Books written by Chuck Blethen, farm crafts & products, Katuah Muscadine grapevines for Sale
This page contains in order:
Books written by Chuck Blethen
Appalachian Tobacco Stick Art Items
Free Range Eggs/Beef (in season)
Katuah Muscadine & Katuah Scuppernong Grapevines for sale
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Books written by Chuck Blethen for Sale
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Pre-order below for March 2024 delivery
“Entertaining with Wine” book is 6”x8” soft cover and has 228 pages including many useful Appendices on terminology, etiquette, how to interpret foreign wine labels, and other useful tips. The price of the book is $22 including shipping.
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“How I Tamed the Wild Muscadines of Madison County NC” book is 6”x8” soft cover and has 162 pages. The book covers the story of discovery, propagation, and commercialization of the wild muscadines found growing in the mountains of Madison County NC. Everything you need to know to successfully grow cold-hardy muscadines in the mountains or cold climates. The price of the book is $25 including shipping. The book will be available for delivery after March 1, 2024.
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“World’s Largest Collection of Country Wine Recipes” book is 8.5”x11” spiral bound (so it lays flat) and has 201 pages including 195 separate recipes with multiple versions on popular recipes, lots of useful conversion tables/charts, and the know-how to make good country wines from native grapes, fruits, berries, vegetables, flowers, roots, herbs, leaves, nuts, bark, seeds, sap, honey, and fungi. The price of the book is $34 including shipping.
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Appalachian Tobacco Stick Art Items
Chuck has created Appalachian Cheese Boards, Appalachian Cutting Boards, Appalachian Rolling Pins and the Appalachian Butter Knife, all crafted from from old tobacco sticks found in many of Madison County’s old Burley tobacco barns. Here you can purchase his tobacco stick art items – Functional art items with a history!
No two Tobacco Stick Art items are exactly alike.
Some have small holes left by termites or wood borers that give them a unique character. Holes are visible but filled with clear epoxy.
Typically tobacco sticks were made from locally available woods.
The white wood is poplar (sometimes with a greenish tinge), ash, hickory or maple, the reddish tinge is pine, and the buff-colored open grain is oak.
Occasionally a piece of walnut or cherry was used as a tobacco stick.
When we find one we use it as an accent stripe in our products.
Each tobacco stick art item is double coated with an FDA approved food grade finish to bring out the color and protect the wood from food stains.
These Tobacco Stick Art items make wonderful souvenirs from the mountains of Western North Carolina. Give a gift of functional Art with History!
Now available:
Appalachian Cutting Board with handle (8 inch x 15 inch ) – $54
Appalachian Butter Knife (8 inches long) – $24
Appalachian Harlequin Rolling pin (16 inches long) – $59
Cheese Board (8 inches x 8 inches, no handle) – $39
Prices include shipping/packing to anywhere in the continental USA. Part of the proceeds go to the Appalachian Barn Alliance to help preserve the historically significant old Burley tobacco barns of Madison County. Click the “Buy Now” button below to order our Tobacco Stick Art items using any valid credit card for payment.
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Free Range Eggs & Scottish Highland Beef
We raise free range chickens and have eggs for sale from time to time, depending upon the season.
We also raise Scottish Highland cattle and have limited amounts of beef for sale, depending upon when our last steer was taken to the butcher.
Contact Jeannie Blethen for prices and availability.
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Katuah Muscadine (red) & Katuah Scuppernong (white) Grapevines for sale – Now taking orders for 2024 delivery.
Our cold-hardy Katuah Muscadine & Katuah Scuppernong plants must be ordered 1 year ahead of time to allow us time to propagate them for you. We have a minimum order of 10 grapevines. You can mix and match both varieties. Shipping costs will be billed once your order is packed and ready to ship. Current shipping estimates for 10 vines is about $30 for east coast and $70 for west coast locations. You may choose to order 10 to 400 Katuah Muscadines grapevines by clicking the small arrows at the end of the line below. Your order will not be processed unless you provide your telephone number and mailing address.