News & Upcoming Events
Fall 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 [...]
Read MoreA 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 [...]
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