Grape Sex

Posted on Feb 2, 2011 in Blog, Cultivating Well-being, Featured, Shaping Taste, Sustainable, Vineyards | 4 comments The recent New York Times article telling us that the lack of sex is hurting the health of wine grapes, got me thinking. How do grapes have sex? First of all, grapes are ‘bisexual. It all ideally starts with the flower having both male and female sex organs, how convenient is that? The male pollen lands on the female equivalent, the stigma. The fertilization process results in a crossing...
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Remember to Vote!

Posted on Oct 30, 2010 in Blog, Reflections, Sustainable | 0 comments Never before has your vote counted as much as now. You may be unhappy with what’s happening in this country. You may be pleased and optimistic with the amount of progress made in the last two years. You may be nervous and fearful about the extreme views and violence expressed by some political perspectives. All of these maybes are reason to vote. Add your power to the future. Take...
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Bio-Dynamics

Posted on Jul 22, 2010 in Biodynamics/Organics, Blog, Cultivating Well-being, Reflections, Sustainable | 0 comments I am always surprised at how much discussion and angst the topic of biodynamic wine brings.  So I decided I wanted to do my part at looking at bio-dynamics.  How about definitions first before getting into philosophy. Bio = life. Dynamics = related to physical force or energy, motion, pattern of growth or change, variation in intensity. So biodynamics, in my mind separate from Rudolph...
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Cultivating health

Posted on Feb 11, 2010 in Blog, Cultivating Well-being, Edibles, Sustainable | 0 comments SCHOOL GARDENS Hat’s off and shovels down to Michelle Obama for setting the example for growing our own food. What a concept for starting a health program.  Getting in touch with the beginnings – from seeds to something good to eat. My first experience with a garden that schooled me, was at a small seaside town on the Left Coast where I apprenticed to an eccentric garden keeper and I fell...
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