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…
Month: October 2021
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…
Wolfridge Vineyard 