08/29/2026
Our vineyards are transitioning to organic, but one thing has been part of our farming from the beginning: we don’t use insecticides.
So finding this Pandorus sphinx moth caterpillar hanging out in the vines is great to see. It might eat a few grape leaves, and that’s okay. There’s room for it here.
We want our vineyards to be living places. Grapevines growing alongside a living ground cover. Healthy, active soil beneath our feet. Insects, birds, pollinators, fungi and all the other life that makes up an ecosystem. The goal isn’t to separate agriculture from nature. It’s to create a farm where they can thrive together.
There’s something especially fitting about that with the grapes we grow. They carry ancestry from wild North American grape species that have been growing on this continent for a very long time. They’re part of that story, too.
And really, it can be said pretty simply: Door County is a wine growing region, and we grow amazing wine grapes here. Grapes that express our soils, our climate and our place, allowing us to make wines that are distinctly Door County.
We want healthy vines growing in living soil, surrounded by a living vineyard. And sometimes that means sharing a few leaves with a really cool caterpillar. 🐛🍇🌱
