Cove Crest Vinyard 3

Tanya watching Al

Allen Griggs has milled much of the lumber he needed from his own forest with his own mill.

Effort

Making a home and a vineyard—developing a self-sustaining farm—doing “all the work ourselves" and taking “pride in keeping our lifestyle simple and low impact” is a dream for so many thoughtful people these hectic days but so very few make the sustained effort to actualize their dream.

Allan and Mineca Griggs have had the strength, fortitude, time and good luck to be able to accomplish it at Cove Crest Vineyard.

As we toured their dream we could imagine the hours of hard work—the months of hard work—the years of sustained and skilled hard work necessary to realize their dream.

I have enough experience myself with remote country plumbing, carpentry, machine repair, constant problem solving and work, work, work to appreciate their wonderful little experiment in living at the end of the dirt track.

It is the difference between a person that diddles at chopsticks on the piano at family parties and a concert master that has devoted his life to perfecting his skill.

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