It is late spring here in Lake Chelan, Washington. We are in the Northern Hemisphere. I am reminding you about this because growing seasons are different in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. Here, our growing season is pretty much March to the end of October.

We're going to be pruning in the vineyard today, and at Nefarious, we do something called two bud pruning. We do this for a reason. Each one of the buds on these canes will produce a tendril or a shoot. Our ideal scenario is when these shoots have come up, that we've got about four inches, or about a fist, between every one of these shoots that comes out of the bud.

This is the first video in a year-long series we will be doing in the vineyard. This is so that you can come to understand what happens in a single growing season. It is January here in Lake Chelan. Some years we have snow on the ground, other years it looks just like it does right now.

We only have a little more than 300 acres of vines planted in this valley, and it's a big fruit production area. (apples and pears!) The birds are naturally drawn here. The bird netting is just one of those things about making wine in Lake Chelan. If we don't put up this bird netting to protect our grapes, we won't have any come harvest time. So that is what is the deal here. When you see this in another region, you know that they too are suffering from too many of those friendly creatures. That's really all there is to it.