Growing your own grapes can be a fun project, once you understand how to train and prune your vines. If you’ve grown your own table grapes, you will notice that they don’t look quite the same as the ...

Some fruits just aren't worth growing from seed. It can take these plants years to grow and be ready to harvest, or they can produce fruits that aren't true to type, meaning they won't be the same as ...

Grapes are a fun and healthy snack and can grow well in Iowa. Experts have recommendations about which grape varieties to grow and offer best practices for harvesting and producing. They're ...

Spring will be here before you know it, and we are all looking forward to getting busy in our fields and gardens. This year you might want to consider starting a backyard vineyard or a small 1- to ...

Grape breeding PhD student Laise Moreira collects flower tissue for analyzing sex trait in grapevine as part of the VitisGen2 project at the University of Minnesota Horticultural Research Center in ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Ah, those winding roads, those Columbia River Gorge vistas, those stop-off spots that remind us of our Northwest history and roots. Imagine all that, plus the taste of a special ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the people, business and politics of the wine industry. Labor of love. At first that’s how I thought it would feel ...

Blue Heron Vineyards, a mile west of Roseburg, Ore., was established in 2010 when Hal and Vicki Westbrook decided to transition from cattle to wine grapes. ROSEBURG, Ore. — Hal and Vicki Westbrook ...