Book Review – Taming Fruit:  How orchards have transformed the land, offered sanctuary, and inspired creativity by Bernd Brunner

I’ve gone through several gardening books since the last post in the winter gardening book review series, but none of them were right for writing a review.  Not that they were bad books, but they were reference books that don’t lead to much to review.  They were useful if you needed them, but hardly theContinue reading “Book Review – Taming Fruit:  How orchards have transformed the land, offered sanctuary, and inspired creativity by Bernd Brunner”

Nursery Update – Week of April 2, 2021

This week continues to bring new signs of spring, even if the weather has turned back into winter.  We’ve got a lot of new growth going on at the nursery, both for the near term and long term future.   Our seedlings are coming along well.  We mentioned some of the varieties that we are growingContinue reading “Nursery Update – Week of April 2, 2021”

Making a Batch of Fruit Wine

I just started making fruit wine a little over a year ago.  It was actually on memorial day weekend of 2019 that I started.  I just started my 4th batch of wine, and for the first time ever I’ve got 2 batches going at the same time (I’m not counting bottle aging in this).  IContinue reading “Making a Batch of Fruit Wine”