We were on the move again making our way to Portland, New York to attend a
Winery Sanitation Workshop, at CLEREL (more on this in a future blogpost).
We drove from Connecticut to New York. Our first stop was a black locust lumber provider. We want to use black locust for our vineyard because of it's natural longevity it doesn't need any chemical preservatives. We met Tom at his lumberyard. It was brutually cold and he had let his crew go home for the day. We saw mountains of black locust.
Tom showed us some 10 foot x 4-6 inch logs. We really liked the idea of locust posts...until we saw them. They were crooked and they came with the bark still on them. Tom said that he could take the bark off, but then it would cost us $25.00 a post! Time to rethink vineyard posts. Sigh. My husband said, "That's why we go to see them first hand." Next stop, Finger Lakes.
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