A Small but Fruitful Harvest – September 27th, 2014
Our September 27th harvest was a little bit different than previous years. Due to a record cold winter we suffered an 80-90% reduction in our grape harvest for 2014, delivering only 898 pounds to our winery. This resulted in only a gross income of $630. Of which we will donate our charities. The good news [...]
Its That Time of Year! Upcoming Fall Harvest
Our grapes are ripening nicely, we can announce that our fall harvest event will be Saturday, September 27. We will start at 11:00 A.M. and expect things to go very quickly. Our vines (and almost every vineyard in Minnesota and Wisconsin) suffered significant damage to the “primary buds” due to the very cold Winter and [...]
Another Successful – and LAST Planting!
Summer has arrived here at Lost Creek Hippies Vineyard. Our newly planted Prairie Star vines are healthy and sprouting out of their grow tubes. Our young and mature Marquette vines are also very healthy and we should have a good crop in the fall of 2014. Our estimated harvest date will be Sept 27 or [...]
Final Planting at Lost Creek Hippies Vineyard!
Our final planting of Lost Creek Hippies Vineyard was on Saturday May 31. Thanks to 30 outstanding volunteers this final planting was entirely successful. We gently planted 320 Prairie Star vines, thus completing our vineyard. We now have approximately 1100 Marquette and 570 Prairie Star vines! They will grow and mature slowly and gradually over [...]
Happy Spring – Planting is just around the Corner!
Happy Spring! This cool weather is great for our vines, and we expect a good year for our grapes. Jim and Linda recently made it down to the vineyard only to find 2 feet of snow still on the ground! ½ of the vines are pruned and ready to start growing, and best of all – [...]
2013 – A Recap of a great year on the vineyard!
A recap of a fantastic year at the vineyard: In May we removed 142 frost-destroyed old vines and replanted new ones. On June 1 we planted another 250 new Marquette vines. We trimmed, mowed, sprayed, and tended our 580 productive vines all Summer On September 7th we harvested 5,035 pounds of beautiful Marquette grapes, delivering [...]
A wet and exciting fall picking is complete!
We had an exciting (due to the rain) ending to our Saturday, September 28 harvest, with 36 hard-working volunteers we ere able to pick 5,035 pounds of Marquette grapes in 3 hours! This crop was taken from 582 maturing vines, working out to 8.7 pounds of grapes / vine. We had 725 original vines planted [...]
Fall Picking is Just Around the Corner!
Great News! Our grapes are doing well, we anticipate 5,000 – 6,000 pounds of delicious Marquette grapes, which will result in our largest donations ever to our 3 outstanding Charities: Habitat for Humanity (Minnesota) Neighborhood Involvement Program Central Asia Institute Our Harvest will start about 11:00 A.M. on Saturday, September 28. Plan to meet us [...]
Another successful planting for June 2013
Planting on Saturday, June 1 was a great success, in many ways. We successfully introduced 260 new Marquette vines into our vineyard, starting about 11 A.M. and finished by 1:30 P.M. It went by fast, as we were replanting vines that had died due to last years abnormal warmth followed by an April freeze. We [...]
Spring and planting season are just around the corner!
Happy Spring! This cool weather is great for our vines, and we expect a good year for our grapes. We are planting on Saturday June 1, starting between 11 A.M. and Noon. We will start in this staggered fashion so that we can give everyone a good in service as to the technique, but there [...]