Author: F. L. Write

The weather finally cooperated, and our first vineyard block is planted. The Viognier and Chardonnay babies are nestled inside their grow tubes, settling into their new environment. Bred in France, born in CA, and raised in PA—hope this works. For now, we are using steel pencil stakes and milk carton-type grow tubes. Sure looks nice…

Like Don Quixote we charged ahead and had our vines shipped. They arrived from CA today. Three pallets with 96 boxes of potted vines weighing approximately 1 ton. 419 Viognier 642 on SO4 rootstock; 800 Chardonnay 96 on 16-16C. They left on July 27th for what would be a long, hot journey by truck from…

After weeks of preparation, our first vineyard block is ready for planting. The delivery of our posts was delayed due to COVID, and now the weather isn’t cooperating. We’re stuck in a wet spell that just won’t quit Everything is ready. The line posts and vine stakes are set. There’s no rush for end posts…

Our farm has two large fields. When we moved here they were hayfields —not the kind that produce hay for livestock feed, but rather mulch hay. I wasn’t sure what mulch hay was, so I did some investigating. Mulch hay is not of a high enough quality for feeding livestock. It’s made from overgrown, weedy, or…