Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:09 — 5.9MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSYou might tell from the photo that we’re in winter, 2015 in fact. Still plenty to write (and talk) about though. Locally and nationally. Even the title is long.
Category: Vineyard Years Chapters 2014
The Vineyard Years, A podcast, Chapter 21 : Winter Pruning, not as easy as you think
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:59 — 7.2MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSYep, heading for winter and another set of vineyard skills to be learned. This time about how to get the vines into shape for maximum productivity next year. Otherwise known as winter pruning and you thought there would be nothing…
The Vineyard Years, A podcast, Chapter 20 : Snatching victory from defeat, kind of
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:50 — 6.6MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSSo onward towards winter. A quieter time in our vineyard and time to admire the efforts of others in the Yorkshire vineyard world. A little wine-making but not much.
The Vineyard Years, A podcast Chapter 19: Disaster Strikes
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:52 — 7.5MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSJust when things seemed to be going quite well, at least by our standards, out of the blue, literally, came disaster. This in the form of the birds. In this case it was the early bird that got the (unripe)…
The Vineyard Years: A podcast. Chapter 18, What a month
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:33 — 6.8MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSThe story continues about life in the vineyard with all its ups and downs.
The Vineyard Years. A podcast: Chapter 17 August and a lot happening
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:11 — 7.2MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSThe story rolls on into August and the grapes develop but there are always anxieties and one way of expanding those anxieties is to attend a course and find out about more things that could go wrong. You know what…
The Vineyard Years. A podcast Chapter 16: We really do have grapes now
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:27 — 5.5MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSIn this chapter more about sheds or the winery as we like to call it. Anybody would think we only set up the vineyard so I had an excuse for having more sheds. Not entirely wrong. That’s a picture of…
The Vineyard Years. A podcast Chapter 15 : There’s an awful lot to do but I guess that’s good
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:48 — 6.0MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSIn this chapter of the vineyard years podcast, we thought we actually had grapes but it turned out they were in fact the flowers that, if we are lucky, precede the grapes. So we have some way to go before…
The Vineyard Years. A podcast. Chapter 14 : The merry month of May
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:53 — 4.5MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSA report on the modest progress of our Trapping Hill vineyard set against the back drop of English vineyards generally. We’ve a long way to go.
The Vineyard Years A podcast. Chapter 13 : It’s all kicking off
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:55 — 5.6MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSWell we asked for buds and we got them even though they were reluctant to pop their heads out of their plastic tubes. It was freezing this April as you can see. But we got the buds and 200 willows…