We are continuing to have conversations with the County Public Health department regarding our Friday morning breakfast salon. The County wants to make sure we aren’t running a restaurant out of our home. As I have reported on this blog previously, and in comments on the Ann Arbor Chronicle website, we are not a restaurant, cafe, or any other type of food establishment. We are family and friends who like to get together on Friday mornings, in our home, to cook, share a meal, and work towards local food initiatives, including building gardens and hoop houses in collaboration with Agrarian Adventure and Ann Arbor Public Schools.

To that end, we are making a few changes to address the County’s concerns, and to clarify our intention and activities.

What used to be called Selma Cafe will now be referred to as Friday Mornings @SELMA. Since we aren’t a cafe, we won’t call ourselves a cafe.

We will not give any indication to visitors to our website that we are “advertising to” or “inviting the general public”. Please contact us directly if we haven’t met you, so that we can personally invite you to come by on Friday morning. We enjoy making new connections.

We will not use any signage on our property that gives anyone an indication that we are having a gathering in our home. We will not call anyone “guest chef”, or “server” on the website. We will not call what we are eating at our house a “menu”.

We will not post the starting and ending hours of Friday Mornings @SELMA on our website.

What we will continue to do is make and share food with friends on Friday mornings. Throughout the times we gather we will encourage and promote conversation, discussion, networking, brainstorming and planning to support our mission and goals.

We look forward to seeing friends, old and new, sometime soon.