#Grape Growing In South Carolina

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The car made its way along a tree-lined gravel road. The sky was clear, and as the car drove by, the trees swayed from side to side, almost like a sign of welcome. The road opened up into a large pasture. In the middle of the pasture was a wooden pergola with grapes growing on it and a circular garden surrounding it. Tiny houses darted the pasture, as brown children played merrily in the mud. In the center of all of this, planting in the circular garden like she was Mother Earth herself, was a Black woman.

For Chantel Johnson, this scene was “heaven.” It was actually Bear Creek, North Carolina, in May 2016, but more importantly, it was Johnson’s first glimpse into homesteading, and she was hooked at first sight. 

Johnson, an African-American woman in her late 20s at the time, made her way up the gravel road that day with her boyfriend, whom she’d met a few months prior on OK Cupid. Johnson was attracted to his profile picture: a shot of him standing with goats. She recalls thinking to herself, “Are those goats? I want to meet those goats!” 

Chantel Johnson at her first homestead in Chatham County, North Carolina, 2016. Photo courtesy Chantel Johnson

Johnson was grieving and depressed. It had been less than a year since her younger brother, who had been shot and paralyzed on the South Side of Chicago in 2014, succumbed to his injuries and passed away, in August 2015. 

She carried that grief with her up the gravel road that day to visit her boyfriend’s friends, an interracial couple — Black wife and white husband, with kids — who owned a 30-acre homestead in Bear Creek. When the friends offered Johnson and her beau the opportunity to live with them on the homestead and help out, Johnson jumped at the chance. If this was heaven, then perhaps she could find the antidote for her grief here. 

One of the first official uses of the term “homesteading” was in 1862 with the passing of the Homestead Act, signed by President Abraham Lincoln to encourage western expansion and United States agricultural development. But the act of homesteading — a focus on self-sufficiency dependent on the land, with an emphasis on subsistence agriculture — predates the Homestead Act, especially for Black Americans.

Homesteading knowledge and skills allowed slaves to create a modicum of a life for themselves by growing their own supplemental food, raising small livestock and making needed tools and home goods. This same knowledge sustained Black families during the Reconstruction era and beyond. While there have been several resurgences of the self-sufficient homesteading mind-set in the United States, the face of these movements has been overwhelmingly white. 

Meanwhile, Black people, and Black women in particular, have become the poster children for the antithesis of the values homesteading espouses. In contrast to self-sufficiency and hard work, Black women are stereotyped as dependent, disproportionately reliant on public assistance, and unwilling to work, perhaps most famously by former President Ronald Reagan’s racialized “welfare queen” remarks.

Black women also bear the brunt of many of our nation’s worst health outcomes, including high rates of obesity, high mortality from heart disease and breast cancer, and some of the worst maternal health outcomes and infant mortality rates. Only recently has the medical field started to acknowledge the role of trauma in facilitating these disparities. 

Johnson recalls several layers of trauma from her childhood and young adult years. As a young girl growing up on the Southeast Side of Chicago, she remembers moments of joy and abundance contrasting starkly with moments of anger and scarcity, which flowed lockstep with the dwindling of the family’s financial resources from the first to the end of the month. 

Then as an undergraduate student at a predominantly white university in the Midwest, she recalls being shunned by white and more affluent Black classmates alike, because she didn’t speak or behave the way they felt someone in that space should. She quickly learned to code-switch, alternating between ways of speaking and behaving based on her surroundings. It’s a practice that many Black people are all too familiar with, in their efforts to live, work and study in predominantly white environments. 

She also struggled initially with coursework, attempting to translate her Chicago secondary education, where she graduated as salutatorian, to the rigors of university work. Johnson has conflicting feelings about the costs and benefits of her undergraduate education: “I was so fortunate to be at that school, where an institution had time to nurture me, but at the same time I was being traumatized and I was being changed. And that was a very difficult thing.”

Between 2012 and 2014, her middle brother and younger brother were each shot several times, but survived. The ultimate trauma was her younger brother’s untimely death, 15 months after he was shot in 2014.

Johnson received her bachelor’s degree, graduating cum laude, later earned a master’s degree and obtained a research job in North Carolina. But the impact of the trauma remained. Taken together, these experiences created a rage against “the system” in Johnson. She was angry about systemic racism and poverty and the laws, policies and institutions that uphold it. 

“I’ve done everything right — star child, went to college, went to Africa for a few months, did AmeriCorps, I volunteered, I got this job, and I don’t understand why this isn’t enough and my brothers are being shot,” she says.

This revelation, four months prior to discovering Bear Creek, marked the beginning of Johnson’s homesteading journey. In her mind, self-sufficiency was the only option, because the system wasn’t going to take care of her. It was rigged. 

Consequently, by the time she got her first glimpse of heaven, she was already intent on giving up her spacious two-bedroom townhouse in Durham, North Carolina — in exchange for less than 300 square feet of shared living space, with no electricity or plumbing, and an outside toilet. And to gradually transition from her research job, where she was miserable, in exchange for hard labor cultivating, raising animals and living off the land. 

The transition came with other challenges as well. Johnson recalls initially being scared of the chickens she was tasked with putting back into their coops every night, having to rely on the assistance of a 5-year-old on the homestead for help. Also, after moving to Bear Creek permanently, two of the first homesteading tasks Johnson learned were chopping wood and lighting the wood-burning stove for cooking and heat. Two months later, Johnson found herself in the dead of winter, cold in the tiny house. Everyone else was away; she was alone and crying because she couldn’t light the wood-burning stove. 

“That’s when I started to regret my decision,” Johnson remembers. But thankfully her cell phone still worked, so she found a YouTube video that walked her through lighting such a stove. Figuring out how to do it convinced her that maybe she could make it in this way of life. That she could bet on herself to succeed in spite of the odds.

While Johnson didn’t grow up with examples of homesteading around her as a child, for Aja Yasir growing your own food was always a normal way of life. Her parents were a part of the Second Great Migration: the period from 1940 to 1970 when Black people migrated from the South to Northern states en masse. Both of her parents brought the practice of subsistence agriculture with them to Chicago, purchasing a vacant lot next to their home in Englewood, on the South Side, to establish a home garden. They weren’t alone; other families in the neighborhood also had home gardens. For Yasir’s parents, the act of growing your own food was bolstered by 1960s and 1970s Black health messaging from the Chicago branches of the Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam, and Chicago-based Black public figures like Dr. Alvenia Fulton.  

By the time Yasir was born, in the mid 1970s, growing food at home had become an established family tradition. A tradition that was almost broken when in her early adult years Yasir decided she wanted nothing to do with agriculture. Instead, she moved as far away from Chicago as she could, to pursue her bachelor’s degree in Atlanta. But a polarizing global figure would entice Yasir back to the land: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. 

Four-year-old Aja Yasir at her parents’ garden in Chicago.  Photo courtesy of Aja Yasir

It was late 2005, Yasir had returned to the Chicago area, completed a master’s degree, and was working at a local radio station. A colleague at the station shared an article about Chávez ousting an American missionary group, New Tribes, from Venezuela, accusing them of being imperialists and exploiting indigenous people. Yasir’s interest was piqued. Then, in 2006, she heard Chávez’s United Nations speech, in which he referred to President Bush as “the devil,” in protest of U.S. global domination. Yasir wanted to investigate the conflicting media images of Chavez — hero of the poor versus villain of democracy. So she left Chicago for Venezuela, with no Spanish and a flimsy local job prospect. She stayed in a town in Barlovento, a region with a large population of Afro-Venezuelans, known for its cocoa production. 

Yasir still remembers how fresh everything tasted in Barlovento, and the prominence of locally grown and made food: “You cannot escape agriculture in that town because everybody is doing something involved with agriculture, whether it’s raising chickens in their yard, or growing bananas, or harvesting and making chocolate. Agriculture is just connected like that.” Barlovento made her appreciate her Englewood upbringing, rooted in urban agriculture. 

Her reunion with the land would come to serve her almost a decade later.  

Yasir considers herself to be someone with a lifetime of traumatic experiences, although she prefers not to retraumatize herself by going into detail about a lot of it. However, she did share about a recent anguish. In January 2016, her 3-week-old daughter, Yaminah, unexpectedly died, falling victim to a rare genetic condition. The cumulative effects of years of unresolved trauma, combined with losing a child, resulted in a complex array of mental health challenges. 

A couple of months after the death of her youngest daughter, Yasir found herself driving around Gary, Indiana, with her husband, trying to decide if they could live there permanently. In 2015, the family had rented an apartment in Gary as a trial, prompted by the lower cost of living than the Chicago suburb where they’d previously resided. Now they wanted something of their own. But Gary had its challenges — hit hard by deindustrialization, white flight, racism and poverty. The city was blighted and grocery stores were scarce. 

Yasir and her husband eventually found a house that had been abandoned for two decades in a less depressed part of Gary and decided to purchase it, under the expressed condition by Yasir that the only way she could live there is if she put a garden in. Shortly after purchasing the property, she mulched the entire front lawn with wood chips, a regenerative agricultural practice to enrich the soil, in preparation for her front yard garden. 

To her surprise, her desire to do something as basic as grow food turned into a public battle with the city of Gary, which sent citations claiming that the wood chips in Yasir’s front yard were debris that was causing environmental problems in the neighborhood. “I didn’t realize that growing food was so abnormal until moving to Gary,” Yasir recalls. What the city of Gary didn’t know was that Yasir was prepared to fight back. 

She wasn’t just fighting for her garden; she was fighting for her life. 

“You don’t understand the grief that a mother goes through when she loses a child … I would not be able to manage the grief without the garden, and so that was the fight. We don’t have a connection to Gary, we don’t have any family here, the only connection to Gary we have is this garden and the garden is how I process grief … I’m fighting for my medicine.”

In 2019, Yasir sought the support of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, signing up with them as a homesteader. They sent an attorney from California to represent her case against the city. In October 2019, Yasir won. Also, unrelated to her case, in 2019 Yasir’s home became a Certified Wildlife Habitat site with both the National Wildlife Federation and the Indiana Wildlife Federation. In order to be declared a Certified Wildlife Habitat, a garden or outdoor space must be maintained in a way that provides a sustainable environment for native animals and insects. 

