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BRINGING WINE HOME: BOOK TWO.

....IS OFFICIALLY OUT!bringing wine home 2.You can find it on Amazon HERE  (and as an e-book very soon) and read it anywhere––your apartment, the train, space––totally your call.For the uninitiated, Bringing Wine Home is a book project I've been working on for the last couple of years. It's the story of how I came to find farming (Book One), my first year on the farm and how I met my wife (the recently released Book Two), then our crazy first year of marriage (Book Three––available spring-ish 2014). Do you have to have read Book One to enjoy Book Two? No way––at least not necessarily. Though I believe Book One enriches the experience obviously, it's not a necessity. If you want, try Book Two out, and if you enjoy it, go back and read the first. Oh, and as the description reads, although it's technically a book about wine, and a book because of it, it is hardly a technical wine book. It is for anyone and everyone and that's you!Thank you and enjoy!- Jesse.

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A DAY IN PHOTOS: BERRY WINE.

This past weekend, Jesse spent three hours harvesting blueberries and wild blackberries. On Monday, with the help of visiting friends, we made the years first batch of berry wine....and it is already bubbling and smelling good!blackberries. the haul. thorns! winemaking.winemaking.

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THIS & THAT.

Some random photos from the past week.garlic harvest.We had a long, hot day of harvesting garlic. But it was worth it!blackberry.Today, we will be making lots and lots of blackberry wine!little turtle!Adorable little turtle friend!hot piggie.One of Little Seed's piggies found a creative way to cool off.mushrooms.The kids learned how to identify mushrooms with spore prints.

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