1. Casa Grande’s
Vineyard
Austin Eger
Class of 2013
Green Career Pathway

2. Project Details
• 40 plant vineyard
• In the OLE quad
• Will be selling the
grapes to wineries
in the future

3. How The Idea Came Up
• Near the gym
• Experience with
grapes
• Worked with Dr.
Shribbs on past
projects in the
OLE

4. Connection To GCP
• Used recycled posts
• Left over vines from organic farm
• Used extra irrigation materials
• No machinery involved
• Watered with reclaimed water

5. Advisors
• Dr. ShribbS
• John KooS
• Tim Scheele

6. The Plan
• How many plants
would fit
• Draw up the
layout
• Get plan
approved

7. What I Had To Do To
Complete
• Turn in layout
• Put in posts
• Put in irrigation
• Dig holes
• Put in plants

8. Challenges
• How many plants
would fit
• Donations
• Contacting people
over phone and
email and trying to
describe the
project

9. Time Management
• Get items/work done in a certain order
• Complete what needed to be done every
Saturday

10. What I'm Proud Of
• All donations
• Using only $20

11. Life lessons
• Learned how to plant a vineyard
• How to get donations
• How to communicate with people you’ve
never met before
• The amount of physical labor grape
growers have to do

12. Learned About Self
• I don’t mind communicating with new
people
• I can complete a project by using almost
all donations

13. Future Plan For The
Vineyard
• Sell the grapes off to wineries
• Money goes back toward OLE
• Have a student next year take over the
project

14. The End