The Organic Backyard Vineyard: A Step-By-Step Guide to Growing Your Own Grapes - Softcover

Powers, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604692855 ISBN 13: 9781604692853

Verlag: TIMBER PR INC, 2012

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Interest in wine shows no signs of slowing down—wine tours, tastings, and vacations are now common and homeowners often have space dedicated to their collection. The logical next step? Learning to grow and make your own.

In The Organic Backyard Vineyard expert Tom Powers walks the small grower through the entire process of growing grapes, with a month-by-month maintenance guide covering all regions of the U.S. and Canada. He explains everything a beginning grape grower needs to know: how to design and build a vineyard, how to select grapes for each region, how to maximize yield using organic maintenance techniques, how to build a trellis, how to harvest at peak flavor, and how to store grapes for winemaking.This edition includes organic growing information and all new photography.

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Tom Powers operates Alhambra Valley Ranch, a 58-acre sustainable family farm in western Contra Costa County, California. The farm is located on the urban edge, between Martinez, Orinda, Pinole, and Richmond. It produces grapes for wine, olives for oil and curing, and summer vegetables, including the best-tasting Cherokee Purple heirloom tomatoes in the world. On two hillside pastures Powers raises goats, sheep, llamas, and emus. Many of the animals are retired or rescued farm animals, but the sheep and goats have become another business element of the ranch.

Alhambra Valley was once filled with orchards and wine grapes before Prohibition (1919 to 1933), with such well-known farmers as John Muir and John Swett. Powers started his farm in 1998 and since 1999 has planted hundreds of backyard vineyards in Contra Costa and surrounding counties under the name of Diablo Vineyard Planting and Management. In 2005 he revived the historic grape-growing and wine-making tradition by starting a small commercial winery on his farm. His varietal wines and blends are sold directly to friends, neighbors, stores, and restaurants.

He has also added more farm products and processing activities, including a greenhouse operation so that he can get his prize Cherokee Purple tomatoes to market in May instead of July.

These activities constitute the fourth or fifth career for this former attorney, county supervisor, realtor, and consultant. However, Powers is from a long line of farmers, including his grandfather who started one of the first farms in the Imperial Valley in 1910.

Tom Powers was awarded Contra Costa County's Sustainable Farming Individual of the Year award in 2009. In addition to the ranch, he runs the Alhambra Valley Olive Oil Company and Alhambra Valley Wine Company and chairs the Brentwood Agricultural Land Trust Board and the Contra Costa County Agricultural Advisory Board.

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“With The Organic Backyard Vineyard Tom Powers has given home gardeners the tools they need to go from wine-lover to winegrower. This is the real deal.” —Colby Eierman, author of Fruit Trees in Small Spaces: Abundant Harvests from Your Own Backyard
 
Whether you have 50 square feet or an acre or more to plant, this straightforward guide will arm you with all the tools you need to successfully grow organic grapes. Expert Tom Powers walks you through the entire process month by month. He explains everything you need to know—from selecting grape varieties to planting, growing, and training, maintaining your vineyard using organic techniques, and finally harvesting your grapes at their peak flavor.
 
With The Organic Backyard Vineyard you can:

• Design and build your own home vineyard
• Select the best grapes for your region
• Maximize your yield
• Use the latest organic techniques
• Build a simple, strong trellis to maintain your vines
• Harvest your grapes at just the right time
• Store the bounty for winemaking

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: TIMBER PR INC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1604692855
• ISBN 13: 9781604692853
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 188
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