The type of grape you grow depends on your climate and your taste. Are you looking for dessert grapes? Or perhaps you want to experiment with wine making, in which case the variety you choose will ...

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 ...

VALMEYER, Ill. | The few rows of grapes planted about six years ago near the high school's greenhouse in this southern Illinois town used to give Howard Heavner and his students fits. The agriculture ...

People plant grapevines in their backyards to get a rural aesthetic or for the love of wine itself, or even just for the science of it all. By Alyson Krueger Craig Lemoine had a concrete slab in his ...

Flipping a bucket upside down beneath one of the few shade trees near his newest vineyard, Jack Hull sat down and took a rare break. The extremely high temperatures make labor-intensive vineyard ...

The American Heartland has experienced a boom in wineries over the last three decades. But with U.S. wine sales trending down ...