Setiembre on the Farm-Part Dos
So, after a grueling three days of shanking, and earth moving and mountain building, and rock moving and road destruction, and eating DUST, we’ve got a mess on our hands. In only 7 days, we cleared nearly 4 acres with the ripper and the bobcat raker. It was dirty, dirty work. A layer of pig pen dust encircled our every movement and you won’t believe the nature of our nostril inhabitants. Wow, farming’s harder than I thought! Peace Out,
Read MoreWineGirl at work
Here’s some photos from this week’s work doing calculations, checking on the tanked wine, and cleaning...
Read MoreLabel of the Month: LotM for October
As Back-to-School commercials have indicated the impending return of students to school, so does October harken the appropriate nature of this Label of the Month weblog entry. I’ve chosen a wine label in the portfolio of the British owned Alchemy Wines, Ltd. Alchemy Wines, from what I have gleaned off their website is a wine branding company that works in the post-production stage of wine to create wine identities, then deliver them to the market place. They are essentially distributors of branded wine portfolios. It was quite a struggle to find anything about this wine or the label,...
Read MoreSetiembre on the Farm
Ten days ago, I arrived back to the farm, jolly, clean and eager to do some damage to some apple suckers. Oo, oo, it was a quick start to the dirt as a visit to the rental shop brought us this little beauty. Our new toy came equipped with an earth moving bucket in the front and 2, 2 foot shanks in the back. Oh my, what a marvel! So, it was done, and the John Deere 450 was to be delivered that afternoon. We departed the rental shop to the words “Good luck. You’ll find things you never knew you had.” Hmm. I thought I heard that one somewhere before. No matter. Off, to the...
Read MoreThis time in 4 years we'll be picking grapes!
Dust. Dust. Dust. dust. bust. pust. qust. think that one’s a scrabble word? All I can smell right now is dust. My wine smells like dust, my “clean” clothes smell like dust. My eyes are leaking dust, I can’t hear out of my left ear ’cause I think it’s full of DUST. We started off the week at Sesto Cielo’s 10 acres, ambitiously believing we could shank it all in 2 days. HAH! my friends. The heavens above have something else in store for our little orchard, fallowed be thy name. We managed to shank the NW quadrant in 3 days and I am trying to maintain...
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