Our Vineyard Story - A Dream Meets Reality
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 มิ.ย. 2017
- This is the story of our vineyard... so far. They say it's easy to make a small fortune by planting a vineyard... you just need to start out with a large fortune.
GENERAL SPECS:
19 Rows, 100 feet long
1200 foot elevation, Zone 5b
North Quabbin Region, Massachusetts
New England USA
We planted the top half in 2009 and the bottom half in 2010. We are a no-spray property (not 'certified organic' officially, but we don't put anything on our plants that we wouldn't eat.)
We started with 9 varietals of grapes and after several failed to produce fruit or became overrun with disease, we started pulling vines in 2013. We are slowly replacing our failed grapevines with heirloom dwarf apple trees trained in an espalier style on the existing trellis infrastructure. We live in apple country. Probably should have started there!
Here's an old school timelapse of the May 1, 2010 planting party. It was shot on an actual video tape:
• Planting Grape Vines f...
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Music used with permission from Andrew Applepie.
www.andrewapplepie.com
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Thanks for watching!
Today is my awesome wife's birthday! Happy Birthday, Honey!
I just want to say that whenever you upload videos I'm always so excited to click on it. Your positive attitude is contagious and I hope your apple trees are prosperous!!!
I just have 3 grapes tree now, and i hope one day i have hundred of grapes trees.
A new chapter is starting in my life, I am almost 75 years old.
I seriously love your videos, its like a well produced documentary... Great editing, great angles, you put in wonderful work, I just can't stop watching!
This is exactly what I want to do! It sucks to see those grapes go away but Apple's are good too. Adapt and overcome. Thank you for posting, it's one of my dreams to get a small vineyard going, and then grow from there
Happy Birthday Mrs. Vino Farm! Very nice story, Jim. Upbeat and positive. Thanks for the vids!
Good keep smiling and hard work
with failure comes success, every time we learn, we improve, I have planted many varieties of plants, not all work but I evolve and learn and in the end I have succeeded in growing a lot of my own food on my own land, that is priceless, thumbs up
When I grow up - I'm 65- I want to be like you and living in such a beautiful place in MA. Congratulations to you for having a wife you love so much. By the way, my two Flow Hives still don't have honey, they are too young I guess, the packs of bees came in last May. So, here I am waiting for your videos and learning about those things I love. One more last commentary, I've already planted grapes without seeds, I'll tell you in October -we, here in Spain, harvest grapes in that time. Hugs to every one in the channel.
i really know nothing about farming but I love watching your videos 😄 so excited to keep seeing how the farm changes over the years and listening to your thoughts :)
BEAUTIFUL VINEYARD!🌻
Ciao Vino Farm, I love your passion, tenacity, love for vines, wine, apples, in New England is very challenging to grow grapes. I am sure backpacking around Europe, Tuscany, and in SanGimignano ( Vernaccia )and vicinity you learned a lot, a kind suggestion, have you researched the wine growing regions of the world, specifically Eastern Europe that might have some regions very similar soil, climate condition that you have, one comes to mind is Georgia. I know it's time-consuming and can be expensive, but there are lots of wine people can help with remedies for your dream, wish all my best, Tanti AUGURI, Sam the Wineman.
If you run into problems in the future try planting pest repelling plants in between the grapevines/ apples. Things like catnip, chamomile and tansy can do miracles.
I really loved your story and your honesty in sharing it. It was too sad for me to know that at the end you have to replace your crops....
This video and your story is very inspiring. Thank you.
Nice to hear the honesty in failure. I am facing the same, it is not easy if you were not born to this and it is hard work (but rewarding). I live in zone 5, planted two hundred fruit trees, mostly apple. Also grapes. I am not planning organic, but have not had to use pesticides yet. If I have to I will rather than lose my plants. Like your video!
Once again, thanks for taking us along Jim. The ever increasing diversity of the channel is terrific.
happy Birthday Mrs Vino Farm I hope you have had a very nice day. Your growing food i love
Amazing story! Thanks for sharing.