Can Wine Save the Planet?
Follow along with 42Aspens Productions and Crushed Grape Chronicles on our Documentary Journey, as we start to answer that question, with a video diary and behind the scenes looks.
Beneath the Top Soil
Soil Health in the Vineyard:
Implementing regenerative agriculture practices is becoming increasingly popular among vineyards of all sizes. By adopting these methods, vineyards can restore and enhance their soils without relying on chemical inputs.
Beyond that, vineyards are reducing their carbon footprints with renewable energy, waste reclamation, & conservation, creating biodiversity on their properties.
Biodynamics has been around for the last century.
From the Biodynamics Alliance Page:
“Initiated in the early 1920s by Rudolf Steiner, biodynamic agriculture is a system of farming principles and practices that views the farm or ranch as a self-sufficient, integrated whole: a living organism. To create a farm as such a closed-loop system, solutions for that farm’s vitality – fertility, soil health, disease, and pest control – must arise from the farm itself, thus increasing biodiversity, enriching the soil, and enhancing ecosystem services, all while capturing atmospheric carbon in soil and above-ground biomass. The Alliance represents 44,000 acres of Biodynamic® certified producers, 98 certified Biodynamic® businesses (non-farming), and an expanded network of nearly 200,000 individuals with collaborative ties to more than 30 regional organizations.” Biodynamic Alliance
Regenerative organic is the next evolution and adds animals and people to the practice of creating an entire ecosystem.
It shows how revitalizing the soil in multiple ways, including enhancing biodiversity and integrating livestock, can help create more viable soil, better plants, better food, and a better life for the people working on the farm.
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