Category
- Seeking Sustainability
The beetles have arrived!
- Posted on March 27 2011, 10:53 am
- Posted by BHV Blog
"Predatory Beetles
Flying in from everwhere
Escaping flooded fields
Fleeing bird’s beaks
Zooming through vent holes of compost bins
Feeling safe
Suddenly becoming
The top of the food chain.
A congress of beetles
Skating across
The orange flows Directs the food chain
Of flyers and crawlers.
With the Beetles
In charge
It’s only poop for so long."
(from The Return of the Fertilizer King and Other Tales, by Mark U. Sturges)*
Taste with us this weekend and take home a tree!
- Posted on December 02 2010, 7:20 am
- Posted by BHV Blog
If you come to Bethel Heights this weekend (December 4th and 5th) you’ll not only get to taste some great wines; you can also take home a fresh cut, sustainably grown Christmas tree. This weekend, just $30 will get you a taste of all six wines we are pouring (including a special sneak peek at one of our delicious 2009 pinots!) and a beautiful, sustainably grown, 5-7 foot noble fir Christmas tree to take home and deck with yule-tide splendor.
If you’ve ever visited Bethel Heights, you’ve probably met Kate, our Tasting Room/Cellar Club manager. But you may not know that the Feldman Tree Farm, just a short distance up the road from Bethel Heights Vineyard, is Kate’s family business. The level of care the Feldman family takes with their trees is above and beyond the rest of the industry. And it shows; these are beautiful trees!
Kegs!
- Posted on November 12 2010, 7:06 am
- Posted by BHV Blog
Seeking more sustainable packaging, Mimi came up with kegs! 3 Doors Down in Portland, a pioneer of kegged wine-by-the-glass, is now pouring Bethel Heights 2009 Estate Grown Pinot Noir (our Black Label Pinot) from a 5-gallon keg instead of from bottles, saving everyone a whole lot of money and a whole lot of carbon footprint.
Tea Time for Mimi’s Worms
- Posted on September 07 2010, 9:31 pm
- Posted by Patd
This time last year Mimi convinced Ted to buy an old dairy tank where she could grow compost for the vineyard. They filled the tank with llama manure and some straw, and then tossed in a rich starter collection of soil dwelling organisms of all sizes and descriptions, known collectively as Mimi’s worms. Their population has since exploded to the point where the whole tank seems to writhe with life when you stir it up a bit. Now comes tea time.