News & Upcoming Events
A Small but Fruitful Harvest – September 27th, 2014
Our September 27th harvest was a little bit different than previous years. Due to a record cold winter we suffered an 80-90% reduction in our grape harvest for 2014, delivering only 898 pounds to our winery. This resulted in only a gross income of $630. Of which we will donate our charities. The good news [...]
Read MoreIts That Time of Year! Upcoming Fall Harvest
Our grapes are ripening nicely, we can announce that our fall harvest event will be Saturday, September 27. We will start at 11:00 A.M. and expect things to go very quickly. Our vines (and almost every vineyard in Minnesota and Wisconsin) suffered significant damage to the “primary buds” due to the very cold Winter and [...]
Read MoreAnother Successful – and LAST Planting!
Summer has arrived here at Lost Creek Hippies Vineyard. Our newly planted Prairie Star vines are healthy and sprouting out of their grow tubes. Our young and mature Marquette vines are also very healthy and we should have a good crop in the fall of 2014. Our estimated harvest date will be Sept 27 or [...]
Read MoreFinal 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 – [...]
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