Grafting

One of Slovenia's premier wine-growing regions, the Vipava Valley has a vine grafting tradition going back almost 120 years. Today, their grafted vines are sold world-wide, the lion's share to France, the world's leading wine-producing country.

In 2008, Syracuse University professor of Art Sam Van Aken wanted to create a multi-colored tree for his an art project. Vak Aken was granted a 3-acre orchard from the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station and started to graft buds from the 250 heritage varieties found on the orchard onto a single stock tree.