Making Wine with Fruits, Roots & Flowers - Tapa blanda

Learning how to forage for ingredients, identify plants safely and make delicious wines is great fun and an important part of a healthy, back-to-basics, self-sufficient lifestyle. Whether from your garden, along country hedgerows or leftovers from a vegetable patch, there is always an opportunity to produce free wine! The range of home-produced wines is wide, from Elderberry, Damson and Medlar wines to those reclaimed from vegetable plots, such as Marrow, Mangold and Parsnip.

A country-dweller with roots in the city, she had her first taste of country wine some thirty years ago, and learned the art of making it from friends and acquaintances who knew more, and were better at it than she was, and who all shared their knowledge with great generosity. This book is written in homage to all those who gave their encouragement and introduced her to the pleasures of making wine from flowers, fruits, and local produce. She is also the author of numerous part-work articles and was a regular contributor to My Child, Gardening Made Easy, My Garden, Times Past, Home Health Fact File, and the children's part-works, Find Out More, Techno Quest, and Tree of Knowledge.