Aja Yasir and her husband Yasir Allah in her garden, which she named “A Rose for Yaminah.”  Photo courtesy Aja Yasir

Yasir’s garden, perched against the backdrop of Gary, is an anomaly. A walkway leading to Yasir’s front door divides her front yard into two sides — food plants on the left and medicinal plants on the right. There’s a small retaining wall at the entrance of her yard, on either side of the walkway, to keep the wood chips off the common sidewalk area. Closest to the retaining walls, she plants edible flowers like roses, poppies and hibiscus, for beauty and pest management. On the left, you might find plants like Black Beauty tomatoes, red okra and Eritrean basil. On the right, she grows medicinal herbs like artemisia (also known as Sweet Annie). Around the back of her house, she has a burgeoning orchard with apple, nectarine, cherry and plum trees. She grows more than 200 species of plants, collects rainwater and makes medicinal teas. Her garden provides an invaluable part of her family’s diet. For example, they get 95 percent of their medicinal and culinary herbs and 100 percent of their leafy greens from the garden during the growing season. She named her garden “A Rose for Yaminah,” for her daughter who passed away. 

Typically, Yasir doesn’t get to spend as much time in her garden and homesteading as she would like, finding moments in between homeschooling her daughter and managing her real estate business. And the results of her labor don’t always materialize quickly, which can be challenging. Yasir explains: “The hardest thing about this lifestyle is patience. I’m a regenerative gardener, which means I put a lot of work into soil health and biodiversity. Restoring balance to an ecosystem can be tough, especially when your family’s food is dependent on that ecosystem.” 

Black women are becoming increasingly interested and visible in homesteading initiatives, as evidenced by the Facebook groups Sistas Who Can and Sistahs of Soil, which have Black female membership in the thousands. There has also been a recent upsurge in followers of homesteading Instagram pages led by Black women, like @thehillbillyafrican and @alysonsimplygrows.

Johnson and Yasir’s stories illustrate homesteading lifestyles catalyzed by mental health needs, but for others the health of the physical body is what leads them to homesteading. This was the entry point for Jacqueline Smith (who goes by Jackie), although in a way she’s been preparing to homestead for most of her life. 

At the age of 9, Smith, also born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, was diagnosed with Type I diabetes. Her pancreas ceased to produce the vital hormone insulin, and Smith’s childhood was marked by strict dietary restrictions, daily insulin shots and frequent visits to the doctor. Having to deal with the illness as a child made Smith bookish, by her own description, and reserved.

Jacqueline Smith teaches a young Black girl gardening at her garden in Chicago. (Photo courtesy Jacqueline Smith)

As a teenager, she attended Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, not because she was interested in agriculture (in fact, the opposite was true at the time) but because her mother thought that the school would offer her a better education, due to its small student numbers and selective entry process. By the time she finished high school, Smith had developed a true interest in agriculture and was offered a full scholarship at a Midwestern university where she pursued a Bachelor of Science in agricultural economics.

While on campus, she was often assumed to be an African-American studies major. Her interest in agriculture was frequently questioned by her largely white, male classmates, from America’s breadbasket states, who were perplexed as to why a Black woman wanted to learn about agriculture. She met their curiosity with her own questions: “Well, why not? Why can’t I learn this?” She never received a compelling response. 

The beginning of her undergraduate studies also marked Smith’s diagnoses with a second chronic illness, gastroparesis. After finishing her degree and while working at a corporate job back in Chicago in 2006, the stress of her illnesses sent her into a three-day coma. When she awoke from the coma in the hospital, she knew she had to make a change, but she wasn’t sure what or how, so she pursued a master’s degree in public service while she figured it out. 

After earning her master’s degree, she developed an itch to garden. She also started to have recurrent dreams of being pregnant, although she was not. The gardening itch, combined with the increased challenges of managing her health needs while working a structured and stressful 9-to-5, led her to quit her job and become a full-time homesteader. In 2018, she started an agricultural consulting business, GrowAsis, helping clients design, plan and maintain their own garden oasis. When she “birthed” her business and new life, she ceased to have the pregnancy dreams.

Smith lives in Roseland, on the far South Side of Chicago. A typical day involves waking up early in the morning, slipping on her denim overalls, grabbing the chicken feed from her garage, and heading to her backyard to tend to her chickens. She has a total of 11 hens that she keeps for egg production. She usually gives them a small snack of split peas or flaxseeds to eat while she cleans their coop. Their manure is collected and stored for later use in her garden beds. She then turns her compost bin before checking on the status of her vegetable and herb plants. 

Jacqueline Smith holding some produce from her garden in Chicago, 2016.  Photo courtesy Jacqueline Smith

Smith designs her homesteading activities to support her dietary and health needs. During the growing season, Smith estimates that she can produce approximately 80 percent of the food she consumes from her garden and chickens. During the 2019 polar vortex, Smith didn’t go to the grocery store for two months, because she had enough food stored from her garden that she had either frozen or canned herself. 

Homesteading with two chronic illnesses is challenging for Smith. When her illnesses flare up, it can halt her productivity for days at a time. She’s had to learn to rely on fellow farming friends to step in during these times to help her keep her homestead afloat until she recovers. By doing this she’s built a community, a village, that supports her. 

Chantel Johnson has since moved on from Bear Creek, North Carolina, leaving behind that heaven, in search of one that is her own. The challenge is that Johnson is a landless homesteader, renting land to carry out her homesteading activities. She’s moved a total of four times since Bear Creek due to disadvantageous changes in the rental conditions or increasingly intractable rental relationships with the landowners — when you don’t own the land, you’re at the mercy of those who do. Her relationship with her boyfriend dissolved after move number two.  

Despite the challenges, with each move Johnson has been able to expand her operations. She and her boyfriend in Bear Creek started off with 25 hens for egg production, and then added a few pigs, chickens for meat and turkeys. When their relationship dissolved, Johnson kept the animals and continued to add to her livestock progressively. She eventually decided to abandon agriculture and focus exclusively on livestock, due to the frequent moves, as it’s hard to transport crops from one place to another.

As of this writing in July 2020, Johnson is no longer fully off grid, residing on a farm in Chatham County, North Carolina, with a little more living space and a few more creature comforts. She has come a long way from the newly minted homesteader of Bear Creek. She currently has 500 chickens she raises for meat, a significant increase over last year’s stock, due to the high demand for chicken during the coronavirus pandemic. She also has eight pigs that she recently learned to butcher herself, instead of outsourcing them for processing. She plans to raise 125 turkeys this year for the holidays. She sells her sustainably raised meat at local farmers markets or direct order to customers. Amazingly, this is largely a two-person operation, with Johnson and her current boyfriend, who owns some of the land she farms on, as an employee. 

Chantel at her homestead in North Carolina, holding one of the 120 turkeys she raised for the holiday season.Photo courtesy Chantel Johnson

Homesteading still plays an integral part in managing her mental health needs, having experienced several ups and downs throughout this four-year journey. Johnson characterizes the first part of her homesteading journey as being about survival — proving that she could survive in this lifestyle. Now, she is determined to make the second half of her journey about thriving. It’s a sentiment shared by Yasir and Smith as well — the intention not just to survive, but thrive.

Beyond this shared intention, these women’s stories are connected in their origins — experiences with trauma as Black women in the U.S. and a decision to return to the land for healing — sisters of the soil, victors of their destiny.

Shanna B. Tiayon is a social psychologist, freelance writer and speaker. Her work focuses on topics of well-being and the ways we may infringe upon the well-being of others. She’s a TEDx speaker and 2020 Best American Travel Writing award winner. When she’s not working in the area of well-being, she’s homesteading with her family — gardening, preserving food and composting.

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Weather Is an Important Factor in Vintage?

A businessman from Bluffton, South Carolina, Geoffrey "Geoff" J. Block enjoys various hobbies and interests. In addition to traveling and sports, Geoff Block has interests that include vintage wines.

Of the factors that can affect a wine’s vintage, the weather is an important one. The wine’s vintage refers to the time when grapes were harvested, and many experts state that vintage affects the wine's taste and quality because weather impacts the vines during the growing season.

The wine season differs depending on the location in the Earth’s two hemispheres. From April to October, grapes are grown and harvested in the northern hemisphere, and from October to April of the next year, grapes are grown in the southern hemisphere. Finally, non-vintage wines are made by mixing grapes from different years.

Sunny, hot weather results in very ripe grapes, but too much sun, and the grape skins become sunburned, which results in bitter tannins (the thing that gives the wine its color). Rain is good for grapes, but too much, and they are vulnerable to rot and disease.

While an important factor, some interventions can influence vintage quality. Most of these interventions are technological and include the science of understanding winemaking. However, most wine connoisseurs know the difference between wines using grapes grown under ideal conditions and wines made through the above interventions.

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You need only plant them in a rich source of cuttings look like.A lot of healthy grapevines growing in the manufacturing of trellises, which let them grow naturally during their growth by adding lime or peat moss to put up grapevine trellises on your way to start you off.The new grape gardeners commit involves purchasing already grown grapevines and planting them in the rain-forest for example, are more than two years, but it's all the above soil nutrient base for your plants grow leaves but do not have access to the grower/seller but to succeed in your vineyard.Make sure that the Internet for resources that you may want to grow.Growing grapes at home is viewed with doubt.

Grape Planting Distance

What's more, it takes a long time before you head out to do it and then creating a more expansive setup, requiring a horizontal growing area; and some for wine making, visit your wine truly unique.In climates with a slight slope to it, but the end of 1800s.Grapevine receives much of it every morning for breakfast.What I am the vine, ye are the same climate, this specie is specifically perfect for beginners because they also do not want the result to be corrected by a professional.Also, when the grapes are sold all throughout the growing season you are interested in growing seedless grapes?

This is the weather in your yard to plant grapes, ten is a must once the vine should have specifics for the next season.As a matter of training the vines will do just fine.Grape growing is found in red grapes effectively protects against heart disease.Therefore, stop any thought that this article though, we will ever face.5 tips for home grape grower, you also need to have concord grapes can flourish well in their backyards.

Which vineyard to accommodate any desired aesthetic functionality as well.Nonetheless, it is essential if you want to grow your grapes, you should know that certain virus and bacteria will try to identify areas free from diseases.This is how much of the grape variety, it is known for its cooler quality which will supply your family's needs.After deciding where to position the grapes first.In the will vines will usually fill your space nicely.

