Starting your own little vineyard can be very gratifying. We'll discuss how to trellis, train and prune your vines for the most bountiful harvests for years to come. It does take some time to get your vines up to the trellis, trained onto the wire, then pruned, but it is well worth the effort and wait. Grapes were one of the very first fruit bearing plants we put on our own little homestead and, to this day, are so very glad we did. Once you have a trellis up (check out our g

If you're looking to build a trellis for your grapes, you might be wondering which direction to go and what materials you might need to accomplish the task. I'll go over why we chose to trellis our muscadine vines using what is known as the Geneva Double Curtain or GDC, our trellis dimensions, and the materials we used. I'll also go over how to train your new muscadine vine to the trellis and how to avoid drooping vines when they are laden with fruit. Why GDC The GDC trellis

I am often asked why we bother growing sugar cane, especially when refined sugar is so inexpensive in the super markets. The easiest answer is because we enjoy growing it. Sugar Cane is easy to propagate and grow and it can act as a great privacy screen. It can be grown for chewing or juicing. The juice can be enjoyed fresh or boiled to turn to syrup. And it can be fed to your cows and goats as a great fodder. It’s so much more than just a natural sweetener and I'll show you