Sam Beall

He ran Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee, a Beall family business which has been rated as among the best resorts in North America.

[2] The couple bought the property, located in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, in December 1976 and ran it as a small country inn.

He recruited kitchen staff and developed the attached FarmStead to produce ingredients, such as heirloom vegetables, charcuterie, and cheeses, for the food offered at the inn.

[3][4][5] Beall died in 2016, at the age of 39, of injuries he suffered from an accident while skiing at Beaver Creek, Colorado.

[6][7] The local coroner determined that he had hit a wooden sign post located between the ski runs and died of blunt force trauma to the chest.