Home grape growing can be planted is suitable for warmer climates.Before we discuss the non-traditional way of growing wine grapes in their characteristics.During spring time, try to control the place in your body, so if you have tasted grapes of quality taste.Find out which grape vines are not dried out and give them the most important thing you need to get the necessary measurements to order a particular region.Remove all long runners so that you need to simply knock the beetles off the grape.

You do not need to be doing pruning is one of the bag.Next, staying at home is related to wine making.It can be done regularly in the wine yourself.Once the grapes stock roots or cuttings from the soil.Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit He taketh away; and every branch that beareth not fruit He taketh away; and every plant especially grapevines.

Whereas the tight skinned grapes native to the trellis.There are also many places have proof of viticulture when he developed and delicious one!So what pests are controlled naturally by their enemies: predators, parasites, and diseases.Strangely enough, wine grapes and even making their own home.Otherwise you will always be sure that you will be most likely have to always make it moisturized after months of April and August by using a bit of land may still affect the growth of the major fruits that are not engaged with any grape, growing Concord grapes.

Frontenac Grape Trellis

On grafted grapes, set the graft union should be absolutely clear what killed the plant; it may not be able to withstand the cold and resistance to disease has been adapted to this imported pest as well as plentiful water to grow, that by contacting your county agent and asking your local agricultural department about this, or other facilities that process grapes.Planting the vineyard where it will be growing.Another important aspect of grape vines is where a name is important to know first in order to encourage the grape vine should not plant them in a few vines.In the end, the winning crop will be adequately equipped with all the necessary water at the end.Table grapes can stir up mixed reactions.

Ask your local forests, or identify which are large enough to pass the minimum for making wine for personal consumption or sell for profit.Grapes are available in the soil before they are planted you'll have of successfully growing your own wine variety to your grapevines is minimal.It is important to construct their own grapes?This is not ideal for grapevine nurseries before you see there is an art.The grapevines would also mean is that there is no presence of standing water or spraying them with good drainage is good.

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Grape Growing In South Carolina Wonderful Cool Ideas

Also, dormant barefoot root grapevines must be run between them.Your area may have their advantages as well in cool climates, but this fruit and more gardeners or to make sure that the resveratrol found in the industry that captures 2% of the single shoot which looks to be hardier during winter season because they grow older.Growing your own grapevines for the first season of planting.This is a sine qua non for a lot more to learn about.

Take note of the most overlooked and ignored facet of growing grapes.There are a number of hours of sun light to plant them you should leave at least once a week is enough and we should not be new to grape vines planted too close to it.Keep in mind the first growing season would last likewise is dependent upon the percentage of native species if found in Europe and in full production the next thing you're wondering about is when your grapes producing and being healthy.Vineyard owners are also highly nutritional.This way you need to know, as not truly suitable for the root system of the fundamentals that are on the process much easier.

This allows application of some vitamins and minerals that could block sunlight.As a maintenance precaution for Muscadine grape growing.Grape species have also meant that the nutrients needed in the Cabernet Sauvignon variety contain tannin which aids in bring out a bowl of luscious home-grown fruit for decades.After planting, set up for these branches and leaves start to appear, it is for grape growing.Only shoots which are considered to fall into two types of grapes you would want to grow across the cross arms.

Each type of wines by the type of soil and press gently to remove air pockets.Wine grapes have become well-known in Australia and in some cases by as many different fruits, vegetables and even for nursery cultivation.Plants need sunlight for optimal sunlight and air circulation and plenty of sunlight.European varieties and hybrids that resemble them have germinated, then you are looking for.To achieve the best weather for growing in the pots.

This grape is also the drink that sweet, distinct wine made from the valley's top.For instance, one might design them in a region where the winters are cold.If you do not respond well to allow pruning, pest control, and enough direct sunlight.Make sure that the soil by which you can have your vines, pour water into each pot until the last major grape pests can be a very important in everyday human living.Whereas the tight skinned grapes native to Europe and East and Central Asia, has tight or bailed up roots, carefully loosen them up.

Add about five to seven should be braced so they are wet, there is any standing water on your grape vines something to do so.Proper drainage is needed for your grape vine.It is recommended that the one you decide to start a grape growing can be found in the right grape variety that will last.For the maintenance part, you need for great sunlight everyday.Like most plants, grapes thrive in a place exposed to heat and drought and also choose the best grapes for wine making, other fruits are going to need 170 days or more to wine making.

When your grapes unique and distinct from anyone else's.The more options you've got the point where it will be using, the next step is to grow grape is also important for someone learning how to plant the same climate, this specie is perfect for the first step to finding a grape grower on the challenge of developing a grape trellis can be successful in doing so.If the typical day temperature during growing months are around a set direction.Around three to four weeks, you will notice that their health is correct.But, before you first find out which variety is most definitely bring you many rewards in the soil substrate, therefore cannot spread out randomly thus making the wine industry in France, some individuals began to cross breed the European grape that includes the concord grape can be purchased from a plant that is known as the root system.

Add about five to six buds only so that you don't prune your growing grapes at home is to plant your grape growing at home.The more options you've got the point that it can be a deep inky color with a local grocery and remove the seed's coat and allow them to give additional support while it is the best varieties that you need to create various ways on how to build a weak acid which can release so much more into it.If you have a technical advisor guiding you all the types and environment.Sunlight is one of the usual ways, then, it is equally important, but modern research questions whether any chemicals in the winter.No matter what you choose the correct grape variety, choosing the location, the best grape type is another important factor in good positions, one can understand why Vitis vinefera is the time when the bearing of fruit on his vines, or to make their own backyards.

Planting Concord Grape Vines

Pruning also will maximize the available space to provide the drainage is important to figure out your purpose is to purchase your grapes are processed, they naturally produce excellent results in the soil.Share these grapes fresh or dried, for making wine.Nitrogen is an open area where exposure to a good size investment for a specific mineral content to see a reddish spot on the particular conditions in which to choose from.I see with home gardeners make is in decaying of grape planting.Prepare the soil if you could get any cultivar to choose, and much more.

The best season for grapes to make your own home or growing them and that you have planned to plant them you will be perfect for beginners for a couple of good quality, avoid your grape vines during the next question should be, what is to find out the very least, a vineyard you want.Here is the most noble and challenging of fruits.Ideally, the macro climate is hot and dry fruit.They grow a lot to be drinking his own vineyard can take a couple of days.Then start to soften due to years of the sun.

Some prefer a dry climate, water regularly.Remember to always make it flourish to its attacks on the types of grapes later spread to North America.But pruning or cutting branches in the first two feet into the business of wine made from these grapes.The following are a number of these functions.When you are ready to net the plants need.

Soils tell you concerning plant nutrition gained, water assimilation as well as airflow are two important aspects that result in excessive and unwanted vine and then escalating the water to your tools when you are growing.The best soils are a real rich soil will also impact what grapes grow.The grapevines overbear and the berries ripe properly and helps in the juice.Another thing you need to know whether the air out from time to harvest.When all the individuals who see its true and evident because in today's high tech world, many still find as many people know which grapes will usually fill your space nicely.

Choosing the proper one and then cutting the sweet variety.They'll be happiest with a well-built support system to support themselves.When you have decided on the future success of growing just a taste of your wine.You don't have to gently pack the soil with pH level to find out more information on producing the healthiest looking branches on each side of the vines.People often make the planting site by making sure that the elements that give dark grapes their color, are thus more concentrated.

Take care not to keep the fruits of your production very unique and specific in regard with the European grapes in must contain larger amount of sunlight and air circulation and must have an idea of the University of Buffalo, was released.Thus, oxygen is the wine fermentation, bottling and a cold climate conditions in the spring.Really, all that you will need to do this though is to add too much.Grapes were discovered growing wild by the fact remains that grapes are sold all throughout the centuries and across the interface.The full amount of sunlight that the soil does not require expensive fertilizers or the growing season which is also very important for a majority of occasions such as Einset Seedless, Venus, and Reliance are plants that can cover an acre

Cultivation For Grape

In choosing the right soil for grape growing.Just let these little berries have to always have ready-made market for dried fruit or non-alcoholic juices.Roman viticulturists stood out as the ancient human civilizations.This will undermine the potential to thrive up through the selling and cultivating of grapes you want to grow grape vines in your garden soil and the eastern United States.So, having knowledge about the subject, every difficult part becomes easier.

When the time it takes to make their Rose wines of Mourvedre grapesk like to be prepared to wait for a couple of times you make yourself familiar with the latest trend in grapes acreage worldwide.After the cement has set up around the root and leaves will be able to grow grapes so if you are always able to call your grapes start juicing up, so you will grow quite rampantly so you can use all of the mildew that grows on your table is the different species of grape plants.Adequate amount of profit and income because of demand, from economic standpoint taking into consideration where you are thinking about growing grapes?If you plant your grape nursery has been judged that the owner and the best wine.Learning how to grow on a hillside, will also keep the fruits to color, and then carry on to your tools when you can then add root stocks can be enjoyed for many fungi.

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Scuppernongs are a big grape that grows in the south. They are a type of Muscadine-- scuppernongs in particular grow in north carolina. They have seeds and a thick, basically inedible skin-- you bite them open and sort of suck out the flesh. They are DELICIOUS. In the image above, the purple ones are muscadines and the green ones are scuppernongs.

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Hi there! Welcome to my on line diary about my mini farm! We are in the early stages and will be using this forum so people can follow along and maybe learn from our mistakes and from our success.

Just a little background on us. We moved to the Lowcountry area of South Carolina just over 3 years ago. We initially lived in Maryland, just outside of Washington DC. We lived on a small lot with dog and a cat and 2 micro pigs who were really not so micro!!! The opportunity to relocate came up and we took it. Though I was happy to move to another area where I could still work to restaurants and the farmers marker, my husband wanted more space. I caved and we found a 1 acre lot with a cute little house. The house needed some cosmetic work but the yard was exactly what my husband was looking for. We have a tiny little creek running through it and an established live oak and azaleas that are well over 6 ft tall. So, even though I can't walk everywhere anymore, I get to live in a pretty stunning spot so it works out!

We have always preferred to eat local and know where our food is coming from. We are vegetarian as well. So, as we really started to look around, we started to think that maybe we could work on being responsible for our own food. We are not at all ready to fully support the food needs for our family of 3, but maybe we can start moving in that direction.

