News & Upcoming Events
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 [...]
Read MoreA 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 [...]
Read MoreFall 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 [...]
Read MoreAnother 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 [...]
Read MoreSpring 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 [...]
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