Our property has a quarter-acre bowl that is open to the lake and south facing, it bares off from snow weeks before the rest of the property and is probably nearly a zone 4 microclimate. I have a mini-excavator and I'm thinking of terracing that area if I were to get serious. Probably get 3-4...
I have made a couple batches of wine using saskatoons (serviceberry), have a huckleberry wine clearing in a carboy, and have just picked a 5-gallon bucket of saskatoons and am ready to start the next batch. I would really like to grow some grapes for making wine, but in zone-3 we are very...