News & Upcoming Events
An 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 [...]
Read MoreHabitat Minnesota Homeowner Impact Pilot Study
At our planting on 6/2/2012, I had passed out a 1 page summary of the Homeowner Impact Pilot Study, since I found it so impressive, showing that stablization of peoples’ environments have dramatic benefits to their lives and indeed to their larger communities… this video, however, makes it so much more obvious: it is really [...]
Read MoreJune 2012 Update
Lots of news… First of all, we did suffer a tremendous amount of Spring frost damage, due to a too warm Feb and March, followed by 3 mornings of 22F in mid April. We lost: 4% of the 2007 planting, 20% of the 2008 planting, 40 % of the 2009 planting, and 98% of our [...]
Read MoreUpdate and Planting June 2nd 2012
This has been a very interesting and challenging Spring for us. Due to unusual warmth in Feb and March, the vines “woke up” way too soon, followed by 3 nights of 22-25 degrees F in late April. This was not good, as we may have lost all of our 450 of our 2011 plantings, and [...]
Read MoreOur first harvest was a success!
Our first harvest was a great success, thanks to all 46 of us! We removed bird netting from 750 vines, then picked a total of 2,296 pounds of Marquette grapes. We started about 10:00 am, stopped for a snack and coffee at 12:30 and completed work by 1:30. We had a delicious lunch of chile, [...]
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