baby carrots, this dish is elegant, colorful, and [...]
Personal Growth: Prepare Yourself for Wisdom
"Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, [...]
The Gift of Health
The Stanford Inn is the kind of place we would all build if we were as singled-minded, as energetic, as creative as the Stanford family. The Inn is wonderful!!” [...]
Pandemic Reflections: Change Your Mind
This past year and a half gave us an opportunity to open to nature, attending to movement and changes with the seasons that we had failed to notice when [...]
According to Sid: The Mind & Body Connection
This is Sid. I LOVE teaching classes at the resort and working with clients — teaching nutrition, cooking, and my small steps approach to health and happiness. [...]
Earth Care: Four small changes you can make that DO make a difference…
ONE American's toilet paper requires “harvesting” 7,000,000 trees per year, mostly Canadian White Spruce which are found in the world's boreal forests. These forests are the planet's largest terrestrial [...]
Pandemic Reflections: The Vaccine Decisions that Allow Us to Open
A Brief Introduction... We recently announced that we were reopening Ravens for indoor dining to vaccinated diners, after considerable thought. We were thanked and we were attacked. We found [...]