In his debut column with The News-Record, Chuck Blethen offers tips for residents considering starting a backyard vineyard.

I hear from experts in grape growing and harvesting to talk about how to harvest grapes by hand. This guide also looks at the best tools to use and how to store your homegrown grapes successfully.

In this month's column, author Chuck Blethen offers tips for vineyard site selection, including spending considerable time on which grapes to grow.

Consider the underestimated grape leaf. Each year, grape vines are cut back, and turn brown and woody, then emerge vivaciously fresh with green shoots in the late spring. These vines grow ...

To produce high-quality wine grapes, a soil of modest fertility is preferable, and low to moderate pH ...

On average, it takes grape vines three years to start producing fruit. Here's how local wineries take it from the vine to bottles for people to enjoy.

One California winemaker nurtures the soil from the seat of a bio-diesel tractor, harvests grapes according to the phases of the moon and views his job as letting nature take its course. Two ...

See how unique grape varieties are grown at this farm in California’s Central Valley.

3B Vineyard in Dawson moves Minnesota-grown grapes from farm to table Hollie Thompson and her family run a small agricultural gem that shines throughout Lac qui Parle County and the greater ...

Mustang Grapes to Purslane: How I found sustenance growing wild in my South Side neighborhood There are a surprising amount of opportunities to forage in San Antonio.