Explore Four Elements in Kenton Erwin’s Life:

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Wine and Grapes

Check out the award-winning Epona wines! Kenton’s been making wine since 1995, and has won a Double Gold medal, two Gold medals, and numerous Silver medals in the Seattle Wine Awards (WA’s largest professional wine competition). Also the People’s Choice winner at Vancouver’s Craft Wine Fest. And the wine prices are very reasonable.

He grows modern grape varieties (check out his recently-published 4th edition of Modern Grapes for Cool Climates, on Amazon). Kenton is one of the PacNorthwest’s leading experts on selecting and growing modern grapes, which are much more-sustainable than European winegrapes.

To be added to the Epona email wine list (there’s never an obligation to buy anything, and your email address will be kept confidential), please email Kenton at [email protected] .

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Certified Organic Master Gardener

Kenton recently completed a four-month course at Gaia College in British Columbia, to become a certified OMG. This entailed 15 long sets of readings, class discussions, 10 tests (with 100% score required), and 3 major field project/research papers with bibliography. He received a 99-point grade in the course.

He practices mostly-organic gardening and encourages others to act locally, to try to address the adverse impacts of climate change and overpopulation.

He’s leading a project to plant replacement trees and shrubs in a half-mile-long strip of his neighborhood’s garden beds. This is being done at no cost to the HOA or homeowners–all funded by private donations, saving the neighborhood about $20,000 in cost if it had used a professional nursery.

Growing, canning, and giving away produce are a fun part of his summers.

Kenton’s available for consulting on a wide variety of plant-growing issues.

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Kenton’s Legal Career

Kenton obtained both engineering (magna cum laude) and law degrees from Vanderbilt, then worked for 40 years in corporate law, making significant achievements in legal data management, legal cost reductions, novel business structures, and patent infringement litigation risk management.

He worked for large and small companies, including Chevron (as an engineer), Dow Chemical, Enron, The Williams Companies, FEI Corp, and VTech, serving as Staff Counsel, Assistant General Counsel, General Counsel, and Vice President.

Significant milestones include: Helped develop the nation’s second nationwide fiber optic network; invented a new structure for gas-fired power plants to share fuel supply; developed several cogeneration power plants; was the lead attorney for the nation’s first full-requirements power supply agreement for a major port, by an independent power producer; supported the acquisitions of companies and oil and gas reserves; worked on wind power projects; created a novel contract administration system; greatly reduced his company’s settlements in alleged patent infringements, through the invention of a legal risk analysis process related specifically to alleged patent infringement.