Bainbridge property

Bainbridge property
(page last mod. 13-May-2004)
(Page is in reverse chronological order -- newest first for ease of returning visitors.)

Now that I've done some clearing of the Scotch Broom from along our driveway, our newly planted vineyard is visible from the main highway (SR-305). This is the intersection at Lovgren Road. (full size image 224k).

13-May-2004: Our vineyards:

The house came with an existing vineyard. We don't know it's exact history, but we can state unequivocably that it has been ignored for about 20 years as there are trees growing through of that age. We believe the plants are Muller Thurgau.

Bottom of vineyard, before clearing	Top of vineyard, after some clearing

Another portion of the property was previously a Christmas tree farm. This was left by the previous owner with a large cleared area in the middle, just big enough for about 100 grapevines on 7' rows. As you may have read in my earlier Perennial Vintners essays, Beth and I adore the Melon de Bourgogne winegrape. I asked around about getting some plants, and found that Inland Desert Nursery in Prosser, WA had 102 plants they'd love to sell me!

Ellis with the Melon plants right out of the shipping box	Plants stuffed into the ground after arrival until vineyard prepped	Ellis standing in bare area before vineyard	Our neighbor Akio helping pull down a few trees with his tractor	Ellis and I putting in the first plant (Beth taking picture)	All plants in (no posts or deer fence yet)

Apr-2004: My neighbor-to-the-south works for a geographic information systems company named LizardTech.
He's provided this higher detail image dataset data set of the neighborhood.
The image display plugin is available for free at their website, click on "MrSID Viewer ExpressView" image near bottom left of page. (local copy)

18-Feb-2004: Link to Kitsap County Geographical Information System with property lines: our plot
Once there, check the "Show imagery" checkbox, and hit the "refresh" button.

06-Jan-2004: (click on image for 400x300, click on text for 1600x1200)


Looking towards our house from old M&E tree farm	Looking up snow- covered drive to house	Our Christmas trees, soon to be vineyard	Further up driveway, closer to house

24-Dec-2003: (click on image for 400x300, click on text for 1600x1200)


View from deck	Whales on ferry ride and Mt. Rainier

Nov-2003: It's official -- we bought it!
Property info on John L. Scott website
(Here's photos grabbed from John L. Scott website:)

I took some pictures when we went over today to talk to a contractor about work before we move in. (I also took some outdoor photos, but they're all blank.):

Driving Directions:

Take Bainbridge Island (Winslow) ferry from downtown Seattle. (Ferry schedule here.)
From ferry, go straight up main highway on BI (SR-305).
After 3.5 miles, go Right onto "Lovgreen" Rd.
Immediately turn left into first driveway (gravel). (And I mean immediate. If you reach "Pleasant Place", you've gone too far.)
Follow driveway past 2 homes on left, taking either driveway on Right (both go to our house). (The second is probably the better choice if the drive is wet and muddy.)

Please note: We have seen the spellings "Lovgreen", "Lovgren", "Lovegreen", and Lovegren" all for this same road. (Worse yet, a few miles away there is also a completely unrelated "Lofgren" road.)

3 of 4 of the surrounding properties are owned by the city of Bainbridge Island, and are reserved for agricultural use.

Bainbridge Island Review newspaper article on Trust For Working Landscapes, (AKA TWL) Sat. 04-Oct-2003:
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  entire article (.pdf, 2.4Mb)

Link to Bainbridge Island Winery homepage

Island map (.jpg)	Island map, Lovgren/Day highlighted (.jpg) see green oval
Island map, Lovgren/Day detail (.jpg)	Driving from Seattle
Driving, detail from ferry The lower winery marker on the map is the existing BI winery. It will be moved to Day Road, near our new home in March-04. The upper winer marker is the defunct Rich Passage Winery.	Driving, detail from Lovgren
Island map, Lovgren/Day detail with parcel outline (.jpg) green line is driveway, blue is parcel perimeter
Island map, Lovgren/Day detail with parcel outline (.jpg) green line is driveway, blue is parcel perimeter, purple to south is city/ag., pink to north is BI Winery
Parcel map (.gif, 103Kb) Our part is lower trapezoid, including portions labelled "Christmas trees", "raspberries" (twice), "Fir trees", and "Grapes". Grapes are almost lost to young woods, raspberries are gone, lower raspberries is Christmas trees, Christmas trees is more young woods, fir trees is still fir trees, home site is same.