WE’RE CLOSING FOR A LONG SEASON!

Dear friends,

After 4 years, Abadir’s has decided to close for an extended break.

The kitchen will not be taking orders or opening the corner shop in Greensboro for a long while. I won’t be available for bookings or custom orders. No more pop-ups for the foreseeable future.

This season of my life has shifted in many new directions and I have to accept and honor this season I’m in. It was a difficult decision to make, but the truth is...I need a break. I need to step back from this venture and think about how I really want to shape it.

I opened the shop for two weekends knowing I wouldn’t be opening again, but after so many months of working toward this, I wanted to give you all an opportunity to see it. We ended on a very high note. That last Saturday, the cottage was filled with people. How beautiful it was to serve everyone. How wonderful it was to feed you good food. I’m so grateful I experienced that after dreaming it for so long.

But now it’s time for me to step away from it all.

Seems like such a strange thing to say when the iron seems so hot. How can I shut it down after just having opened the doors? The simple fact of the matter is, I have to make the decision that works best for me and not allow the pressures of all the outside “success” cloud my own well-being.

I love this vision I have for Abadir’s and the space we’ve created, but it just isn’t possible to exert so much energy into it. Not right now. Full transparency, I feel as though most of my decisions as far as growing this business were reactionary to all the immediate attention and progress that happened in such a short amount of time. I don’t want to operate this business in that mindset anymore.

I’m closing for an extended season—the fall and winter, perhaps the spring too. I’m closing this venture at this season of my life. I’m hopeful I’ll come back to it with a happier heart and a clearer mind so that I won’t feel this need to push so hard all the time. I hope this time will give me the space I need to create a vision that works for myself and for this community.

This isn’t just some small business. It’s a creative venture with a lot of personal meaning behind it, which has made it difficult for me to hire, but maybe I’m not meant to grow to something larger. Maybe I can find a way to make it my creative outlet rather than my whole life.

To allow myself that freedom, I accepted a full-time job. I will serve as the chef at the Rural Studio kitchen all while helping the farm team expand their program to the community.

There’s also a little something else in the works. More on that later too.

I’m not closing forever. Just for a long while. And who knows what two months, six months, eight months will bring. Maybe I’ll feel a strong desire to do something fun sooner than I envision, but I’m not planning anything and I won’t force it. We’ll just see what happens.

Thank you all for the love, support and understanding. I’ll see you again soon.

Always in gratitude,

Sarah Cole