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Firefighters, nurses ferment good times at Rain Shadow Cellars

2016-01-03 05:16:13| Agriculture - Topix.net

Wines that taste the same year after year? That's not what the foursome who own Rain Shadow Cellars are all about, they said during a recent visit. "We could try to perfect a wine, or we could change it to try coming up with something that's unique," said Craig Anderson, who with his wife Kristy owns the Coupeville house where the wine is produced.

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These Ice Cellars Fed Arctic People for Generations. Now They're Melting

2015-10-30 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: Building an underground ice cellar to store bowhead whale and other meat in Barrow, Alaska, is no small task. Even in the summertime, permafrost is hard as a rock a foot or so below the surface. Last year Herman Ahsoak employed a jackhammer and drill to construct a cellar for the whaling crew he has captained for more than a decade. But in the spring, melting snow penetrated the hatch, and the 14-foot deep cellar "filled all the way to the top with water," Ahsoak says. Maintaining ice cellars...

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