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March 2025 newsletter

March 12, 2025, in Articles & Blogs

🍇Update on the different regen certification schemes – there is now a downloadable comparison table on our website 🍇An excellent film on regen viticulture from @winetutor.tv 🍇Super interesting study on how bees affect yeast on grapes (you’ll be surprised!) 🍇Powerful short film with Merlin Sheldrake and Toby Kiers of SPUN following a Chilean mycologist and emphasising the importance of a third ‘F’ in conservation – ‘fauna, flora and funga’ 🍇Some brilliant articles on industry adoption of RV, collaborating with songbirds, attempting to define RV , closing the nutrient loop, using cover crops, and is organic sustainable by Tom Croghan of the Vineyards at Dodon 🍇So many excellent podcasts! Scientific studies into Californian soils and barn owl boxes

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How to combat irregular rainfall in your vineyard

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How to combat irregular rainfall in your vineyard

Another excellent webinar in collaboration with the Wine Society. Moderated by Anne Jones, with: Find out from the impressive Greg Jones what hydroclimatic volatility or whiplash mean. Warmer atmosphere holds more moisture and turns it over more quickly. Where we used to experience switches back and forth between one or two dry years then two…

How to combat rising temperatures in your vineyard

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March 11, 2026

How to combat rising temperatures in your vineyard

Really excellent webinar in collaboration with the Wine Society. Hosted by Becky Sykes with: Viticulture research supremo Kees van Leeuwen covers the big picture of rising temperatures in vineyards and the end product, aromas in wine. Daniela has strong background in research and shares her research in Mendoza, Argentina. Pepe is dry farming in Spain,…

How to combat pests and diseases more sustainably

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March 11, 2026

How to combat pests and diseases more sustainably

Really excellent webinar in collaboration with the Wine Society. Hosted by Becky Sykes with: Mary Retallack is an extraordinarily experienced ecologist who has been working in regenerative farming for decades before the word even became widely used. She brings a wealth of knowledge of biocontrols in vineyards across multiple contexts. Very practical tips on: insectary…

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