Lost Creek Hippies Vineyard

03/19/2026

Spring is in the air at Lost Creek Hippies Vineyard!
We’re happy to share our Spring 2026 update, including orchard news, charity giving, and plans for this year’s Fun(d)raising Party. Thank you to all of you who continue to support our efforts and help us spread a little more goodness in the world.

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Spring is once again in the air at Lost Creek Hippies Vineyard. While we currently have 18 inches of fresh snow on the ground, we expect it to melt soon, allowing us to begin pruning our apple trees in the coming weeks.

11/29/2025

What an incredible day we had at the Lost Creek Hippies Vineyard 9th Annual Fun(d)Raising Party! ❤️🍇
Great music, great food, great friends — and an amazing amount raised for our charities.
We’ve put together a full recap (with stories and donation details).
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We enjoyed wine, beer, and soft drinks, along with tasty appetizers, a hearty pork stew, and a spread of desserts (including my signature apple–cranberry–walnut bars).

08/08/2025

Join us for our 9th Annual FUN(d) raising party at our farm and apple orchid in Pepin Wisconsin on Saturday September 13! Click the link below for more details.

Summer always seems to fly by—and somehow, it feels like it speeds up a little more each year. That’s not exactly ideal, especially when we’re trying to make time to get together with our three daughters, their families, and friends both near and far. Throw in live music events, caring for our...

04/23/2025

Spring is again in the air at Lost Creek Hippies Vineyard!

We again had a lot milder Winter this year, with not much snow and warmer temps. We could easily get used to this! As usual, keeping up with pruning the apple trees, fertilizing, disease spraying, and mowing is keeping us busy. Our orchard has grown to 35 trees, 4 of which are producing apples which we donate to the Pepin Schools for a Fall community event.

Our 2 giant MacIntosh apple trees appear to be on their last legs, but they have an incredible ability to produce “water sprouts” ( vertical shoots which produce no apples), and pruning them is no small task, and reaching up to prune atop a 12 foot ladder seems higher every year! Our fenced in orchard has 34 Honeycrisp trees, 1-4 years old, and a few will produce some apples this year, so we’re excited.

We are already looking forward to our 10th Annual Fun(d) Raising Party on Saturday, September 13

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10/20/2024

Happy Fall to everyone! We are currently having the type of weather, 60-75F days and 55F nights, that we would like to see continue until next May. Living in Minnesota, however, we always know that the evil cold snap / blizzard can be anytime, so …. Enjoy it!
Our orchard apple harvest only took us 2 hours, with 1250 mainly MacIntosh apples. We donated them to the Pepin School District, and they distributed then in 75 bags at a community event on October 7. We hope someday to have a harvest event, and, no doubt, a Party!

Our Lost Creek Hippies Vineyard 9th Annual Fun(d) Raising Party on Saturday, September 14 was a success...
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Happy Fall to everyone! We are currently having the type of weather, 60-75F days and 55F nights, that we would like to see continue until next May. Living in Minnesota, however, we always know that the evil cold snap / blizzard can be anytime, so …. Enjoy it!

07/30/2024

9th Annual FUN(d) Raising Party is Coming Soon! Hope to see you all there!

Happy Summer 2024 to all of you!

We are very pleased to be continuing our 8th Annual Fund(d) Raising Party on Saturday, September 14 at our farm and Apple Orchard in Pepin, Wisconsin. Your friends and family are most welcome to join you. We will enjoy meeting them. Children of all sizes are welcome ( we’ve got a new play area for the really little ones! ).

The party will start at 1:00 P.M., with an afternoon of various beverages and snacks. We also will again have corn hole games, 2 boards and several other semi-challenging but always fun games. We will be serving dinner at 5:30 P.M., and all can hang out into the evening, or if you prefer to stay over (we will find a place for you!).

If the urge overwhelms you, bring a small snack or dessert to share…. That is so nice if it works for you 😀
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04/28/2024

Spring is again in the air at Lost Creek Hippies Vineyard!