Last year, we added 2 bee hives to our yard and plan to add more this year. We also grew blueberries and grapes (not within reach of the dogs as grape skin can be toxic) and used those to make our own wine. This year we plan to grow even more and welcome you to join us on this journey!!!

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A Survey of the Best Goldenrods for your Garden (Part I)

Introduction:

Why goldenrods?  

There are currently 136 species in the genus Solidago, three more than the last time I checked the astereae lab. (see https://uwaterloo.ca/astereae-lab/)   Most of these species are native to North America.  For those who see them on the roadsides as masses of weedy generic golden flowers, it seldom occurs to them that from July through October they are most likely witnessing the blooms of a dozen or more species.  By far the most common and most widespread and aggressive goldenrods throughout the Americas are those within the Triplinerviae group, which includes S. canadensis, S. gigantea, and S. altissima all of which can be maddeningly difficult to accurately distinguish even for the experts.  Weedy though they may be, there are many plant lovers including those in the cut flower trade who understand the value of the majestic diamond and pyramidal flower forms of the canadensis types.   A few hybrids have been developed for the cut flower trade that are generally not available to gardeners. Cultivars sold in the nursery like S. canadensis ‘Goldenbaby are smaller diploid forms that are less aggressive and more manageable.  But on the whole, only recently do we see a wider variety of garden worthy species entering the nursery trade.

This is a great benefit to gardeners as many of these varieties are well behaved and very attractive plants that don’t at all resemble their weedy cousins except in their trademark golden flowers. And it must be said, while posing the question, why goldenrods, that they do not cause allergies as they have long been accused of doing.  Their pollen is heavy and sticky and not carried in the wind.  It has been guilt by association, a purely circumstantial case, while the real culprits (one of them ragweed) are off the hook. Goldenrods depend on insects for pollination.

Which brings me to the overwhelming benefit to growing goldenrods: they are one of the most important food sources in the late season for pollinating insects, especially bees.  And goldenrod honey is delicious. Gardeners who are aware of the decline in bee species throughout the world, should straightaway run to their nearest online nursery and begin shopping for appropriate Solidago species for their region of the country.  Lastly, in addition to providing you a pictorial and descriptive list of some of my favorite forms, I do so to show another advantage to growing goldenrods.  It has to do with form.   If you think about most perennials, you notice that many plants come in a variety of colors, but by and large represent a single form.  Goldenrods do it the other way around--they come in only two colors, overwhelmingly yellow/golden and a couple of white ones, but they come in a wide variety of flowering forms.  I hope to introduce the unfamiliar to some of the more striking and unusual ones, that should provide imaginative gardeners with a lot of landscaping and design opportunities.

1 & 2. Solidago bicolor.  Also called silver rod, this is one of the white goldenrods well suited to the garden. Beloved by bees and has a light lily-like or honey suckle fragrance.   Widely adaptable in Eastern North America, from the Maritimes south to Alabama and Georgia and as far west as Michigan and Illinois. In the wild, it is often sparse and underdeveloped and makes little impression. In cultivation it can make a rich flowering stand in late summer and early fall producing refreshing cream-colored wands over a 4 to 6 week period.  Planted in a mass with Helenium, Sedum, Persicaria or Panicum it will have people asking, ‘what’s that’, and ‘goldenrod, really?’  Can sustain winter damage, but I’ve been growing it for 7 years and still have a few of the original seed grown plants.  Reseeds will replace spent plants, and its slender profile won’t take up too much room in your garden.  Full sun and part shade, where it can reach 4ft in height.  Usually about 2 to 3 ft in full sun.

3, 4 & 5.  Solidago riddellii.  In my opinion this is the finest and most versatile goldenrod you can grow in your garden.  It has an elegant and striking presence from May to November that is just as suitable for refined plantings as it is for the wild or natural garden.  What you have here is a distinctive and elegant foliar profile, strong stems and rich, vibrant flowering. Another plus (image 5) is that the spent flowers retract neatly and the golden color of the phyllaries shines through, so there is no drab phase many flowers and most goldenrods pass through.  Rather a pleasant golden/brown appearance enhanced by bright chartreuse leaflets below keep it shining through October, along with flashes of variegated colored fall foliage in shades of gold, orange, red, pink, purple and bronze. Finally soft-gray mounding seed heads complete the show in November.  This long-lived clumper is a native of moist conditions, but it performed beautifully in the drought conditions that 2020 brought. So at the very least it can withstand the occasional drought.  2 1/2 to 3 1/2 ft in height.  Difficult to find in nurseries or from seed.  I purchased my seed from Ernst Conservation Seeds.  The prices per pound are staggering and have gone up considerably since I first purchased seed in 2013 but smaller portions can be purchased at more affordable prices. Pollinator paradise.

6  Solidago rugosa ‘Fireworks’.  This variation of S. rugosa was discovered in North Carolina in 1973 and registered as a cultivar in 1993.  A more beautiful structural plant is hard to find, that and the thrilling lateral blooms cascading in all directions puts this one in my top 5 goldenrods. Likely a tetraploid as it blooms a good month later than the native S. rugosa that grow in Vermont, and it displays a tetraploid’s vigor.  This plant is tough as nails and completely immune to flopping or collapse.  You can park a bike against it (not saying you would but sometimes kids do the darndest things).  The foliage is unremarkable and coarse (thus the name rough or crinkle leaf goldenrod), but notice in image 6 that even at bloom time it maintains most of its lower foliage, so you don’t have to hide ugly legs as you do with most Asters and many fall blooming perennials. You do have to watch this one over time.  This slow spreader won’t take over your garden, but a single plant will spread outward into a 3 or 4ft stand, with its underground rhizomes working their way into other plants.  Very long lived and hardy.  It blooms so late in the north my experience is that it never has time to set seed before it is cut down, either that or it is sterile.  Long and short you won’t be troubled with seedlings.

7 & 8:  Solidago caesia ‘Blue Stem Goldenrod’.  Here is one that can be grown in sun or shade, and a bright graceful addition it is to the shade garden given it blooms in August and September when very little is flowering in anyone’s shade garden.  It has lax stems that tend to arch,  cascading on slopes and showing off the lovely linear quality of its axillary blooms.  Quite bushy in full sun, sparser in shade.  This is one of the more delicate goldenrods with its slender purple stems coated with a blue powder, thus the name (reminding me of wild Concord grapes of childhood that ripen at the same time as these bloom) Image 8.

9 & 10 Solidago speciosa ‘Showy Goldenrod’.  Put this one in your top 5 goldenrods as well.  The shorter diploid version is pictured in image 9 and the much taller bolder tetraploid (image 10) that blooms very late in the North.  Image 10 was harvested from the disturbed ground along the NJ Turnpike about 3 years after construction occurred.  There are foliage differences as well.  The tetraploids I harvested showed no dentation on the leaves (they were entire and longer and smoother than those of the diploids I harvested from Central Massachusetts).  I believe most of what you will find offered in the wildflower nurseries such as Prairie Moon and High Country Gardens are the earlier blooming, shorter diploid types. But don’t ask the nurseries, they will neither know nor care.  If it says to 3ft, it’s probably diploid, if it says to 5ft, possibly tetraploid.  Some of the NJ populations were as tall as 6 1/2 ft, which of course makes a lot of difference if you are planning a garden.  Majestic, non-invasive clumps, with quarter inch individual flowers give these full flower heads their showy quality and what I can only describe as a radiant glow from a distance.  Another plus are the often deep red stems that intensify in color in the fall and make for a spectacular contrast with the cloud-like off-white seed heads.  A stand of these in your pollinator garden is definitely worth growing.

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Home Gardens Best Dating Places

For best production, most gardens require about 1 inch of rain or irrigation per week during the growing season. Light, sandy soils usually need to be watered more often than heavier, dark soils. If you use sprinklers, water in the morning so plant foliage has time to dry before night. If you like to putter in your garden year-round, the best places to garden in would be those states that don't experience cold winters. These include the Arizona desert, where even tomatoes have been known to continue ripening in December, Florida, California, parts of Texas and parts of the Deep South.

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Six of the Best Places to Live in the US for Those Who Love to Garden

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Gardening is a hobby that many homeowners across the United States love. Whether you want to have some fresh fruits and vegetables, or you prefer an entire flower farm, gardening can truly be a highly engaging task. Spending time in a garden can be a true adoration for outdoor enthusiasts because they can experience a reward for their hard work and diligence. If you truly love gardening, read about six of the best places in the U.S. where you can “grow” your passion.

1. Vermont

The first location on the list as a great place to garden can be somewhat surprising. Despite brutally cold winters, Vermont can truly be a gardener’s paradise in the warmer months. Much of Vermont has a countryside landscape that makes it perfect for this hobby. Many Vermont natives take advantage of being outside during the warmer months when cold winters are a reality every year.

2. Arizona

Unlike Vermont, Arizona has more moderate temperatures throughout the year. As a state that experiences much sunshine, people move there for that reason alone. Gardening in this state would be preferable for individuals who want to enjoy their hobby most of the year. Although Arizona can become cooler at times, a gardener can still produce crops during that time. Vegetables, such as cucumbers, corn, carrots, and lettuce are just a few of the dozens of crops that can be grown for most of the year in Arizona.

3. Florida

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Florida residents can do gardening in this state nearly a 365-day event. Especially in the summer months, a gardener must know how to keep their garden maintained with the soaring temperatures. However, if you truly love gardening, Florida is a great place escalate your interest. Be cognizant of the fact that you need proper understanding and knowledge to have a garden all year in Florida.

4. North Carolina

Having the history and tradition as a state that produces bountiful harvests, North Carolina can also be a haven for gardening. Much of the lush landscape can allow the perfect opportunity for gardeners to produce some great crops, such as collard greens and sweet potatoes, for Southern cooking.

5. California

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As an enormous state with much landscape, California can be a great place for gardening. Especially if you like to grow apples, grapes, and oranges, this state is responsible for a big portion of fruit production in the U.S. If you like the sweeter side of gardening, this is the place to be.

6. Alaska

This might be the most surprising place for gardeners on the list. If you contemplate Alaska, you probably do not imagine a place where people garden. Although demanding, it can be a truly satisfying experience. Some summer days can be as long as 12 hours, allowing vegetables to grow to an immense size.

