Alex Wolf
Alex Wolf is a certified permaculture designer and student of viticulture at Washington State University. After twelve years in software development and project management at Microsoft in Redmond, he left the corporate world in 2011 and moved with his wife and daughter to the San Juan Islands. There, he immersed himself in permaculture and sustainable landscape design, developing a particular passion for fruiting plants and refining his focus to edible, permaculture-inspired landscapes.

Growing Wine Grapes in Seattle?

Part 2: Variety and rootstock I saw a picture of my daughter yesterday. She was 11 at the time, standing proud as a docent for the WSU Master Gardeners’ garden tour. Her badge was official, but the smile was even more so — the second biggest and proudest I’ve ever...

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Oct 29, 2025

Backyard Wine Country: Can Seattle Grow Great Grapes?

Part I: Climate and Site Selection Growing wine grapes west of the Cascades isn’t for the faint of heart. The rain comes hard, the summers vanish in a blink, and the soil won’t give you an inch unless you’ve read it like scripture. But this isn’t surrender — this is...

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Oct 7, 2025

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