Napa Valley Grapegrowers Breaks Ground on Patrick Foley Center for Grapegrowing and Farmworker Education

by Katherine Martine

The Napa Valley Grapegrowers (NVG) gathered just off St. Helena Highway in Oakville on May 27 for the official groundbreaking of the Patrick Foley Center for Grapegrowing and Farmworker Education, the organization’s first permanent home and community hub for training and professional growth in the wine industry.
The celebration included a champagne toast to the team of donors and others who’ve helped raise capital (over $9.5 million) for the project, and the kick off to the site’s demolition with a Hitachi backhoe tearing into part of a building on the 2.2-acre property.
“We’re not simply breaking ground on a building. We are breaking ground on a legacy. A legacy built by people who grow the grapes that make this valley famous, and carried forward by generations of growers who will shape the next chapter of this industry,” Caleb Mosley, executive director of NVG, shared during the event. 
Once completed, the center—outfitted with a design honoring the site’s history as the Oakville train station—will feature hands-on training space, a demonstration vineyard with 0.9 acres planted to vine, classroom and community meeting facilities...

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