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Continue reading →: VolunteersSome people call them unwanted. Some people call them weeds. To me anything that puts its roots down without my planning or intent is simply a volunteer. I for one think we do not have enough volunteering in this world, and when they do occur, they should be encouraged.
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Continue reading →: Ripe For the PickingThere is no single definition when grapes are considered ripe, or in other words, when to pick grapes for wine making. What a wine maker will consider “ripe” will depend on the grape variety, the location grown, the wine making style, etc. What my neighbor considers ripe I may not,…
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Continue reading →: Building Sugar Brix by BrixBrix (or Degrees Brix or °Brix) is a fancy term for one way of measuring the sugar content of something like a grape juice (Brix = the sugar content of an aqueous solution). Sugar content is an important number to know for the wine maker, as sugar in grapes will…
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Continue reading →: Mulberry WineContinuing in a series, of indeterminate length, of fruit wine, I decided to write about another fruit that grows on our property and which makes excellent wine: the mulberry tree. We have both white and black mulberry trees, and the black mulberry is here used to make the wine (the…
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Continue reading →: Cherry WineDelightful and refreshing wines can be crafted from many different sources, such as from dandelions, watermelon, mulberries, cherries, etc. Grapes are the most frequently used source for wine for many reasons, but partially because grapes come off the vine with all the correct levels of sugar, acidity and other factors…
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Continue reading →: A Touch of ColorIn late July most grape varieties start to enter the ripening phase of their growth. This is often defined narrowly with the French term veraison. In July, the start of the ripening phase is often visibly, and more roughly, described as the time when the grape berries start to change…
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Continue reading →: Messy Enough To Be HealthyWhen I was a child, my mother had a cross stitch saying framed and hung on the wall of our home that said: This home is clean enough to be healthy and messing enough to be happy. I think we all know what that means. While the dishes were always…
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Continue reading →: The Bottle CollectorExcept for saving a nice looking stamp off a letter from time to time, I am not much of a collector. To me collections of “stuff” in of themselves are little more than dust collectors (and of things to collect, dust is not on the top of my list). I…
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