News & Upcoming Events
A fantastic 2012 and looking forward to Spring 2013
2012 was an exciting and challenging year for us, and we’re looking forward to a Winter of rest from our many vineyard tasks. The vineyard basically “rests” now, as the vine trunks harden for cold tolerance, concentrating solutes, thus lowering each living cell’s freezing point to -35F, in order to survive our Midwest winter. We [...]
Read MoreThe fall 2012 harvest was a success!
With the help of 28 volunteers and Board Members, we harvested 4,177 pounds of beautiful and delicious Marquette (even after what we all ate!) last Saturday, September 8. The weather was outstanding. We started pulling netting off at 9am, and picking by noon. We finished at 3:45, had a group picture (everybody had to endure [...]
Read MorePicking grapes on September 8th!
Our grapes are doing fantastically, and rapidly approaching full ripening. Our sugar content on Aug 17 was 19%, and we anticipate a harvest date of Saturday, September 8 ! We will plan to start at noon, rain or shine, and be done by 4pm. We will then all get together for a dinner and various [...]
Read MoreLost Creek Hippies Vineyard 8/18/12
Netting the vines this past weekend!
Read MoreAn Update From The Vineyard
We have had one exciting Spring and Summer! After a very warm Spring, with early budding followed by the April freeze and loss of many of our plants and vines, we have good news: Almost all of our 750 2007 – 2009 vines survived, and our crop is outstanding. Our clusters are ripening early, have [...]
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