Almost before the first raspberry wine was out of the fermentor I started a second batch. The smell was just TOO amazing. Check out the recipe for the first raspberry wine here. The second wine was started on August 12, 2017. Raspberry Wine #2 5 lbs raspberries from the garden…
There are 30 glorious feet of raspberries in the Timber Garden, and they are my favorite berry plants. I could eat raspberries off the vine all day, and sometimes I really do just go graze the plants for breakfast. During the peak of summer they produce several lbs of raspberries…
The first year of the Timber Garden, my parents asked me how many peas I had planted. ‘Oh, almost a full bed,’ I said. They laughed. A month later I was furiously picking peas every day. Peas are prolific, but any pea grower experiences a sense of loss looking at…
I love the taste of rhubarb. Rhubarb crisp has been my favorite dessert since I was a kid. And since we have lived in McCall with several productive plants, I’ve tried rhubarb chutney and rhubarb bbq sauce and they are pretty great too. It’s that crazy tart flavor. My friend…
They say blueberry wine can be very similar to a Cabernet Sauvignon. We had a freezer full of blueberries my father in law had given us in 2015. They were in the deep freeze, so they didn’t have any sign of freezer burn, but a gallon of wine seemed like…
This blackberry wine will always hold a special place in the wine rack of my heart. It’s the first wine we ever tried to make, after purchasing a book called Booze for Free by Andy Hamilton. It’s a great book, I highly recommend it. The recipes use tea instead of…