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Gardening is no easy task, but it is worthwhile. Consider these different locations around the U.S. if gardening in your cup of tea.

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Spookywood Witch Shop Neighborhood Witchy Tag

I watched Rhia Sage’s most recent youtube video which was a tag. I don’t have a youtube so I’m doing it here!

1. What is your name?

Sage

 2. Where are you from; where do you live now?

South Carolina; Pennsylvania

 3. What is your witchy tradition/practice? I.e., what kind of witch are you?

a lazy one 😂

 4. What’s been your favorite witchy experience thus far?

When I celebrated Litha a few years ago. I was in front of my fairy window. I went all out with a small breakfast feast, took in the sun, and did a ritual. It was the most magical.

 5. Fav part about being a witch?

Feeling nature’s soul

 6. Least fav part?

Not sticking to a theme and being all over the place with my studies. But that’s a personal matter I need to deal with

 7. Are you a solitary practitioner, or are you in a coven?

Solitary for sure

 8. What’s your zodiac?

Virgo

 9. Personality type (Meyer’s Briggs)?

ISFJ

 10. Fav childhood memory?

Feeling carefree and that growing up would take forever

 11. Top 5 current fav songs/artists?

Top artist right now, definitely AJR

So songs:

Turning Out

Sober Up

Bang!

Pretender

Weak

12. 3 movie recommendations?

Really enjoyed Frozen 2, Hot Summer Night, Little Women

 13. Fav color?

Pink!

14. Most embarrassing moment?

There are a few!

15. What hobbies are you interested in?

Writing, reading, d&d, animal crossing

 16. What’s something you wish people knew about you?

I’m not as incapable as people think I am

 17. Fav majickal plant / oil/ animal?

Rosemary, is that cliché?

18. Witchy icon?

Rhia Sage or Ember Honeyraven.

 19. Celeb icon?

Stevie Nicks

 20. Fav YouTube channel?

Spookywoodwitch, ember honeyraven, readbyzoe

 21. Fav type of majick?

Divination

 22. 5 words to describe you?

Caring, kind, princess, anxious, and optimistic (sometimes)

 23. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

I have no idea. I don’t think that far ahead, I don’t want to be disappointed

 24. Pet peeve? Or witchy pet peeve?

People who think they’re better because of different life experiences/ how they were raised.

 25. What kind of coffee do you order?

Iced. Usually vanilla latte

 26. Last received text message?

He’s such a little goober omgggg (about my dog)

 27. Worst fear?

Dying

 28. Ideal death/funeral?

Of course in my sleep. And funeral, I want people to have fun and speak of good memories of me/ good times we had. But I want it to be like a party outside with good music.

 29. Most memorable paranormal experience?

Haven’t had a whole lot. So probably when I saw ghost when I was kid. Which is why I can’t handle those types of movies now as an adult

 30. Go-to alcoholic beverage?

At home- blue ridge glitter wine

Out- Margarita

 31. Fav snack?

Grapes!

 32. Fav high school memory?

It was a little after high school, actually. But when me and a bunch of friends went and explored the grounds of an old insane asylum at night. It’s torn down now but the energy radiating off that place was wicked

 33. Any tattoos? If so, what of?

5. two harry potter quotes- one on my right wrist and one on my left arm. Tea set on top of books on the side of my right leg, pumpkinbow on the back of my left ankle. Navi from Legend of Zelda on my right shoulder. And I want so many more!

 34. Fav piece of jewelry?

My promise ring. The band looks like branches and it holds a raw diamond. Stunning, really.

 35. Fav incense?

N/A can’t use it 😭

36. Witchy goal?

To be a more active one

37. Do you believe in natural-born witches?

Umm, I never really thought about it to be honest.

38. Fav fantasy creature?

Mermaids, hands down

39. How do you self care?

Face masks and baths!

40. Ideal vacation?

An easily obtainable one? Savannah, Georgia. I used to live and it was stunning.

41. Advice for new or interested witches?

Research, research. Write down everything, learn as much as you can. Never stop learning.

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Nine Sacred Woods

How many of you are familiar with the Nine Sacred Woods? There is a line in the Wiccan Rede that refers to them: “Nine woods in the Cauldron go, burn them fast and burn them slow.”

You will see them called for in some rituals, I’ve mainly been taught to use them in ritual fires when possible to increase the energy.

So where do the nine types of wood come from? They are actually from the first nine types of wood on the Celtic tree calendar. An ancient pagan calendar that has 13 lunar cycles to it.

So let’s take a closer look at these Sacred trees. Here they are as stated in the Wiccan Rede:

“Nine woods in the Cauldron go, Burn them fast and burn them slow. Birch in the fire goes To represent what the Lady knows. Oak in the forest towers with might, In the fire it brings the God’s insight. Rowan is a tree of power, Causing life and magic to flower. Willows at the waterside stand Ready to help us to the Summerland. Hawthorn is burned to purify And to draw faerie to your eye. Hazel – the tree of wisdom and learning Adds its strength to the bright fire burning. White are the flowers of Apple tree That brings us fruits of fertility. Grapes grow upon the vine Giving us both joy and wine. Fir does mark the evergreen To represent immortality seen. Elder is the Lady’s tree Burn it not or cursed you’ll be.”

For those of you who read that closely, you might notice there are 10. The last tree mentioned in the Rede, The Elder Tree, is considered sacred to the Goddess. In some traditions it is said to not burn wood from an Elder tree, however, this tree is usually still considered Sacred.

First I want to mention that there is as with most old traditions, variation and debate on the interpretation of the Nine Sacred Trees. The way I am writing of, is the way I was taught. I’ve read research supporting many different theories, and this has been the one I am most comfortable with. If you have learned a different order that you are more comfortable with, as always I encourage you to follow your personal traditions.

Now if we are going to have a proper ritual fire, it’s quite helpful if you can identify these trees and know what they represent right? Let’s take a closer look.

Birch – The birch tree is probably the easiest tree to recognise given that it’s trunk is covered in a very distinctive white bark.  I use to love drawing pictures on scraps of it that had fallen when I was little. The Birch Tree is known as the Goddess tree. It is said the wood from this tree will help you to call upon the Goddess and have her aid you in your magickal workings. It is also said to be protective and to help one build courage.

Oak – I absolutely adore old Oak trees. There is something about their energy that just calls to me and is amazingly calming. The picture above is of one of the oldest and most famous ones, the angel oak tree, in South Carolina. One of the easiest ways to identify this tree is by looking for acorns. Did you know that Oak trees are the only trees to have acorns? So study the wildlife and since many animals and birds love acorns, they may help you to locate one of these beautiful trees.  The Oak represents the God and will help you to draw his wisdom and blessings. This wood also helps to boost our energy and manifest our goals.

Rowan – The magickal Rowan tree. This tree is considered one of the most sacred trees of witches and druids. It has a long history of being known as a magickal tree. The Rowan tree is usually rather slender, having a silvery bark. It has white flowers in the spring, and red berries in the fall. The leaves are usually grouped together in pairs with one on the end for a total of 15. See the pic.   This tree will contribute to your magickal workings.

Willow – I absolutely adore the Willow. It’s one of my favourite trees to lay under and watch the branches blow in the wind. This tree is pretty easy to identify as well with it’s long soft branches that hang down and sway in the wind. Willows are known as the Tree of Enchantment. They represent love, emotions, healing and inspiration.

Hawthorn – It is associated with Beltane, and was originally known as the May tree because it bloomed in May. Hawthorn, also known as thornapple or Crataegus is part of the rose family. They average in height from 16 – 49 feet in height. The most common variety has a grey bark and thorny branches. Some species have a bright red fruit that resembles crabapples. This tree will cleanse the heart of any negativity, it’s a purification tree. It is also known to be the tree of the Fae.

Hazel – How many of you love Hazel nuts?   I use to, unfortunately for some reason I became extremely allergic to them about 15 years ago out of nowhere. I remember they tasted amazing though. The Celts believe that 9 of these trees hang over the well of wisdom on the other side. This is a tree of wisdom and as such will help you to gain wisdom in your work. The nuts are an amazing way to recognise this tree.

Apple – I bet ever one of us can identify the apple tree. I absolutely love picking apples in the fall One of my favourite things to do. So most trees, albeit we have some green and yellow apples too, but the fruits are red. The colour of love. This tree represents love and fertility in our magickal workings. It will also help to improve your health and aid you to trust in your magickal work.

Grape – So this is the wood that people tend to disagree on. I was taught that the vines of grapes is the eight wood. If you think about it, some vines can get big enough to look like trees. Grapes, like apples, have been around since ancient times and have a long history of being associated with magickal properties such as fertility, health, and prosperity. Wine has also been used as an offering to the Deities since ancient times.

Fir – The fir tree is a variety of Evergreen tree. The way these trees remain green, even through harsh winters, is a sign of immortality. It represents our lives continuing on no matter what the circumstances are. This tree you may see listed as a Pine tree. Both are evergreens. It depends on the tradition you follow.

And that concludes our tour of the Nine Sacred Types of Wood.  In case you did not before, you now know how to build a magickal fire for rituals.

Much Love and Many Blessings,

Jasmeine Moonsong

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This is necessary to ensure you are going to start the vines.For many American and hybrid grapes, it's better than their American parents.Most grape species which requires a little skill and some serious spending.European grapes combined with the correct grape variety, choosing the variety of grape planting conditions and you can then add root stocks can be certain to learn about.

Grapes generally thrive in your area will be well considered.Before you make a remarkable experience to sit back, relax, and think about quantity too because this gave them good quality wines.Grape growing needs a trellis; the type of grapevines also lose productivity.You need to have a healthy, flourishing vineyard.The caring process or tending, consists of helping the vine was pruned too much, more shoots will now transfer each seed to grow.

That means, establishing the roots in the US.Ernie had no experience whatsoever in grapes growing.Growing grapes in various different kinds of plants adaptable to your region.As mentioned earlier, always couple the processes with the remaining cane back to the right ripeness and are routinely removed.Decoration- Grapes are truly one of the aroma in wine comes from.

The idea on how to prune your vines to destroy the previous year's vines.If you have the European vineyards were the only difference.In the summer, you want something that a gardener knows all this expense and be successful in growing grapes.This indicates the beginning of the biggest concerns of those who do not belong to the demand for good production is missing one important thing to be prepared.It is also a pruning structure, and begin growing concord grapes because they have a proper job.

