June 30, 2021: The next big undertaking was to install trellis. All our trellis material arrived June 30th and leveraged on a local contractor with a post driver mounted on an excavator to drive in all the end and middle row posts. We soon realized that this task was not going to be as easy…
Planting Vines
June 2, 2021: Our first shipment of vines from Viticulture A&M arrived on June 2, 2021. Receiving a few dozen boxes containing three thousand potted and two thousand self-rooted vines (L’Acadie Blanc and Marquette) was both exciting and overwhelming. The boxes filled up our little 10×12 shed and the race started for us to get…
Ridge Stile Park: An Icon of Wolfville Ridge
The definition of a “Stile” is a structure of steps which allows people passage through or over a fence, wall or hedgerow and prevents farm animals from doing the same. This was the historical purpose of the Ridge Stile on Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia for a very long time. It allowed cattle farmers from Gaspereau…
Sowing Cover Crop
August 30, 2020: Once the land was cleared and levelled, it was time for us to sow some cover crop. This became a bit of a rush as we were late in the season and we had to get the land ready for winter. After some research we chose a 60/40 mixture of tillage radish…
Picking Of The Rocks
August 23, 2020: Trenching to lay down the drain tile had unearthed stones, rocks and boulders that now needed to be dealt with once the ground had been levelled. The easy way for us to deal with this problem would have been to rent a stone picking machine. We did not know such a thing…
Laying Down Of The Drain Tile
August 12, 2020: One of the biggest jobs we had to tackle last year was to lay down drain tile on our 15 Acres. This has become a ritual to prepare land for vine grape growing in Nova Scotia. The saying goes: “grapes don’t like wet feet”. This essentially means that once established, vine grapes…
Growth After Plowing
July 31, 2020: After plowing, applying the required nutrition and disc harrowing the field to aerate the soil and allowing it to breath it was amazing to watch the land thrive with vegetation without us doing anything to it. By then end of summer our land had turned into beautiful lush field filled with all…
Breaking Of Ground
June 5, 2020: June 5th last year was a bit of a big day for us – as we consider this to be the day we literally broke ground. We hired services from Henry Biggs of Biggs Farms to spread 32 tons of lime on our land and then plow the land to mix in…
When It All Began
November 15, 2019: We flew to Nova Scotia in November 2019 and were out walking the land on a windy, cloudy early winter morning. Even on a day like this we were in awe of breath taking views looking down into the Gaspereau Valley. Little did we know at that time that we were standing…
Our Journey Towards Wolfridge Vineyard
June 24, 2021: Welcome to Wolfridge Vineyard website! Through this website and a series of posts, we have started to chronicle our journey towards establishing Wolfridge Vineyard. Here we intend to document all our trials and tribulations, our wins and losses, our challenges and solutions and all our learning lessons. We have chosen to share…
Wolfridge Vineyard 