Fall 2026
Land secured, soil testing begins
Site selected on the Avalon Peninsula. First round of soil sampling sent out to check pH, drainage and nutrient baseline before any amendment work starts.
In progressWhy here, why this
01 / The Idea
"The barrens already grow wild blueberry and partridgeberry. The question was never whether the land could do it — it was whether we could do it deliberately."
Newfoundland's acidic, well-drained soil and long cool summers are close to ideal for lowbush and highbush blueberry, and increasingly viable for cold-hardy raspberry cultivars bred for short seasons.
The grape is the harder bet — a small block of cold-climate varieties, chosen for their track record in similarly short, damp growing seasons elsewhere in Atlantic Canada and the northern US.
Nothing here is planted yet. What follows is the actual sequence: land assessment, soil amendment, and the first rows going in — documented as it happens, not written up after the fact.