{"id":16213,"date":"2019-01-05T08:21:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T13:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=16213"},"modified":"2019-01-05T08:22:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T13:22:10","slug":"virginia-winery-offers-original-way-to-dispose-of-christmas-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/05\/virginia-winery-offers-original-way-to-dispose-of-christmas-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Winery Offers Original Way to Dispose of Christmas Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16216\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16216\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16216\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/peaksofotter1-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/peaksofotter1-300x170.jpg 300w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/peaksofotter1.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peaks of Otter Winery<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Are you still undecided what to do with your dried out live Christmas tree? A Virginia winery has an unusual but great solution for you.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peaksofotterwinery.com\">Peaks of Otter Winery<\/a> is located in Bedford County, Virginia and according to an ABC 13 <a href=\"http:\/\/WSET.com\">WSET.com<\/a> article, <a href=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/news\/local\/local-winerys-goats-will-help-get-rid-of-your-christmas-tree\">\u201cLocal winery&#8217;s goats will help get rid of your Christmas tree\u201d<\/a> by Elizabeth Tyree the winery is offering its neighbors the opportunity to drop their Christmas trees off. Peaks of Otter Winery has goats that enjoy nibbling on Christmas trees. Any of the branches not eaten by the goats go into a pile to decay and return to the earth. This appears to be a very environmentally good idea.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16214\" style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16214\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16214\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/peaksofotter3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"216\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winery tasting room located in Virginia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you want to take your worn out Christmas tree to Peaks of Otter Winery, my advise is to contact the winery ahead of time and also to be sure to remove all decorations from the tree. It\u2019s a great way to be a good neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago, Wine Trail Traveler visited Peaks of Otter Winery. Our <a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/virginia\/peaksofotter.php\">article<\/a> about the fun winery visit is available online.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16215\" style=\"width: 183px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16215\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16215\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/peaksofotter6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"216\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peaks of Otter wine<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Peaks of Otter Winery is a different type of winery to visit. The laid-back winery is focused on producing numerous fruit wines. One of their specialty wines is a spicy hot wine produced with hot peppers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For a fun, relaxing winery to visit, take time to travel to Peaks of Otter Winery.<\/p>\n<p>Are there any other wineries offering to dispose of old Christmas trees this year?<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<br \/>\nKathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Virginia Winery Offers Original Way to Dispose of Christmas Trees\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=16213\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A winery offers an unusual but environmentally friendly way to get get rid of an old Christmas tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[4034,1386,1441,3759],"class_list":["post-16213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-christmas-trees","tag-environment","tag-goats","tag-wineries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16213"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16221,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213\/revisions\/16221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}