Birch Bend Farm

Birch Bend Farm We bought some dirt. (Along with it came some water and plants.)
60 acres, family of five, enjoying new adventures in northwestern Wisconsin.

https://birchbend.farm/

06/13/2026

Garlic scapes are here!

A beautiful day to be in the vineyard. 🍇 Continuing to train the vines up the trellis…and weed-whacking, ugh.
06/13/2026

A beautiful day to be in the vineyard. 🍇 Continuing to train the vines up the trellis…and weed-whacking, ugh.

The grape vines are waking up in the vineyard and baby grapes are starting to form! 🙌 The 25 vines we planted 2 years ag...
06/13/2026

The grape vines are waking up in the vineyard and baby grapes are starting to form! 🙌
The 25 vines we planted 2 years ago have reached the top fruiting wire of the trellis, so we’re letting the baby grapes stay. The other 308 vines we planted last year are starting to take off but still need some time to focus on growth, so we’re removing the grapes as they form. Excited to see if all of the vines hit the top wire this year!

Spring….sprang…. Garlic!
04/12/2026

Spring….sprang…. Garlic!

The box from Fedco Seeds showed up late last week which signals the beginning of grafting season. This year I decided to...
03/19/2026

The box from Fedco Seeds showed up late last week which signals the beginning of grafting season. This year I decided to focus on 11 different varieties on a single rootstock to keep things simple. Between the scion wood I ordered, and some I collected at the farm, I’ll be grafting around 230 trees this year. I’ll try to get a blog post up on our website with more info sometime before month end but for now I’ll be busy with grafting at night and maple syrup on the weekends. A special thanks to Fedco for including some words of encouragement inside the box :)

Maple syrup season in full swing means splitting season is also in full swing.
03/15/2026

Maple syrup season in full swing means splitting season is also in full swing.

Harvesting scion wood from the original apple trees at the farm. We don’t know the variety but the apples from the trees...
02/16/2026

Harvesting scion wood from the original apple trees at the farm. We don’t know the variety but the apples from the trees make great cider!

Finally found time to finish bottling the rest of our cider from 2025. We’re bottle conditioning again this year but hop...
01/04/2026

Finally found time to finish bottling the rest of our cider from 2025. We’re bottle conditioning again this year but hoping to disgorge the bottles later in 2026. Still have a few blogs to write about this (on our farm website) and other things from 2025 that I’ll try to get caught up on soon!

Snow on Thanksgiving :)
11/28/2025

Snow on Thanksgiving :)

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