Barreca Vineyards

Barreca Vineyards

From Vine to Wine since 1986

Archive for 2016

New Facebook Page

We have a new Facebook Business page: https://www.facebook.com/BarrecVineyards/ with pictures and more recent events.  One of these events was the sponsor’s dinner at Lovitt Restaurant that is closing it’s Colville Valley location and looking for a spot in a bigger Washington city, perhaps somewhere near you.

M is for May

This blog is brought to you by the letter M. M is for mushrooms, mainly Morel mushrooms. We have taken 6 mushroom expeditions, mostly in May and most were more successful than the one before. Picking morels is a lot like playing hooky. We have lots of gardening and I have lots of maps to… (read more)

Emergent Spring Response

The title pun compares the burst of farming activity this April to emergency services. Actually there was a bit of both this last month and an inordinate amount of photos to go with each meaning. So sorry folks, this is a long blog to slog through. We have only had a few fires in the… (read more)

Show Time

It’s a rare rainy day this Spring and I am jamming on a blog hopefully before we go on our own Magical Mystery Tour. March has come and gone in a blur mostly due to preparing for and attending two big shows, the annual Panorama Gem and Mineral Club Rock and Gem show and the… (read more)

2016 Grape Plants

The 2016 Grape plants are ready to plant.  You can download the new catalog and see what we have.  It is designed to print on both sides of three pieces of paper but will print on one side if that is easier for you. You can pick up plants here at the vineyard or this… (read more)

Vampire Rated

Technically it is not yet spring. But Spring is breaking out all over anyway. Early in February we got a couple inches of snow but not enough to call in a snow plow to clear the driveway. I did call up the plow guy on February 10th to clear a path through frozen snow to… (read more)

The Blue Light Special

A big question going into the winter was “Will we get enough snow?” El Nino jumped on that one and we have plenty of snow. My new barometer has been shifting up and down as systems move in and out building up over a foot of snow early in the month, with much more than… (read more)

Chills and Thrills

Here are some pictures from the holidays.

Sledding with James and Joe

Sledding with James and Joe

James gets snowy but wants to go again

James gets snowy but wants to go again

April and James take a run.

April and James take a run.

James gets a new fire truck at Mary Selecky's Christmas dinner party.

James gets a new fire truck at Mary Selecky’s Christmas dinner party.

The office gets a coat of snow.

The office gets a coat of snow.

Our driveway looks good after being plowed 3 times.

Our driveway looks good after being plowed 3 times.

The tree wise trees

The tree wise trees

The Stranger Creek stone house New Year's Eve.

The Stranger Creek stone house New Year’s Eve.

The New Year's bonfire was welcome at zero degrees.

The New Year’s bonfire was welcome at zero degrees.