Misty Creek Farm & Vineyards

Season's Greetings to all our loyal blog followers and best wishes for a happy and prosperous 2011.
We've been closed during Christmas and New Years to take some family time. The break has been wonderful!
Cutting out dead canes, placing new ones and pruning is coming along just fine. We've replaced several broken end posts this year (three still left to do) which is very unusual. With all the torrential rains, we've also experienced some erosion in the...

We had our first snow on December 4th, which was also our Christmas Open House. The snows came in bands and by the end we had about an inch accumulated. Our wines at Yadkin Valley Wine Company are bubbling right along and we received the ten Hungarian...

Whoopie! The masons started on our outdoor fireplace today and it should be finished within about 3 weeks. They made good progress, with the outside block up to about seven feet and the firebrick flooring placement completed. Just in time, too, because...

Temperature here: 45 degrees with gusts up to 47 miles an hour. Tonight's low is 26 degrees, with tomorrow's high hovering somewhere around 45 degrees. This is warm compared to what we'll experience in January. Ha!
Today we retrieved the remaning harvest bins from the crush pad and they are stored on our trailer until the ground dries up enough to get back to the storage area. In the meantime, we have begun to cut out dead wood in preparation for laying down new...