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Monday, March 28, 2022

Organic Is Easy, Says Frog's Leap Vineyard Manager Frank Leeds in Post Film Discussion Following Screening of Documentary Filmmaker Brian Lilla's "Children of the Vine" in Sonoma

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Napa filmmaker Brian Lilla (left) and vineyard manager Frank Leeds (right) of Frog's Leap in Napa at the Sonoma screening When Brian Lil...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

Ram's Gate Becomes Latest Carneros Winery to Go Organic: Winemaker Joe Nielsen Shares the Journey

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Winemaker Joe Nielsen, Ram's Gate UPDATE The day after publishing this blog post, Ram's Gate won both the Bohemian's top wine t...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

Starring Everyone's Favorite Herbicide, Roundup: Napa Filmmaker's Documentary Children of the Vine Screens at Sonoma Film Fest March 24 and 26

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When filmmaker Brian Lilla moved to Napa several years ago, he was surprised to see Roundup being sprayed widely. He decided to do something...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022

The Best Storyteller in the Room: Mark Arax's EcoFarm Keynote on Monoculture and Misusing Water–"We've Got to Find Our Way Back to a Better Agriculture"

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One of the highlights of the year is the annual EcoFarm conference, a gathering of organic farmers held at Asilomar. Covid disrupted the la...
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Monday, March 14, 2022

Glyphosate Decreases Quality and Quantity of Sperm Production, New Chinese Study Shows

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A January 2022 study from Chinese scientists published in Environment International on glyphosate shows how glyphosate decreases sperm quali...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

A Winery Raises Its Voice: How Can "Sustainable" Include Herbicides Like Roundup?

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When people tell me organic is not profitable, I always refer them to Emiliana, an organic only winery in Chile that exports 1 million cases...
Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Aeris: The Taste of Sicily's Etna Region Comes to Healdsburg

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An Italian immigrant of a different flavor is the latest Italian arrival in Sonoma soils. While the northern Italians swarmed into Dry Creek...
Saturday, March 5, 2022

Fertility Crisis: As Intensive Pesticide Use Increases, Sperm Counts Decline

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The BBC has just released a video on the dramatic findings of  Dr. Shanna Swan 's landmark research on declining sperm counts. She is an...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Catching up with IPCC

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As climate becomes an ever increasingly important topic for life on earth, and in the wine world, it's time expand the conversation from...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

From Prosecco to Primitivo: Organic Wines in the Gambero Rosso Tre Bicchieri "Italy in a Nutshell" Tasting

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Wines in the Top Ten Tasting Lineup from Organic Vineyards Seated masterclass tastings at Gambero Rosso's in person tour featured an out...