JohnnyPanic
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My name is Greg. I recently left academia and more recently left behind an industry job during the pandemic. I guess the mountains were calling and I had to go. I've been lurking for about a year and digging through all of the first hand experience y'all have on offer in these forums. It's great! Thanks in retro. I think this is the one forum left on the internet without Trolls! It's quite refreshing.
Regardless, After some time brewing, making weird fruit/tea wines and becoming obsessed with wild ferments, I decided to throw in some vines on unused family property. I put in 1 acre of vines on some old strip mine/fill land. I would like to start something regenerative rather than extractive in the area.
Below I've attached a pic of my spot from April of this year before I turned under green manure I threw in last fall.. It's in KY on the VA border (that range in the background is the border) at 1850' elevation. The view is to the southwest with prevailing winds going NE. I offset the vines from S to SSW so that the wind blows striaght up the rows. There is a plenty of sunshine and a constant light breeze. I was worried about what I have come to call my 'calico soil' but the new vines seem to love it, even if my cover crop of clover is strugglin'. Within the acre the soil ranges from dark/rich to orangey clay to sandy loam, with rock throughout. That's even deep ripping to remove boulders, some stone crushing, and subsoiling, mixing, and ammending per extension office guildlines.
I also attached a pic of Me after a hard day's crushin'.
Anyways, Wish me luck I guess? I look forward to learning and leaning on y'all for vine growing know how.
Best,
Greg
Regardless, After some time brewing, making weird fruit/tea wines and becoming obsessed with wild ferments, I decided to throw in some vines on unused family property. I put in 1 acre of vines on some old strip mine/fill land. I would like to start something regenerative rather than extractive in the area.
Below I've attached a pic of my spot from April of this year before I turned under green manure I threw in last fall.. It's in KY on the VA border (that range in the background is the border) at 1850' elevation. The view is to the southwest with prevailing winds going NE. I offset the vines from S to SSW so that the wind blows striaght up the rows. There is a plenty of sunshine and a constant light breeze. I was worried about what I have come to call my 'calico soil' but the new vines seem to love it, even if my cover crop of clover is strugglin'. Within the acre the soil ranges from dark/rich to orangey clay to sandy loam, with rock throughout. That's even deep ripping to remove boulders, some stone crushing, and subsoiling, mixing, and ammending per extension office guildlines.
I also attached a pic of Me after a hard day's crushin'.
Anyways, Wish me luck I guess? I look forward to learning and leaning on y'all for vine growing know how.
Best,
Greg
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