Dale Hodgins wrote:I also used to live in a wine area and there's a bit of it here. Those concerned with making alcohol couldn't seem to understand that I just wanted grapes to eat. The ones for wine were so sweet that that sweetness covered up everything else.
Grapes for wine are incredibly cheap, so someone doing it at home by hand can't begin to compete if you were ever to want to sell some. When I look at organically grown grapes at the grocery store, they tend to go for about $4 a pound. I've only grown a few grapes but enough to know that I could do very well selling them at $4 a pound.
Ditto! Everybody sells grapes for wine here but also make their own then distill some to make aguadiente which ghey flavourwith herbs. Many people keep
bees and equipment forbee keeping, wine making and growing is available everywhere. . Everybody is subsistence farming. It gives a bit of cash in August. Then they walk around their hamlets collecting chestnuts and sell them for a pittance to chestnut processing plants. Same with apples and potatoes. Everybody grows their own vegetables, keep livestock of every type for meat, maybe raising an extra cow for sale. In the winter they kill a pig and the extended family arrives to drink the young wine and make chorizo (1 per person per week plus 1 extra per week for guests) which they smoke. They are all incredibly healthy and happy and live for a extraordinary length of time.