Foothill Wine Grape Growing

In 2005 the Amador County Crop Report listed a total of 3,874 harvested acres of wine grapes in Amador County, with an average production of 3.4 tons/acres.

The 2005 El Dorado County Crop Report listed a total of 1,906 producing acres of wine grapes with an average of 2.44 tons/acre. for both Amador and El Dorado counties, wine grapes are the leading agricultural crop produced (other than timber and livestock) in both acreage and total value.

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Lynn Wunderlich, Farm Advisor, UC Cooperative Extension, El Dorado and Amador Counties, works with wine grape growers to:

• get information backed by campus-based research specialists out to the growers

• search out practical research-based solutions to a wide variety of problems including; better ways to manage pests, marketing approaches and more

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**Please take note: The UC Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor works with commercial wine grape growers. If you are a backyard grower or interested in starting a backyard family vineyard and you live in El Dorado County, please contact the El Dorado County Master Gardeners at 530-621-5512.