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Green Grape Winemaking

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Latest Off the Grid craze at our house - Winemaking
Recycled bottles all assembled, grapes prepared, patience is not prepared ....
Collect and save all the bottles from that wine you have consumed. We are kicking ourselves now at all the wine bottles we took to be recycled when we lived in the city as we could sure do with them all right now. 
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