Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:18 — 5.7MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSThe last chapter of 2013. It’s entitled a review of the year but on re-acquaintance, it’s really nothing of the sort. It casts an envious eye towards other established vineyards and their success, mostly down south. At a local level…
Category: Vineyard Years Chapters 2013
The Vineyard Years Podcast begins with chapters from 2013. This is the start of the adventure…..
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Vineyard Years Podcast Chapter 8
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:01 — 4.8MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSWhen a person has the kind of mad flight of fantasy that seems compatible with setting up their own vineyard, like me they probably don’t imagine the detailed and apparently mundane decisions that it will lead to. This podcast, for…
Vineyard Years Podcast Chapter 7
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:13 — 4.3MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSWhen you start a new venture there’s always a question about how much support and advice you seek from other people who have more expertise. In our case that’s everybody, but whether it is a good idea to join a…
Vineyard Years Podcast Chapter 6
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:02 — 5.5MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSIn this chapter we do have grapes – not many but a few. But they’re not anywhere near as memorable as my daughter’s reaction to her wildlife discoveries and her anthropomorphic view of our new vines. Find the original blog…
Vineyard Years Podcast Chapter 5
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:36 — 4.5MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSChapter 5 sees me moving into somebody else’s vineyard. An established one of over 10,000 vines at that time. I’m trying to acquire some wine-making expertise should we ever get grapes of our own. We’ve a long way to go…
Vineyard Years Podcast Chapter 4
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:37 — 5.2MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSThis is chapter 4 and we move deeper and deeper into the world of windbreaks. That’s the ones we should have planted a year before putting in the vines. Instead they’re more than a year behind the vines. Took quite…
Vineyard Years Podcast Chapter 3
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:29 — 4.5MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSThis is the third chapter of The Vineyard Years Podcast and is about probably our number one enemy, namely the wind. Wind is the enemy of vines, as a fellow northern vineyard owner told me before we started. We didn’t…
Vineyard Years Podcast Chapter 2
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:52 — 6.1MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSThis is chapter 2 of The Vineyard Years Podcast. Recollection can sometimes be faulty and there is a correction statement explaining the true origin of the vineyard. For the sadists among you it details more reasons not to be cheerful…
Vineyard Years Podcast Chapter 1
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:33 — 7.9MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSThis is the very first podcast in the series of The Vineyard Years. It’s taken from the book (available as an e-book and a paperback from Amazon) which describes the on-going process over 7 years (so far) of establishing a…