This fall (2017) my cousin contacted me and said she was going to Washington and bringing back apples. Could we make cider? Absolutely. We are still in love with the small batch we made in 2016, 22 bottles of sparkling clear apple cider. We’ve been hoarding them all year! Cider…
I moved the oyster logs into the garden last year after the chickens ate our first flush of oyster mushrooms. Not that I wouldn’t feed them mushrooms, since I appreciate all the delicious eggs they lay, but the first ones? Anyhow, on October 23, 2017, we happened to pull some…
In November of 2017 we drove to Santa Barbara to celebrate at Ryan and Laurie’s wedding! It was a little early for citrus, but on the way back through California we pick up a flat of oranges. Rumor has it oranges can make a great wine! Toby willingly gave up…
I know a lot of you have been keeping up with the peapod wine on Instagram! Some of you have even been over for a taste, and it may have been a good or bad day for this VERY volatile wine. Read on for the tasting notes from carboy to…
We just got back from a November roadtrip to California. On a winding road in the center of the state I saw a hillside COVERED with ripe prickly pears. They seemed to be public domain, but the hillside was incredibly steep and there was no shoulder. We knocked on the…