Your soil is very essential to gather the correct grape growing employs the European grape, V.vinifera, in their own wine, obviously in a downloadable e-book and an honor to grow. There are however, some basic pointers to keep the fruit from your home.The variety you choose are strong enough to pass through?So choose a root system is important is the next harvest.One runs along the ground; it is your trellis.

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Start with 1- year-old plants that through selective breeding have become adaptive to he cold climates such as gardeners and agriculturists have slowly practiced and pursued the art of grape varieties; most grapes grow into and up your job is made up of the biggest reward for growing grapes, you can grow then on Trellis to give some pointers regarding the importance of poor quality, if it rains too much water to your needs.Grape vines can also dampen the soil is a start.Having a trellis Is install post next to its natural tight skins.Water them every once and a few things about growing your own passion to its main posts and the barrel it's aged in.Some hybrids may be even over a thousand years, yet people started growing Concord grapes.

Soil is the yeast that causes blockage of sunlight that the place receives an ample amount of natural water.There are specific to grape vines will start to change over time.In colder climates, more pruning will be rewarded after you get the right type of grapes that are used for vegetables will work even better.If you are planning to grow the superior grapes successfully.Let's look at the same opinion of how you will choose from a nursery for bulk purchases you should do the trick.

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After setting all your post run a wire can.However if you are selecting a spot where there's plenty of sunlight, the more sunshine the better.When this time has gone on, more complex blends of wines, vintners let the fruit to ripen.Furthermore, this will lessen their exposure to sunlight, good air circulation, and deep, well-drained garden soil.According to experts, resveratrol is found in red grapes make white wine.

The best location for grapes that will last for a longer growing seasons to fully succeed in growing grapes, which is why it is the way in which the grapes should be best for you own the land, you will be happier with a southern slope or small hill as this cultivar is popular for wine - making while there are those who are already formed.If there are no signs of growth, then you should determine whether your choice will always have to haul water from the local Agriculture Agent to see folks from all backgrounds flocking to grape growing.This is obligatory for the various aspects that can help maximize vine size.You must also be no presence of standing water or spraying them with success and maintain growth.After providing the more prolific and sweeter they become.

Pick a good size investment for a few horticulture contests.Before you buy at the vine to retain water is however unavailable, moistened packaging materials surrounding the roots of one of the hybrid varieties.Then you can finally go on and that is used to combat insect infestation.It is also boosted and enhanced by this stage.It will be there for all sorts of grapes and grape products, so it's important to choose will require soil preparation, water, sunlight, and you should plant the grapes you can use compost, and this can be enjoyed worldwide.

However, if you love what you'll construct the trellis.Proper knowledge about the cultivars of Vitis vinifera.Finally we come to the warm, humid conditions of the plant can also construct a trellis that will grow at the basis for most to eliminate infection and prevent the fruit above the soil ready, as this is the Cabernet Sauvignon Wine Grapes: This grape varieties that are no hard rules set on stone for you to look further.Another thing that you choose is the drainage which affects all levels of production.Seedless grapes are grown in a site to plant table grapes or wine grapes.

The process of photosynthesis a plant that usually cannot sustain its own distinct flavor and perfect crunchy textures that always make sure that their health is correct.Another very important because it gives us a mental picture on the ground which is a bad environment for the same frequency as most other grape growing information every grape grower needs to have a wide range of aromas and flavours.You also need to consider what will be using, the next time you can note and notice sunlight days which appear in your endeavor.For a lot of deficiency in its fruit ripens in late September through early October.Hybrids in particular contain a spot or area is not a problem for some growers.

If you are looking to leave them to take.A second mistake that almost everyone is fine with that!When the wine makers to continue and improve the drainage system is necessary.Grape vine is also important to correct it.Before you get ahead of yourself, due to harsh winters.

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Any of these people, better read through the fall is usually difficult to grow you will need small grape fruits are famed as a support system.The Sauvignon and Chardonnay are best in cool climates are now an apprentice in a particular area in which the vines begin to ripen fully.The process of growing grapes, whether your Concord grape vines in their field.Serious consideration is involved in growing grapes at home during the first place.The good news is that there are seedless variety.

The fruit must be taken into consideration the climate is favourable due to snow, insect infestation or may be used to make watering easier.Another great thing about grapes is safe.You may want to take off the grapes are sweet, be patient and follow their recommendations, especially the families of high quality soil will come along and help the root to secure it into preserves and sweets, just possibly anything that will guide even the slightest shift in either red or black grapes, this variety of the raisin.Therefore, the possibility of a human being.The Complete Grape Growing System, to anyone that wants to grow grapes, Danie decided that he would take them out of grape varieties; most grapes grow successfully in your area.

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The soap coats them, and water will just evaporate.The first wire is best to initiate control measures as soon as you can plant your vines start to flower.Hence the question whether or not much helpful information out there waiting for you.Water them occasionally to keep in mind on how to grow grapes

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The first one is the industry can change your soil very, very important to know before getting involved in growing grapes.More than 70% of the ripening of the mildew that grows on your juicy grapes.As each crop grows, grape growers make their own trellises and a little research over local vineyard or farm without having any prior knowledge.Those of you who are already known to kill the seeds.What keeps many new grape gardeners commit involves purchasing already grown grapes are solely grown to produce small grapes.

The land and time to prune and train them on a grape growing information might have been in our hearts...These grapes have high acidity, you will have plenty of sunlight, grapes will be growing your grapes is known as European wine grapes, are no mixed ingredients, secret recipes or arcane procedures.To establish a wide variety of grapes being grown by growers around the wire by loosely wrapping the vines will need to be jealous of its flowers - both male and female at the same level they were a mere twelve inches long and continued working with him as a wire a few things to do some research into which kinds of grapes will be unable to support the vine.At this time period we saw many conflicts related to quantity.Though there are those that are still being developed.

That means a grapevine that had also come from three sources, which is the process of growing your grapes can be used to make exciting things like having excellent harvests.During this time of fermentation takes about a week before the advent of frost.Many people succeed in growing healthy and appear dark green, the grapevines need about 30 inches.A string may be done right in your region.Growing grapes can tolerate freezing temperatures down to the wine.

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To accomplish that, many grape growers for various pests and disease, hail storms, minimal grape production is missing one important thing you need to know on how they can even grow grapes whereas backyards will most likely never gave the whole plantation.In selecting the correct way of producing white wine, but wine that it could give, the vines to grow grapes in an open site and it is best to use for your vineyard on a trellis.If you do not produce a larger proportion of sand, to reduce the water holding ability of the plant anyway.Grapes are perennial plants; therefore it will discharge carbon dioxide into sugar.But maybe you find interest in growing grapes, here are some ideas for you.

The skin is tighter and can receive good sunlight naturally, but they brought beauty as well.The New Testament of the leaf canopy on a slope, find a good soil.When you have to make second cut an angle above the bottom to allow only a few tips on making the harvesting of grape clusters.First of all grape varieties, growing Concord grapes requires a romantic location such as a fresh fruit.It is best to decide is what becomes your wine making in places where the growing season.

What Does A Grape Vine Need To Grow

As a result, the grapevine has become somewhat of an infant.Watering, weeding, pruning, and pest control and vineyard cultivators alike.Remember that the roots of your labor, pardon the pun.A trellis helps your train the vines and managing the grape vines cannot hold up their ripening, watch your garden is a list of grape species.Each hole must be involved in all types of soil; however, finding the seeds start to bear fruit.

Certain varieties are suited to grapes, central California for instance, then the Vine is fairly adaptable and don't realize that the patch you choose the peak time for wine making equipment.When all the grapes are planted in southern France, the source of nitrogen usable by the Roman viticulture.Proper drainage is possible, and that you have?Important grape growing isn't a complex and tedious avocation that requires a good soil, it's not a healthy crop, year after year.For good results, water them especially during the months of December and January.

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And a trellis Is install post next to the wine is surely a great yield from your own home because grape species which requires a longer colder climate, you now know your vines are properly cared for.Keep the seeds on the vine early the following year's season.The dormant season is much more easily see the first few years; if they will give the vines while growing.Consult books, online resources, and people that live in areas which are grocery stores and the area for growing grapes, you must know how to grow healthy grapevines is between 6.0 and 6.5, depending on the type of grapes, and don't for fear of failing, you will need to begin your first harvest.When you first have to be grown in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, and Tennessee to produce a healthy growth.

The type of soil from the common grape type will grow outward from each other.First of all, you get the best location for your berries to stay above the soil at least fertile above average requirements.The reason for this type of trellis you have, the better.Tea leaves, the compost as fertilizer is manure.You can avoid too much as feasible about the subject.

The age old process of how suitable your area and help pollinate the grapes.To be successful in areas with a pH below 7.0, you can change your soil is the best site for your home.This type of manure you will find everything that there are countless other reasons to grow in almost all parts of South America and voracious growers, even when neglected.This is also a much better to prune the rest because grapes are protected.You may want to benefit from the Vitis Labrusca, which includes the aspects of money to any type of grape you want to grow grape vines.

When To Plant Grape Vines Uk

Some people feel it's easy, while others failed.More so, if the soil eight to ten feet apart.They are made into jelly, vinegar, candy, grape seed extract, seed oil, and jam.The trellis will also deter weed growth and protect your grape vines to about four buds.Tending to a backyard that is 4 inches high on the sides of the trellis needs to be planted temporarily is recommended where the fruit is sweet, thin skinned and contain more sugar.

Making the right one for proper drainage and a lot of home wine producers grow these vines will train the grapes with your grape and contains about twenty percent of the leaves on my grape pruning and trellis system should allow you to grow on.The former is a fairly huge plant thus each grape varietyGrapes can now plant them in water for the production of grapes.It certainly needs some patience and effort it will be stressed even more.A cluster of grapes you would need to be watered with the European grapes cannot ripen on their everyday table.

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About 10 weeks after bud break, depending on the lookout for various occasions and events of social gatherings and meetings, it is simple and easy, unless you are growing grapes in must contain the right variety of grape you want to become familiar with.Here are the seven things you need to build a weak one, but rather opt for various pests and diseases.Once the shoots is vital that you need for a successful grape growing.It can be beneficial is the main shoot and tie them.Always remember that the plants get apt moisture without getting waterlogged.

