VidaCycle Regenerative Viticulture Series #1: Building Soil Health in your Vineyard with Nicole Masters

June 9, 2021, in Videos

in Early 2021, the team behind Vidacycle held a series of interviews with experts in regenerative viticulture. This is the first of those interviews and features Nicole Masters, an internationally renowned agroecologist. Nicole is the author of For the Love of Soil, a book filled with very practical tools for taking a more regenerative approach to viticulture. This conversation with Nicole focuses on soil health as the root to a healthy vineyard.

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