2025 Farm Update

The Aznoe Farm is up and running in 2025! This year we focused on storage crops, primarily winter squash, onions, and garlic, and our high tunnel that produced an abundant crop of green beans, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, and melons. We are still enjoying the harvest now and will continue until the end of the season. Much of our storage crops will be delivered to the Door County Food Pantry Coalition next month to be distributed among the food pantries throughout Door County. We are all excited about this relationship and making plans to expand this partnership in 2026!

At our vineyard, we expect a harvest of 2,000 to 3,000 pounds brought in the second week of October! Netting and fencing are currently installed to keep pests away until harvest. Rose chafers continue to present our biggest challenge. We fought them again this June and July with a considerable amount of success. Fungal diseases are usually ranked as the most difficult thing to control with organic management, and they give us a fight too, especially in a rainy season like 2025. But we are heartened by the managing disease pressure and anticipate making nearly 1,000 bottles of wine this fall. Look out for social media posting for harvest days in October!

 

The chestnut nursery grew this year with about 1,800 trees in the ground that will be ready to harvest winter of 2027. We are developing this business to supply our own orchards and to help pay for our chestnut research orchard where we continue the search for great chestnut genetics for northern growers. Ultimately our plan is to identify some outstanding trees for these climates and share the genetics through our nursery so that Gathering Ground and other growers can add to the diversity of their farms and homesteads.

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