Barreca Vineyards

Barreca Vineyards

From Vine to Wine since 1986

Archive for November 2020

Masses of Grasses

Did you ever notice how once you start looking hard at something and identifying it, you begin to see it everywhere?  I used to cut my own firewood and started seeing dead snags along every forest road.  Then I learned about different kinds of rocks and pretty soon while driving my wife would ask me… (read more)

Laws of Nature

Laws of Nature This year I have a large compost pile.  My wonderful science-teacher daughter gave me a 20 inch long compost pile thermometer to keep track of what is going on in there.  There is lots of advice for making compost on the package.  A little like a recipe they list what activities happen… (read more)

Friday the 13th

On Friday the 13th we had a snowfall of 12 inches

The epic 12 inch snowfall on Friday the 13th caused power outages all over this region. We were without power for 17 hours. But the biggest impact for this website was that the server farm in Kettle Falls which hosts Barreca Vineyards.com had power fluctuations that destroyed the server for our website. The restored backup lacked blog posts for the last 4 months along with inventory changes. We have a more regular backup system now but this is the first post since the blackout. The lost posts will be restored soon.