Some friends from Escondido, CA, introduced me to their grape vine of concord grapes. The grapes were lucious and sweet so I figured they would make a good wine.
However, when I got home I realized that I only had picked 11 lbs. of concord grapes. Not nearly enough for making 5 gallons of wine. On [...]
I have a neighbor with orange trees who lets the fruit drop. So I asked him if I could make wine from his oranges. In return for the oranges, I promised him some of the finished product. He agreed and pointed me to the tree with the oldest oranges. Apparently, some of these oranges had [...]
Living in Southern California north of San Diego I have a few tropical guava trees—ranging from big Thai guavas which grow to 6” wide to tiny Mexican crème guavas that are around 1” wide. This year with the fruit dropping from the trees faster than we could pick it I decided to try my hand [...]