Bob - that sounds absolutely fascinating. And you really went for it, didn't you? I thought we were doing things on a big scale this year with home-made, natural wines and other products from the garden*, but it's not remotely on the same scale as your operation there. I'd have loved to have seen it.
* Two batches of a gallon each of nettle wine plus another gallon just bottled, a gallon of medlar wine, a gallon of marrow wine, two gallons of dandelion wine, a small amount of grape wine (I know!
) from grapes from our garden, and I'm just about to set a gallon of oak leaf wine going, plus we've got a kit of wine from concentrate on the go which will produce 30 bottles of perfectly drinkable White Zinfandel. Oh, that reminds me - I've got to bottle my sloe port.
Then there's all the other garden products, like ash key pickle, nettle soup/quiche/pesto etc, dandelion leaf salad, nasturtium seed 'capers' and various other things. I kind of like to 'forage' in my own garden, which is a tad on the wild side!