News & Upcoming Events
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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