AAFC Bud Hardiness: Report 4

This is the fourth report of the season from December 20 and 21 prepared by Jeff Franklin and Dr. Harrison Wright. You can find the information in the following link:

• Report 4 (December 20 – 21 2021): or the direct hyperlink https://www.perennia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Bud-hardiness-report-4-Dec-20-21-2021.pdf

Join us at the Cool Climate Webinar sessions

Here we are starting a new year full of excitement! January 2022 brings From Grapes to Wines Cool Climate webinars back!

Save the dates for the first three sessions on January 13, January 17 and January 20, 2022. Find more information and registration links as follows:

• Session 1: Impact of sustainable management systems on growth, yield, and fruit quality of grapevines
• Session 2: Vine Pruning in cool climate viticulture: principles and techniques for good pruning practices in prevention and management of trunk diseases
• Session 3: Identification of four distinct S. cerevisiae wine yeast populations from British Columbia’s Okanagan Wine Region

Here is some extra information on these sessions for you to decide if you’d like to join us: 

Best Practices sessions 2021

Season 2021 passed quite fast and throughout the season 6 Best Practices sessions were hosted. We covered important topics such the weather conditions, vineyard practices, regional updates, and growers’ discussions.

In this publication, you’ll find the 6 sessions hosted in 2021, from the beginning of the season until last one just a couple of weeks ago.

We’d like to thank to all the speakers and contributors. Without their support and help, these sessions wouldn’t be possible.

Best practices: session 6

On Thursday December 9, we had the sixth session of the season and the recording is now available.

AAFC Bud Hardiness: Report 3

This is the third report of the season from December 6 and 7 prepared by Jeff Franklin and Dr. Harrison Wright. You can find the information in the following link:

• Report 3 (December 6 – 7 2021): or the direct hyperlink https://www.perennia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Bud-hardiness-report-3-Dec-6-7-2021.pdf

From Grapes to Wines: Cool Climate Webinars 2022

Perennia Food and Agriculture Inc. proudly presents the coolest webinar series of this winter! Neslihan Ivit, Winemaking & Innovation Specialist, and Francisco Diez, Viticulture Specialist, will be hosting 5 sessions about grape and wine growing in cool climate regions, as in the case of Nova Scotia.

Experts in their fields, speakers from Ontario, British Columbia, Germany, Italy and South Africa will be joining us to share their research and experiences.

Best Practices Session 6

The season 2021 is done, or almost done in case of the growers who are hanging grapes for ice wine. It was an interesting season which passed quite fast. After all the hard work, now it’s time to see the highlights in terms of climatic conditions and how it was overall. How was it compared to the other years? Or in terms of grape ripeness, was it possible to see differences between previous seasons? This is only focus of this last practices session of the year!