News & Upcoming Events
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 – [...]
Read More2013 – 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 [...]
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