Six years in the ground for six weeks on the lot
Ridgeline started as four acres behind a dairy barn that stopped milking cows. The first trees planted are the ones sold this year - everything here is on a rolling six-year clock, replanted the January after it is cut.
We shear every row by hand each summer to keep the shape full, which is most of the work nobody sees before the gates open in November.
The rest of the year the field is quiet. For six weekends it is the busiest place in the county.
