As you could expect, this is a very busy time of year at the vineyard. So to shorten the blog to a minimum I will just put a link here for an article I wrote in the North Columbia Monthly for October – and have recreated here on this website. It is called Dirt First and gives the basics of Regenerative Agriculture. Then I will put in some pictures with captions.
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Dried Fruit for the winter
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Tomatoes coming on
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Filberts from out trees
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Hot Lips are still in bloom
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Paste Tomatoes
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Crab Apples
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The Red Oak picture by Cheryl
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Marechal Foch Grapes
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The Rav4 broke a timing belt on the way to the Farmers Market
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Siegerrebe Grapes in the crusher
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Cheryl sold her 4 wheel drive Toyota to my daughter April. Maybe James will be able to drive it in 2030.
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Lucie Kuhlmann primary fermentation
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Friends picking a future French Rocks Red wine
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Big Cat Face spider
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Siegerrebe Grapes at Downriver Orchard
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Our VW Vanagon cracked ahead – out for the season
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Kit and Sharon Shultz crushing grapes with Tom Distler
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Amber and Tom helping out
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A big Black Lab Cheryl rescued from the highway and found the owners for
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Himrod Grapes
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3 cords of wood delivered