BRINGING WINE HOME: UPDATE!
If you aren't able to make it to the Kentucky Green Living Fair to get one in person, Jesse's book Bringing Wine Home is now availabe on Amazon or as a digital download!
BEFORE WE GO.
We are SO EXCITED for the Kentucky Green Living Fair coming up in just a few short weeks! Not only will we get to reconnect with many of our favorite farmers, but there will be food, music, and lots of demos and workshops on topics like beekeeping, homebrewing, fiber arts, raising milk goats, composting, DIY solar....and on and on and on. Jesse will be teaching a workshop on fermentation!BUT - since we are leaving in two days for Bugtussle....we have A LOT of work to do in preparation, trying to take advantage of computers and phones and printing shops while we have the chance. We are bringing lots of shirts, bags, posters, books, and notecards with us to the fair, and I have been hustling to get everything sorted and ready. Here's a little peek at what you can find at the fair! We truly hope to see many of you there....we would love to meet you!- Hannah.
IDEA FARMING.
Yesterday on the blog we announced that I wrote a book, and I'd like to say thank you to everyone who has purchased it so far or who plans to at the fair. At a time when all our farm has to sell is our ideas––be it the t-shirts or the book––we're greatly appreciative of the support. You're helping to plant our farm, so thank you.Hannah and I will be moving onto the farm in a week. For keeps. I've been really excited about this fact, but knew it meant I would not have much access to electricity––or free time––over the next six months or so. Not enough to finish editing an entire book. So I decided to divide and conquer, starting with the first third––Book One––which is available now through print copy (and hopefully digital soon). Book Two will be available in the fall, completed when I can steal some time and sleep from myself, and Book Three will be ready the following winter. The books are practically complete now, they just need extensive editing which, for Book One, was graciously provided by Erin Breeding of The Breedings. It would not be the same book without her guidance (thank you, Erin!).I would also like to add how inspired I've been lately by the self-publishing world which, just five or so years ago, would have probably been a pretty hilarious thing to say. But now the quality is great, and the options limitless. For writers like me who write books about how natural wine introduced them to vegetable farming, which suddenly turns into a love story, it just makes sense. Especially when the writer then decides they want to release it in three parts. Self-publishing is just more flexible in that way.Thank you again for you support––you all are amazing. If you have any questions about the book, please let me know!- Jesse.
BRINGING WINE HOME: BOOK ONE.
Over the course of the last year and half––in the mornings before the sun would come up, and in the evenings when the gardens were dark––I sat down and hammered out my story. I wrote when it was raining, when it was dark, through good times, and a surprisingly healthy dose of bad. I wrote every chance I found, and when I looked up, I had a book. This book. A book I'm proud (and thrilled, and terrified) to finally say––with the help of my friends, family and lovely, supportive wife––is officially done.Bringing Wine Home is a memoir about how––through natural wine, food and farming––I came to meet my wife, and the adventure that followed. For reasons I'll be explaining on the blog tomorrow, the entire book will be released in three parts over the next year––a trilogy. Book One, all 80 or so pages of it, is the first release and mostly my book. It's a story about how a few unique winemakers inspired me as a young man––struggling with alcohol addiction in myself and my family––to want to make wine, and want to do so in Kentucky. And although it's technically a book about wine, and a book because of it, it is hardly a technical wine book. I took great pains to make sure most anyone would enjoy its narrative, wine lover or not.For those of you who know and follow our story, I only hope this project will enrich it. Each book will be filled with stories we haven't yet told on the blog––or haven't told as in depth––and pieces of our story we might never have had the opportunity to tell, had it not been for Bringing Wine Home. Books Two and Three will be out within the year––which again, I'll explain all of that tomorrow––but for now, I hope you will enjoy Book One, the story of how anyone in their right mind could one day find themselves farming.Here is the link to purchase Book One. The book will also soon be available on Amazon, and we will be bringing lots of copies with us to the Kentucky Green Living Fair as well!- Jesse.UPDATE! Now available on Amazon!