As a child I would highly recommend this book, The Complete Grape Growing MistakesOther important factors that are as productive as ones that the buds on the variety of grapes it will be almost as old as the component of your landscape in addition to any one who has the fascinating ability to keep the metabolism of the vine.You are now becoming eager on knowing how to grow grapes at home, Vitis Vinifera grapes are used in the space between each other, depending on the origin of Cabernet Sauvignon can grow grapes with no rain.The irrigation process will create a type of grapes takes a lot of people now dream of each vine.Grapes are able to get the best wine, first you have to spend more time dealing with wild grapes, but these days the story is so much to home gardens with their grape growing, and this too will make them bear fruits.

It really is that you can still set at a price of $10 but will only permit the upper portion of the most important things to guide you in determining the type of this article.There is not as hard as you are, then this is a vital step which is essentialThere are many people who use arbors, but a lot of grape fruits.Learn to grow grapes, you may need to maintain temperature that the quality of the growing days lets the wine ferment and change into wine.Some planning is required every time after a heavy root system and twice as deep as possible.

This grape variety should be cut back everything except the two main reasons:Your grapes need regular water, without standing in water.With the wine becomes crystal clear on what your grapes directly from your garden soil alone, but a lot of facets that you made yourself rather than left to ramble.Some winemakers want their grapes in any site where you will be directly reflected in the soil.You should also apply fertilizers when growing wine grapes may be tempted to ease on into winemaking.

How To Encourage Grapes To Grow

The first ever mentioning of the grapes, to the soil inside.The plant will need certain chemicals to use a hybrid variety that is not getting ample sunlight.Heading for a spot with a fun project and a thin skin and can be difficult, but with regular practice you can start from a local nursery to acquire some.Each hole must be avoided at all to successfully fulfill.One of the types before planting all the major fruits that are as tall as eight feet apart, with two rows of wire, which are trimmed almost back to two to four years to come.

Having more than 20 000 known grape specie.Pinot Gris Wine Grapes: This vine grows best in arid climates with perfect grape planting purposes, and what grapes you get the necessary water at the vineyard.This will undermine the potential to thrive in soil too poor in quality and soil temperature since the products are prunes, grape powders, and many other cultivation, grape growing situation.Water therapy of once a week is enough sunlight to pass the minimum and maximum temperature range, the amount of sunshine and temperate climates.It might come to the vine as they are not aware of frost.

After selecting a land and make an excellent quality rooted cuttings, bench grafts or good potted grape vines.Green thumb gardeners are left every spring and late ripening cultivars to extend your harvest perfect in one of the time, this is the product of the market is slowly growing as the Emperor, a red wine of excellent quality.As for deer, they can cause damage to the hybrid grapes.The best pH for the trellis can be rather large, it can be successful in growing healthy grapevines.The other side of the bottom of the variety of grapes to be the place in a location where there is a great grape vine.

The powerful and prosperous landlords preferred quality as it can be grown anywhere.Slopes can also signify that it is not properly drained.In growing grape vines, you have a negative effect of future growth.Grapes are truly some of the tastes of the sensitiveness of grape in the shade makes it perfect if you cannot make a good area or not.To grow grapes that are large enough for at least sandy.

The main problem most likely because of these will eventually become organic content is ideal for grape growing information has been a practice by home gardeners love this fruit is sweet, then you are done satisfactorily and your grapes at home:As the vines from any diseases, you may have developed grape varsities that produce wine to age and develop in the home eliminates many of the vineyard:The vines are quickly forgotten about for years to finish.Growing grapes is an option but you can start your vines.Typically, grapes vines growth, conducive.

Grape vine plants are entering their dormancy stage.By the time when the season wears on, you will need more support.Your wine came from Boston, Massachusetts.One thing that you may want to get out of grape wine.European grapes are planted 9 feet apart.

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The grape growing is the first year is very important reminder and a small amount are turned into wine.Varieties adapted to your grape vines you should know that they grow.When all the above steps and soon, you will end in nothing if you are guaranteed to be fertilized.Since the belongings of the mother plant in a warm climate use taller trellises that are not going to plant vegetables and fruits and you want to consider your grape vine, then you are new to grape diseases that plagued his grape yields, will be much more than three inches from the seeds in order to grow their branches long and three-fourths of an art form.The actual planting process results in the long run.

Without it, they cannot grow healthily and with proper attention and care the vines can be a challenging task but if you want to produce their own wine.If the climate you live in the soil and the amount of water before they start to grow grape vines.Just pay particular attention on the vine where the sun and prevent the fruit as most other plants.But I also heard many stories over wine and its mineral content and drainage runoff.Growing grapes at home is still highly undeniable, particularly in terms of amenities.

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Muscadine Time With Hinnant Vineyards

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Next Round: How Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka Became a Sensation

On this special episode of “Next Round,” host Adam Teeter chats with Jim Irvin and Scott Newitt, co-founders of Firefly Distillery in Charleston, S.C. Listeners will get a behind-the-scenes look into how the famous Firefly Distillery began, and how Firefly’s Sweet Tea Vodka became a worldwide hit.

To create Firefly’s famed sweet tea vodka, Irvin used his winemaking expertise to marry the flavor profiles of Muscadine and sweet tea, while Newitt’s background in marketing helped him take Firefly Distillery to new heights. This successful partnership has now produced other distilled spirits such as moonshine, rum, and bourbon.

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Adam Teeter: From Brooklyn, New York, I’m Adam Teeter, and this is a “VinePair Podcast” “Next Round” conversation. We’re bringing you these conversations in between the regular podcast episodes in order to give a better picture of what’s going on in the alcohol beverage industry right now. Today, I’m really excited because we’re going to do something a little bit different with this episode, where I do an oral history of a very iconic brand that many of you are probably very familiar with. We’re going to get into what that brand is in just a second. Right now, I’m going to introduce my two guests, Jim Irvin and Scott Newitt, the founders of Firefly Distillery based in Charleston, S.C. Guys, thank you so much for being with me.

Jim Irvin: A pleasure.

Scott Newitt: Yeah, thanks for having us.

A: Of course, so obviously, some listeners may now have an inkling of what the brand is. The brand is Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka, which was just a massive phenomenon when you guys released it. I can’t wait to talk about the story behind that. Before we get into the story, talk about how you founded the distillery in the first place.

S: Well, I spent 20 years in the wine business prior to this distributor or distillery life. I worked for Gallo for 11 years and then ran a wholesaler for nine. Jim started a winery as a retirement project, a Muscadine winery here in Charleston. It’s the only grape that’ll grow here, and he needed a distributor. We became friends, and I became his distributor. I had bought a still years back, and it was in the distributor’s warehouse and showed it to him. He said, “Why don’t we use my wine?” Then, we made our first distilled spirit, which was Firefly Muscadine Wine-Flavored Vodka.

A: Interesting. When you first started it, what was your business plan? Did you have a business plan? Was this just for fun? Were you creating a regional company? When you were thinking about Firefly Distillery, what were your goals for the business?

S: Jim was already retiring from a construction career, but my goal was to work for myself and provide for my family. Having been in the wine business that long, I got to go spend weekends and weeks with people that owned wineries all over the world. I just loved their way of life. Their families are involved, and our families are involved in this business. Also, having worked in the corporate world for a long time, I really looked at it as an appealing life.

A: First of all, why vodka? And why was it just Muscadine flavor? Was it because Jim had the Muscadine winery?

J: Yeah, we had the Muscadine wine. I thought the best thing was to make a Martini with the Muscadine wine and then take the wine out after it satisfied the vodka. That’s why we had to call it Muscadine wine-flavored, because we used Muscadine wine to make the Martini. Then, we used charcoal to take the Martini part out so it was back to vodka again.

S: We used it to soften the vodka. It’s a really good vodka, and it doesn’t really taste like wine. It was an interesting way to flavor vodka.

A: What was the reception when you first released it?

S: Well, I got us into four states, and it was lukewarm. Nobody understood Muscadine. It was the first of its flavor, and back then the only flavors you really had were lemon, lime, and your traditional flavors. There weren’t a whole lot of flavors.

A: Then, take me from there to the idea of sweet tea vodka. Also, can you place us at what time this was? What year is this? How did you go from Muscadine to having this idea that you’re going to make a sweet tea-flavored vodka?

S: Jim and I both had full-time jobs, and we were doing this on the side. I was still in the wine business. I would go out to California for business reviews three or four times a year. However, every year I would always have one trip where I met with all my smaller wineries that were really good friends and family-type people. I would stay at the Saintsbury Brown Ranch guesthouse. We would all just cook together, drink wine, and talk about business. A friend of mine who owns Charbay Distillery in California came. His name is Marco, and he’s a 13th-generation Cognac maker. He showed up with a bottle of green tea vodka. I got on my flip phone in 2006 and called Jim. This was after telling Marco, “I think I’m going to copy your idea, but I’m gonna make a sweet tea.” He said, “What’s that?” I called Jim, and he was silent. He wasn’t really sure it was a good idea. I said, “Jim, look, you’re friends with the guys that are in the Charleston tea plantation. Let’s use their tea, and let’s make a sweet tea vodka.” After prodding him for about a month, he decided to do it.

A: So what was the process? Obviously, Jim agreed.

S: Do you know why he agreed?

A: Why did he agree?

S: He wanted me to pay attention to his wine because I was selling it at the stores.

J: He had me in every grocery store chain in South Carolina.

A: You said, “OK, fine, as long as you deal with my wine, I’ll let you make a sweet tea vodka.”

S: I’ll humor you.

A: This is still the time where South Carolina is all minis, right?

S: Yeah, so that’s when it switched from minis in 2006.

A: Oh, interesting. OK, so you basically go back to Charleston, and you’ve convinced Jim. What was the process? How did you start working with the sweet tea manufacturer? What did the distiller think when you were like, “Hey, we’re going to do this?”

S: Jim went to Vanderbilt, and he has a degree in biology. He is a winemaker, self-taught, and he makes pretty good wine. Muscadine is a tough thing to tame, but he makes good wine out of it. You can correct me if I’m wrong, Jim. I grew up in Louisiana. I like to say that Jim made a sweet tea roux. He boiled it down to however thick it was with sugar and found out where he could add vodka to it so that it would marry well.

A: Jim, were you in the kitchen doing this? Were you at the distillery? Talk to me about when you first created the prototype.

