S1 EP0019 - In the Vineyard

If you like this podcast, please be sure to rate us 5 stars in Apple podcasts and like our videos on YouTube!<br/><br/>Episode 0019:<br/><br/>Finger Lakes Viticulture &#8211; August 17, 2021<br/><br/>As I&#8217;ve mentioned, I&#8217;m from California.&#160; I was born and raised until I was around 11 years old in Huntington Beach, I spent a few of my teenage-hood years just outside of Rochester, NY, and then returned to California and lived throughout the state until I was around 30 years old.&#160; Living in the mild climate of southern California skews the way you perceive seasons.&#160; Warm and beautiful summers merely give way to mild winters.&#160; The pool is never covered and winterized, the sun rarely gives way, and the garden is lively nearly the entire year.&#160; Perhaps it was a form of seasonal deprivation I experienced growing up, or maybe&#160; it is something that most people perceive, but I find myself becoming more attune to the changes in temperature and weather generally as I grow older in the Finger Lakes, and even more specifically to the way the light changes.&#160; The light, the reflection in the leaves, the glow on the horizon, the changing times of sunrise and sunset, are the precursors that hint at coming change.&#160; In the late winter and early spring, these changes are exhilarating and enticing.&#160; They foretell the promise of unknowns.&#160; As August creeps towards its end, and summer begins its wind down, it is not necessarily the temperatures that foretell what awaits, but a glowing premonition which prepares our bodies, our minds, and the plants for what is waiting days, weeks and months into the future.&#160; The observation is empowering, it&#8217;s a primal instinct that signals to your body that you are in tune with your place.&#160; It is also humbling.&#160; You do not have a veto, you can not change this course, nature will always prevail.<br/><br/>Beginning a week ago, I commented to my wife that the light is changing, the great wind down has begun, and the phase c