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Re:Show HN: Growing Wine Grapes in My Parents' Basement by hevelvarik on Friday October 02, 2020 @03:25PM (#24666173)
4$ a pound, how do you intend to scale, assuming that a winery would only be interested in large allotments. I would suspect that greenhouse based operation in wine country would be far more expensive to main than the standard vineyard. Have you written anything about the economics of the enterprise?
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Re:Show HN: Growing Wine Grapes in My Parents' Basement by jmheflin on Friday October 02, 2020 @03:47PM (#24666393)
Hi! Thanks for the question.

I haven’t written anything, or really thought this far ahead yet. But $4/pound is close to what they sell greenhouse grown tomatoes for, and their yield/sqft is likely similar to what I could get. I do not suspect that the greenhouse will be located in wine country, as land is too expensive there.

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