Last summer I returned to my rural Massachusetts hometown on a mission: to make my own natural wine, with “nothing added, nothing taken away.” For months I’d watched friends embrace ambitious new ...

Disperse the yeast in the water, then add the flour to make a dough, kneading it very well until it becomes smooth and highly elastic -- a good 1015 minutes. Let rise, covered, until doubled in bulk - ...

Maybe you’ve dabbled in making homemade wine and now are thinking about growing your own grapes. While wine grapes are by no means a plant-it-and-forget-it crop, a small backyard vineyard is possible ...