Joe Real
Born in the Philippines with a passion for growing plants, Joe began planting and appreciating plants at 4 years old. All grown up and in the USA,
Joe found himself tinkering with various ways of growing plants in a tiny yard. His solutions to the space limitation included grafting together
more than 101 citrus cultivars into one tree, which produces fruit year round.  His many multi-multi-grafted fruit trees include 48-n-1 plum,
similarly intense apples, blood oranges, pears, persimmons, cherries and others.  Joe typically maintains 500 or so fruiting cultivars at a time in
a 725 square feet portion of his yard.  Practically no fruits from his yard are wasted as he turns any excess into award winning fruit wines.
Joe aims to make 500 kinds of fruit wines, and to date has managed to make about 250 different kinds of fruit wines to date. He started out
to make vinegar during his 6th grade but it turned into good tasting and very stable fruit wine instead. Ever since, he has been passionately
making fruit wine for the past 35 years. With outstanding experience in fruit growing and excellent background in the sciences, he is able to
turn various kinds of fruits into exotic wines.  Last year, he entered the California State Fair Home Wine Competition for the first time and
got four double gold medals, twelve silvers, three bronzes and two honorable mentions for his various kinds of fruit wines.

Joe is the owner of JKJ Real Enterprises, a general consulting business for software, agriculture, and specialty wines. Joe is also the CEO of
Healthier Farms, LLC, manufacturer of various organic and conventional products for agriculture and horticulture.  He is also working as Vice
President of Software Research and Development at ACHWorks ( www.ACHWorks.com), an electronic payment service software company that
he founded and co-owns. Joe is currently helping establish a few commercial wineries that plan to specialize in exotic fruit wines. Joe obtained
his bachelors of science in Agricultural Engineering at the University of the Philippines and MS in Quantitative Agronomy was earned at UC,
Davis. Joe has authored/co-authored more than 25 international scientific publications in various disciplines and has received numerous national
and international awards of academic excellence in research and educational software. He has also been recently featured in Sacramento News
and Review (http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1341652).