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Eat Local - Growing Grapes In The Backyard
Walk around Somerville, Medford or Cambridge in late August and you're likely to catch a whiff of grape juice.  Concord grapes ripen at the end of summer and there's many a backyard arbor to be found in the city.  More than once I've plucked grapes from the vine while showing a property and I have wonderful memories of sitting beneath dangling bunches of fragrant grapes at the Neighborhood Restaurant in Union Square, Somerville. Best of all - Concord grapes are like tasty vitamins - loaded with disease-fighting antioxidants.  
Though I grew up in Concord, home of the Concord Grape, I was a fan of green grapes - the supermarket variety - until I bought my current house which came with an old grape vine in the backyard.  Now every summer I feel like a farmer as I harvest my crop of sweet smelling grapes.   
I'm an amateur farmer, however, sorely in need of guidance.  Benign neglect has led to a substandard crop. Many of the grape clusters wither on the vine and I'm sure my overgrown arbor should be mercilessly pruned.  What's an uninformed gardener to do?  
In Massachusetts help can be found at the Mass Aggie Seminars offered through the University of Massachusetts.  Workshops ... more

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