Extreme Cold and Obsessing about the Vines
It’s cold for the vines but a little bit of effort and a lot of good timing makes all the difference in farming.
Category: Viticulture
Unexpected Helpers
Daniel Auteuil, Yves Montand in “Jean de Floret”. The film inspired us to start on our vineyard journey, with Gérard Depardieu’s unbridled optimism as a city dweller who inherits a farm in the French countryside. The neighbouring farmers — father and son — conspire to cheat their new city-folk neighbour out of his land. Thank goodness our neighbours Norm and Donny are quite the opposite characters!
Climate Change and Grape Growing – 1
ONE DAY LAST MAY, a beaver swam past our truck on the way to work. I was driving our workersContinue Reading
Making Hay While the Sun Shines
View from the tractor: Cecil and Sue hitch a ride in style with some world-class pinot noir
Tying Up
I’m thinking thoughts in the quietude of the vineyard. Today, we’re working on tying up vines. At this point they’veContinue Reading
Bud Break at Broken Stone
It’s Spring and we’re back with a vengeance to working in the vineyard and the winery. The lights are on,Continue Reading
Rainy Days in the Vineyard
“Never worry about things you can’t control.” Farming is about controlling everything you can and not worrying about things youContinue Reading
Making Harvest Memories 2016
Harvest is a culmination of two year’s of hard work in the vineyard. Vine commit biological resources to fruitContinue Reading
Battle of the Bindweed
Early in the County’s history, European settlers thought it might be nice to import a flowering relative of the Morning Glory.Continue Reading
How to Make It Rain
Anika waters our grape vines on a hot summer’s day
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