Healthy soil is teaming with life – not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi and other microogranisms. This microbial life sustains health plants. The use of chemical fertilisers breaks this relationship, leaving plants dependent on artificial substances. But there is an alternative. We can instead use practices that strengthen the soil food web.
Big picture (why this matters for vineyards) This new Standard is the first clear, globally agreed framework for how farms and food & drink value chains should measure, report and manage carbon on land — including soil carbon, biomass, and removals — in a way that stands up to scrutiny . For vineyards, this is…
Ce mois ci, vous ne trouverez pas dans cette lettre de grandes résolutions ou une liste d’objectifs à atteindre pour l’année 2026. On vous propose plutôt de rester encore un peu dans la lenteur hivernale et de faire ici l’éloge du ralentissement… … notamment celui de l’eau. Sur une planète en surchauffe, l’eau est devenue le…
Really excellent deep dive into regenerative viticulture in the December 2025 -January 2026 edition, pages 29-34. ‘Regenerative Viticulture has an open and evolving toolbox for growing soil, vine and ecosystem health. Speaking to industry leaders about cover crops, crimpers, swards, sheep and worm counts, Emma Jenkins MW asks whether this is the next era of…
Adam Huss interviews Erik Schellenberg of Black Creek Farm and Nursery in the Hudson Valley of New York about his experiences with implementing commercial scale married vines. This is an approach to agroforestry that has also been used in other sectors such as cacao and coffee in Brazil, and grapes in Switzerland. One of the…
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