About the Project

For the past three years, students worked nearly 80 days and hundreds of hours over the summer months to build the vineyard and today members of the community and local vineyard owners routinely compliment the work by the students by saying, “the vineyard looks great!” Now, the vineyard is almost complete and is being managed by student summer-interns, occasional class visits, and community volunteers. The vineyard will have its first harvest in the fall of 2020 providing scholarships to students entering college majoring in viticulture/agriculture. The next step and the purpose of this grant is to enhance the wildlife habitat of the Delta Education Vineyard and surrounding properties and to provide wildlife education for students and community members. The Delta Education Vineyard, which is a 10-minute walk from school has several undeveloped properties allowing access for wildlife habitat improvement: 5 acres just to the south, 2 acres just to the west, 4 acres to the north, and another 10 acres about a ½ mile to the north.