After a pleasantly mild Winter, Spring is arriving with a vengeance, as usual. We’re presently struggling to keep up with pruning and fertilizing. It would be easier if we weren’t constantly going away to visit family and friends, but that’s life! Our 28 trees in our secured orchard area remain alive and sprouting, but our two giant MacIntosh apple trees appear to be retiring, victims of age and perhaps too aggressive top-trimming… that’s a whole long discussion we can have. We’re planting about 8 more Honeycrisp trees in May... [Read More..]

After a pleasantly mild Winter, Spring is arriving with a vengeance, as usual. We’re presently struggling to keep up with pruning and fertilizing. It would be easier if we weren’t constantly going away to visit family and friends, but that’s life! Our 28 trees in our secured orchard area remai...

11/09/2023

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Happy Fall to all!

Finally, we seem to be slowing down a bit. Our 4 established McIntosh apple trees produced several hundred apples, and 37 Honeycrisp newer plantings are growing, slowly. We’re expecting them to become productive in another 2-3 years… we’ve learned to be very patient.

On a much happier note, our 7th Annual Fun(d) Raising Party on Saturday, September 9 was really enjoyable for us and the 50+ attendees. So many warm, caring, fun, and interesting people were able to attend, including several who had not been at one of our prior events ( plantings, harvests, Fun(d) Raising parties ). Meeting and chatting with so many positive people was a joy for us.........[Read More]

Finally, we seem to be slowing down a bit. Our 4 established McIntosh apple trees produced several hundred apples, and 37 Honeycrisp newer plantings are growing, slowly. We’re expecting them to become productive in another 2-3 years… we’ve learned to be very patient.

07/23/2023

Happy Summer 2023 to all of you!

We are very pleased to be continuing our 8th Annual Fund(d) Raising Party on Saturday, September 9 at our farm and Apple Orchard in Pepin, Wisconsin. Your friends and family are most welcome to join you. We will enjoy meeting them. Children of all sizes are welcome ( we’ve got a new play area for the really little ones! ).
The party will start at 1:00 P.M., with an afternoon of various beverages and snacks. We also will again have corn hole games, 2 boards and several other semi-challenging but always fun games. We will be serving dinner at 5:30 P.M., and all can hang out into the evening, or if you prefer to stay over (we will find a place you you!).
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We are very pleased to be continuing our 8th Annual Fund(d) Raising Party on Saturday, September 9 at our farm and Apple Orchard in Pepin, Wisconsin. Your friends and family are most welcome to join you. We will enjoy meeting them. Children of all sizes are welcome ( we’ve got a new play area for ...

05/18/2023

It feels like Spring at Lost Creek Vineyards and Summer is around the corner! We have continued to make gradual progress in our Apple Orchard. The orchard remains secured from the predations of deer and rabbits, with 9-10 foot high barbed wire fence, Irish Spring soap in socks, and twirling old CDs. We’re planting another 10 or so Honeycrisp trees in a few weeks, and keeping all the other 28 properly tended and free from insects and other predators.

We are looking forward to seeing you at our Annual Fall Fun(d) Raising Party starting at 1:00 P.M. on Saturday, September 9. This will be another fun-filled afternoon of conversation, fun games, drinks and dinner. You will also be taking home a bottle of our Altered States Apple Wine. Plan now to join us, and bring family and friends who are like minded in wanting to help make the world a better place for all...

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It feels like Spring at Lost Creek Vineyards and Summer is around the corner! We have continued to make gradual progress in our Apple Orchard. The orchard remains secured from the predations of deer and rabbits, with 9-10 foot high barbed wire fence, Irish Spring soap in socks, and twirling old CDs....

10/27/2022

Happy Fall to all you wonderful followers of Lost Creek Hippies Vineyard. We are in Wisconsin and Minnesota enjoying a gorgeous Fall so far, but we are realists: the cold will come and we’ll all wonder why we still live here!
Our 7th Annual Fall Fun(d) Raising Party on Saturday, September 10 was both great fun and successful in helping out our 3 great charities.
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