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• Choose a Fruit - Have a family gathering and decide what fruit you will use to make the wine. Wine can be made out of any fruit, not just grapes - berries, apples, peaches, even oranges can produce a wine. (Of course, there are root wines and flower wines and wines made from coffee, etc.) Try to choose a fruit that grows locally, but that is not necessary.
  
  
• Plan a Family Outing to Collect the Fruit - Make a day of gathering the fruit. You have choosen a fruit, now you need to collect it. Does it grow wild? Locate a growing area, drive out with a picnic lunch and pick the fruit. Is the fruite grown commercially? Arrange with an orchard or farmer to allow you to harvest some of the ripe fruit, again Making a day of it.
  
  
  • If the fruit you have chosen is not grown locally, then check your local Farmer's Market. And, if that is not an option, arrange with your local grocery store to pick-up the fruit you have decided on. It can be fun to take the kids into the back of the store to collect your harvest.
  
  
• Pressing the Fruit - Now that you have gathered your chosen fruit and washed it, you need to get all the juice out of it that you can. There are different way to get juice out of fruit - wine presses, apple presses, juicers, blenders, crushing with your feet... Here is a chance for you and your children to be playful. Don't worry about waste and dropped fruit - there is going to be some mess no matter you do. Just have fun.
  
  
• Fermenting the Juice - Here is an opportunity to stress the importance of hygiene. You do not want your potential wine to be contaminated. Sterilizing the cooking pots, bottles, washing hands, etc. all will help prevent the mixing of wild yeast into your fruit juices. The actual fermentation process starts when you add the yeast, and some sugar, perhaps. This mixture will be set aside for several days. Sometimes you let the fruit juice ferment in the bottle and sometimes you let it ferment in larger vessel to be bottled later.
  
  
• Enjoying your Wine - There are many different recipes for wine. (Information about wine recipes can be found below.) Follow the recipe for your particular fruit and in a few weeks you will be ready to enjoy your wine. Depending upon your family traditions and the age of your children, you may want to reserve some of the unfermented fruit juice for those children who are not ready to sample wine containing alcohol. Again you can make the opening of the first bottle a special occasion. Regards the taste of your wine - well, hopefully it will be good, but even if it causes everyone to make a face, that's okay, it just increases the opportunity for humor.

1. Fruit wines: raspberry, blackberry, strawberry, grape, plum, cherry.
2. Dried fruit wines: currant, apricot, date, sultana.
3. Stewed fruit wines: elderberry, prune, raisin, crab-apple, loganberry.
4. Root wines: parsnip, potato, sugar-beet, beetroot.
5. Other vegetables: celery, runner beans, pea-shuck, carrot.
6. Flower and sugar wines: clover, dandelion, elder-flower.

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