Sol Flower Blog

Category: industry

Cooking Up Goodness with Dean Armijo, GM of Sol Flower Sun City

Dean Armijo knows what it takes to create appetizing experiences. As a corporate chef and restaurant industry pro, Dean made sure some of the most important people in Arizona were full and happy. He has a few different things on his plate now as GM of Sol Flower Sun City and head of our Signature Cafe, and his commitment to his team and his community is stronger than ever.

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7 Products to Get You Through a Very 2020 Holiday

What do you get for the year that truly has it all? If we were doing the shopping, we’d gift wrap a swift kick out the door and a one-way ticket back to the demon planet from which it came. Yes, 2020 has been naughty, but the holidays are here to hopefully help us all end the calendar on an emotional uptick. 

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7 Products to Get You Turkey Ready This Month

Preheat the oven to 350, dig through your kitchen drawers for that old can opener, and find a comfortable cushion on the couch: Thanksgiving month is upon us! While birds everywhere prepare to get basted, you can use this time to mentally prepare yourself for in-laws (even if it’s dinner-by-Zoom this year). 

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7 Products to Make This Mother’s Day the Most Relaxing One Yet

Moms do everything, and they somehow make it look easy. Trust, it’s not easy to keep up with a home, excel at work, and have dinner on the table every night—and look good while doing it. So this year, treat your mom to something that can help her relax, unwind, and enjoy some well-deserved downtime, especially after the year moms have had. Because being cooped up in a home all year isn’t easy for anyone, but being cooped up in a home you have to maintain, while doubling as a teacher and a mother and keeping up with work, is even harder.

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7 strains for staying sane through summer

Time for our midsummer Arizona temperature check: actually, no, that would require us to go outside. Triple digits are a mainstay for the next couple months, with the occasional monsoon (and haboob!) to make things interesting. But that doesn’t bother us, right native Arizonans? Beats shoveling snow, right transplanted Midwesterners?? Let’s all keep our cool and keep telling ourselves these things to get through.

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7 strains for the puffing pop this Father’s Day

With no sports on TV and the Eagles world tour on indefinite hiatus, this has not been the best couple months for dads. Yours has likely had to re-prioritize a few things in his life, which means picking up new skills (learning how to voice text!) and spending more time at home (driving your mom insane!). Dad used to be able to simply retreat to his man cave to watch Jeopardy reruns and get away from it all – but 2020 has been more of a metaphorical man prison from which there’s precious little escape.

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7 strains just right for replacing a cold one

April is Alcohol Awareness Month, a time for compassion and open dialogue around substance use and abuse issues. Even if you don’t personally struggle with drinking, you’ve likely been touched by an epidemic that often goes underreported. Over a quarter of adult Americans reported binge drinking at least once a month, with an additional 6% saying they’ve consumed 4-5 drinks in a two hour span at least five times in a month.

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