Growing their own

摘要

It was May 20, with a little more than a week to go before Youngblood Vineyard was scheduled to open on Memorial Day weekend. Co-owners Jessica and David Youngblood had been working most of the day in the mad scramble to prepare, and they would be working most of the coming days until everything was ready."We don't feel ready yet, but we will be," Jessica said. There was a lot to do at the vineyard and outdoor winery in Ray, Michigan, about a 35-minute drive north of Detroit. With help from their three teenage children, they had to mow the mustard plantsand move giant tree trunks in the parking lot, set up tables for extra seating and a dance floor and tent for a high school prom, stack lumber in stylish racks near the new pizza oven, figure out how their new tractor and sprayer worked — not to mention the dozens of other tasks that had to be performed.