Making homemade wine is an excellent way to use up a burgeoning fruit harvest, and it's easy! This is step five in my fruit wine making series, and in this step, you will learn 4 different ways to bottle the wine you worked so hard to make. Steps for Bottling Your Homemade Wine Before we get started, you'll want to choose a bottling vessel. There are a few good ...
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How to Make Fruit Wine at Home: 3rd Ferment or Sediment Removal
We are now at part 4 in the wine making process--exciting! So far we have gathered our tools, made the mash for the first ferment, transferred for the second ferment, and now it's time for another transfer of the wine for the purpose of removing sediment, and if needed, more fermenting time. Why transfer so many times in the wine making process? The purpose for ...
How to Make Fruit Wine at Home: Second Ferment
So far, we have gathered our tools for the wine making process, made the mash for the first ferment, and this week it's time to transfer our wine to a 1 gallon jug for the second ferment! Are we having fun yet? I know I am! Despite the fact that I am 72 days sober on the day I'm writing this article, I really do enjoy making wine. We grow chardonnay grapes here on our ...
How to Make Fruit Leather from Any Fruit
If you have your own fruit trees or partake in loss leader deals at the store, you may find yourself with lots of extra fruit on hand during the summer. Rather than letting your overripe fruit go into the compost pile, why not take advantage of the sweetness of fruit at this stage and learn how to make fruit leather? It's nature's candy! So you've made your strawberry jam, ...
How to Make Fig Wine at Home {Step-by-Step Instructions}
Summer is the season when many delicious fruits are harvested. Sometimes the windfall more than provides more than enough jam, frozen fruit, fruit leather, and other fruit products until next harvest. A great way to use up all of your extra figs is to learn how to make fig wine at home. A few years ago, we were invited to a friend's farm to harvest figs from her huge tree. ...
How to Make Strawberry Wine Step-By-Step
There's little more satisfying than filling your plate or glass with something you made with your own hands. Even better if it's something you have grown on your homestead! Making fruit wine is one of those satisfying activities, and this one yields the best flavor. This post will teach you how to make strawberry wine with store bought, or home-grown berries. If you ...
Wine Making Process: How to Start an Easy First Ferment
Do you grow fruit on your homestead and are not sure what else you can do with it? Has your family eaten enough of it that they are ready for it to go out of season? Are you jammed and jellied out? Why not try wine making? In this post, I'll take you through step 2 in the fruit wine making process, which is starting the first ferment. ( Didn't catch step 1? Read it ...
Wine Making Process: What You Need to Get Started
Preserving what we grow is so rewarding, and there are so many ways to do it! Home canning, dehydrating, freezing, and even storing are a few ways to "put up" the foods you grow, but there are definitely more! One of my favorite ways to preserve fruit is to make wine. This post will kick off a series that will take you through the fruit wine making process, step-by-step from ...
How to Preserve Grapes with Your Freezer
Grapes are one of the most fantastic fruits we can grow on our homestead. Not only do they taste amazing right off the vine, you can learn how to preserve grapes by dehydrating, freezing, or making wines and vinegars. While growing grapes might seem like a tricky endeavor, once you have them going, they will produce for you year after year. Your grapevines will provide you ...
5 Ways to Care for Yourself In and Out of the Garden
Gardeners are tough stock. You spend time outdoors hauling dirt, yanking out dead plants, turning soil, and doing all that needs done to make a harvest. In the process, your body gets sore, fingernails dirty, and hands, dry and cracked from use. Here are 5 ways to exercise self-care in and out of the garden. Self-Care is Necessary for Everyone Though you might feel like ...
How to Make a Delicious Peach BBQ Sauce {+ Canning Instructions}
Whether you are purchasing peaches from the store or using your peach harvest, you may not have thought of making something savory with them. After you've made your jam, fruit leather, and wine, make sure to save a few lbs to make peach bbq sauce! Barbecue is some of the best food on earth, thank God it's so easy to do! Todd and I ran across this recipe when we were trying ...
How To Eliminate Food Waste When You Harvest
Gardening is a lot of work, and throwing any part of the harvest away can feel excruciating. Learning the ways to use more of our harvested produce will put more food on the shelf and eliminate food waste in the kitchen. Love finding ways to use up every bit of what you harvest from the garden you work so hard on each season? I get you! For some reason, I feel a ...