The sun flower field next to Nalanda Monastery in France

    Chanterelle and Steinpilz I helped to harvest in the woods near Ranschbach

                                                    Making jerky in a smoker I borrowed

                                          

                                           home made biscuits

                                                     The new vineyard we are building.

                                                     An older vineyard

                                           Wild blueberries

                                                     Native orchids

                                           More blueberries

                                           The chicken house we are building.

                                                     On our way up the mountain

 

                                                     Cascade at La Cote France

                                           Some super stinky delicious cheese Ben got me

                                           Cool ice cave we found at the top of a slide

                                           Wild Mouflon sheep

                                           There are about 20 sheep on the slope below that point

                                                     Super thick stone walls

                                           Chalet Antoine

                                           hobos of the Alps

                                           Our cooking can

                                                     The stream going by our camp

                                           Polenta peanut butter and a plant that tastes like rhubarb

Vine pruning and other things

                                           My sweet new bike

There is a park near my house with vines pruned in all of the different ways they have been since grapes have been around.

                                           A low lying type of pruning good for cold because you can bury it in the                                                 winter.

                                                     Pruning for very steep vineyards good because you can walk in a                                                      zigzag between the vines.

                                           Name: Niedere Pfalzer Erziehung, Another low lying pruning style for                                                      cold weather. very hard to harvest though.

                                          Name: Offene Lyraerziehung, This style is good for allot of grapes.

                                                     Baumerziehung: the first style of grape training ever not very practical

                                           Geschlossener Kammertbau: A roman style good if you don't                                                                    have any metal.

                                          A trellis

                                           Pergola: Another non-metal style.

                                            Hone Pfalzer Erziehung: a primitive type of metal trellis.

                                           Offener Kammertbau: Another non-metal style.

                                           Don't have much info on those last two.

                                                     Flachbogen: not that different from the pruning around                                                                              here think it is good for mechanical pruning.

                                           Umkehrerziehung: don't know the story behind this.

                                           Pfaheirziehung:

                                           Just some cool looking vines don't know what their called.

                                           Vineyard snails good for making escargot.