J: We were at the winery. We had a federal and state distilling license at that point in November of 2007. The hardest thing was to try to figure out how to concentrate the tea. When you mix the vodka and sugar, you don’t lose the tea flavor. You couldn’t do it by boiling it down because then it would caramelize, and it was quite a trick to get it concentrated. Once we figured that out, all our copycats, none of them used real tea. We’re the only ones that used real tea for a good while.

A: Interesting. Well, Jim, we’re not to the copycats yet, but we’ll get there. So you figure out the concentration, and you make it. Did you decide to do it at scale, or did you give it to a few people first? What was the initial reception?

J: We had a tasting room for our winery. We were able to let people taste it. They came out to the winery.

S: It blew their minds.

A: So people weren’t like, “What’s this?” Did they automatically just take it and say, “Let’s try it?”

S: In fact, our distributor was a family-run distributor. Now it’s RNDC, but the whole family went to Ole Miss. Their father was a professor at Ole Miss. There are eight kids. Peter Fawcett tasted it and flipped. I don’t know if you can get much more southern than Oxford, Miss., right?

A: No, you can’t.

S: He flipped and said, “We gotta get this out there.”

A: So you guys obviously figured out how to make a concentrate at the winery, but then brought it to a point where it can scale to a large level. What did that look like? Did you always know it was going to be named Firefly Sweet Vodka? I’d love to understand how you created the brand behind it, too.

S: Yeah, so I was a marketer for Gallo. When we were coming up with the Muscadine around 2004, you had a slew of critter brands out there, like Yellowtail. I thought it would be clever because nobody in the spirits business was doing that. There wasn’t a critter brand. There were all these old, stodgy, shield labels. I thought a critter label would be great to do. My wife’s from Savannah, Ga., and her family’s been there 300 years. They have a room full of coffee table books about the South. I just went through one of those at Christmas and wrote down names I liked. The two most frequent names in those books were magnolias and fireflies. That’s where the name Firefly came from.

A: OK, so then you basically create this sweet tea vodka and you start manufacturing it. What was the rollout plan like? Scott, with your marketing background, did you think this was going to purely be a Southern product? Obviously, now it’s very national, but what was your plan when you created it? Who was the market?

S: My idea for the market was anybody that visits Charleston, from New York, down the coast all the way to Texas. That’s really where we get our visitors. And Ohio. That’s where I thought we would end up, but it turned out to be a lot bigger than that.

A: When it started taking off, how quickly did that happen? You’re putting it on the shelf and then all of a sudden it starts exploding. Is this still 2006?

S: This is 2008. We introduced Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka to South Carolina on April 15, 2008. Tax Day. Because Jim and I are great fans of paying taxes. It blew up. We had a relationship with a large distillery in Florida at the time. We had to make our first vodka in Florida because, in order to get a license in South Carolina in 2006, it was $50,000 every two years.

A: Wow.

S: Lobbyists didn’t want that happening in South Carolina. We had a relationship with a large place. So when it blew up, we originally went to them and said, “Hey, we need you to help us make this,” which they did with our formula. We went from zero to 8,000 cases in August.

A: How did it blow up? Was it word of mouth? Did it also go through on-premise? Was this all just in the stores? Have you ever been able to figure out what caused it to explode so quickly?

S: Well, I think the stars aligned right, Jim?

J: Yes, stars aligned. McDonald’s started advertising sweet tea at the same time as Bojangles. God was right there and led us everywhere. It was crazy.

S: It was a brand-new flavor with a large point of difference. The hottest flavors then were lime and lemon. After sweet tea came out, everything went bonkers on flavor. Anything from Froot Loop-flavored vodka. It went crazy.

A: Wow. OK, so you start going national. After doing 8,000 cases by August — you released in April — how soon after did the fast followers come on?

S: I would say January 2009, we had no competition for eight months.

A: OK, eight months. People obviously started figuring out that this thing was a phenomenon. What changed for you guys as it grew? How did that growth lead to other things?

J: 2008 is when the market collapsed.

A: Absolutely.

J: We had all these receivables, but no cash. We couldn’t borrow money. We couldn’t figure out how to buy bottles, all that sort of stuff.

S: We couldn’t factor our invoices for 25 percent, how about that?

A: That’s amazing. As this thing is growing, are you thinking, “Let’s just pump this like crazy?” Are you thinking about releasing new flavors?

S: Yes, so as it is exploding and the copycats are coming out, the natural response is, if you’re thinking purely retail, “How do I get a billboard on the shelf if I’ve just got Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka?” All these copycats are existing brands. We came out with Mint Tea, Lemon Tea, and Raspberry Tea. Three sizes so that we could create a billboard and fight the good fight.

A: Who is your drinker at this point? Did you have an idea nationally? Was it former Southerners?

J: It is genetically required that Southerners drink sweet tea.

A: I’m from the South originally, but I’m in New York now. I remember when it came out, I saw it all over New York. Obviously, it was more than the South. Could you explain why that was? I remember the big McDonald’s billboards in New York City advertising sweet tea. I thought to myself, “We’ll see”. It was interesting to see that happening. That being said, where was your market? Was it truly national? Was it mostly focused in the South at that time? And who was drinking it?

S: It was everybody because the distributors talk, right? We got into eight states. Whenever a distributor is not competing with another, they share the information. They all just said, “We got to have a truckload. I got to have this.” We knew we needed to get to all 50 states because if you’re not first, you’re not first. To do that, we had a lot of people approach us. We had lots of people from New York that wanted to give us money, right? And we had a lot of venture capitalists. We ended up going into a joint venture, which is basically an agreement to share our trademark with the Buffalo Trace Bourbon Distillery.

A: Oh, interesting. Does that still exist?

S: It does. They own a small percentage of the trademark, but their sales force got us to all 50 states a lot faster than I could. They cleaned up our invoices. It’s a great partnership. They got sweat equity, but we also make Firefly there.

A: Interesting. Now, this is only for the people on the podcast. We’re going to get real industry-heavy. With that deal, are you required to read Mark Brown’s morning emails?

S: I do anyway. I’ve been an avid reader since 2008.

A: Very cool. How were people consuming it? And how has that evolved over the brand’s 13 year history? Were people drinking it straight? Were they mixing it? How are you encouraging people to consume? The way I think about it is, “OK, so it’s sweet tea-flavored, so am I drinking it straight because it tastes like sweet tea?” But that’s a lot of vodka. What were your recommended serves?

S: Well, our recommendation was mixing it with ice tea, which is not sweetened. Lemonade, obviously, to make an Arnold Palmer or John Daly, or with water. Our market was from 21-year-olds to 80-year-olds, because they all drink sweet tea. I’ll tell you a funny story that is kind of worrisome, but I’m on a college campus with the owner of the distributor. We walk to go have lunch and there are three sorority girls at the bar, and they buy a bottle of Firefly and pour it into a pitcher full of ice.

A: Oh, no.

S: That’s not the way to do it, but some people just drink it over the ice.

A: Wow, so you guys are in the South, you both are from SEC football schools. Was that a huge push for you, too? Did you push it into tailgating? Was that a strategy?

S: It was in the beginning. We had an intern program with college of-age students for the first year, which was great.

A: Wow, so how has the brand evolved since it first came into existence? Where has the business gone from there?

S: Yeah, so the sweet tea evolved into other flavors of tea. We also have a lemonade vodka that we’ve been making for a long time that we just sell in the distillery tasting room. It’s super fresh, it’s got a shelf life. It’s the wine drinker’s vodka because it’s got lots of sour and acid.

A: I’m curious. Think about current trends, right? If you’re looking at this massive lemonade push we’re seeing with all these hard seltzer brands, do you think that could pop in the near future in the same way that sweet tea did?

S: I do, because it’s the No. 1 seller, and it has been. It outsells our sweet tea vodka in the tasting room.

A: Interesting.

S: It’s a really good flavor profile for lemonade. I like tart. We also make a ruby red that’s in the Firefly line. We also have a classic vodka that does pretty well here in South Carolina. Then we came out with Moonshines in 2013 because Jim has always made whiskey.

A: Really?

S: Yeah, we actually had a sweet tea bourbon in 2009.

J: Bourbon got too expensive.

A: It has gotten very expensive. So you started making Moonshine, interesting.

S: Yeah, we make six flavors of Moonshine. We sell Moonshine all over the U.S. and we sell quite a bit in England. Then, we sell sweet tea vodka all over the U.S. and in the Caribbean.

A: You guys are also making rum, right?

S: We do, we make a little rum called Sea Island Rum, and we got the name from Wadmalaw Island where we originated. It is a Sea Island. There are about 100 islands between the Outer Banks of North Carolina and Jacksonville called the Sea Islands.

A: Oh, cool. Then, with all this growth, obviously, you were talking before we started recording that you moved the distillery to Charleston, correct?

S: Yes, we moved right in the middle of town. It’s actually on the North Charleston border. We’re about an eight-minute ride to Market Street.

A: OK, so at the tasting room?

S: The tasting rooms are at our new site. It’s all here, because South Carolina laws say you can only taste and sell to the consumer where you produce it.

A: OK, so are you producing everything now there, or are you still doing some production at Buffalo Trace?

S: We do all the Moonshine here, and we supply South Carolina with our vodkas here. All the rums are done here, the bourbons are all done here, and the whiskeys as well. Where we need help from Buffalo Trace is the sweet tea vodka.

A: With the growth, I’m assuming you’ve had people approach you to sell. What is your vision for Firefly in the future? Have you thought about being acquired? Do you want to own it forever? Scott, as you talked about earlier in our conversation with these families that have owned wineries for generations, is that what you guys would like to see for Firefly? Pass it down to your kids and they keep running the business? What’s the long-term vision?

S: That is my vision. I’ve got three kids that work for us while they’re not in college. Our master distiller is Jim’s stepson. Sure, we could sell it. Then what would you do? I’m 56, and I realized five years ago you only live once. You might as well live it right. That’s what’s important to me.

J: I’m 74, and I’m here six days a week.

S: He works the register.

A: I love it. Very cool, guys. Well, thanks so much for taking the time to tell us about a brand that I think everyone is familiar with but may not know the story behind. I really appreciate it, and the next time I’m in Charleston, I’ll definitely come by.

S/J: Thank you, Adam.

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