trips



The vineyard or vines, has 30 acres of 7 varieties of grapes. Dry river vineyard, we visited the vineyard as part of our topic ' climate and agriculture' and we enoyed it here is some facts about our time in the vineyard and what we saw.


 * Dry river vineyard of Martinborough, has ways of telling red wine grapes from white wine grapes, by putting a white strip down the red wine grapes row, so the sun will reflect up onto the red wine grapes.

on or not.
 * At the end of each row there is a rose bush, this is so you know when there is going to be some mildew, and if they need to turn the wind machine


 * the workers put yeast in the grape juice and the yeast eats the sugar in grape juice and converts it to alcohol.


 * This was also one of the farms that we visited.
 * The net over all of the apples at the orchards costed 2.2million dollars and they are only half way through putting it up!!!
 * In each box that the workers pack there is 100 apples?
 * JR"S orchard is only payed 4 times a year!!
 * On some of the boxes there is a ecco sign this stands for east coast combined orchards!
 * Ats JR"S orchards 90 hecteres of his land is planted with apple trees, and only 65 hecteres is netted?
 * The workers at JRS are not allowed to wear jewellerey to prevent glass from getting into the cartons.