News & Upcoming Events
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 [...]
Read MoreFinal 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 [...]
Read MoreHappy 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 [...]
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