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