Coffee Shop Blog
AN AGRITOURISM TEST RUN: AIRBnB EXPERIENCES
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2025. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Featured image: The author enjoying a you-pick flower farm experience at Michael David. Photo by Randy Caparoso. There is no doubt that we need to create more ways for farmers and...
HOW CHEAP IMPORTS UNDERMINE CALIFORNIA WINEGROWERS
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2025. BY STUART SPENCER, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Earlier this month, I was invited back on California Insider to share the grower’s perspective on the state of California’s wine industry. You can find the interview linked HERE and below. I...
IT’S TIME FOR THE LODI GRAPE FESTIVAL
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2025. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Featured image above: 1936 Lodi Grape Festival, a three-day harvest festival kicking off under the city's historic Mission Arch. Ralph Lea, Lodi Historic Society. Once every year during...
LODI GROWERS SHARE DOVE RECIPES
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2025. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Enjoying the culinary delights of our winegrowing and hunting community is a true pleasure of the agrarian Lodi lifestyle. To celebrate the first days of dove season in Lodi, we asked...
LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION ELECTS YOUNGEST LEADERSHIP TEAM IN 34-YEAR HISTORY
MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 2025. BY LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Featured image above: Lodi growers pictured from left to right – Pieter A. den Hartog (son), Pieter den Hartog (father), Hadyn Schatz (son), Rodney Schatz (father), Jacylyn Stokes Iniguez (daughter), Bill Stokes...
