A home vineyard, and in turn, a home grape farm, proves to be one of the most gratifying gardening adventures you can ever ...

Maybe you’ve dabbled in making homemade wine and now are thinking about growing your own grapes. While wine grapes are by no means a plant-it-and-forget-it crop, a small backyard vineyard is possible ...

Using mechanical pruning like above can save between 60% to 80% of labor operation costs per acre compared to manual pruning alone. (Hector Amezcua/UC Davis) Wine grape growers in California and ...

Wine grape growers in California and elsewhere face increasing labor costs and severe labor shortages, making it difficult to manage and harvest a vineyard while maintaining profitability. Growers are ...