Thank you!! We'd do well to keep this in our community conversations. I think people get stuck, myself included, thinking that there is no way, given land prices, that anyone would buy land for food farming or that vintners would sacrifice income potential in their wine business to produce anything less lucrative. But the pulling of vines allows us to perhaps have a new perspective. Maybe it makes good sense to give some amount of land to food production and it can be done in such a way that it even brings benefit to existing vineyards by attracting beneficial insects, and result in stronger ecosystems. That is possible. Thank you NVF.
Bravo. Terrific and fascinating article. Not to mention inspiring. thanks!
A most important article-thanks for planting the seeds for ag diversification. Might we all plant some California natives t help the bees along.
Thank you!! We'd do well to keep this in our community conversations. I think people get stuck, myself included, thinking that there is no way, given land prices, that anyone would buy land for food farming or that vintners would sacrifice income potential in their wine business to produce anything less lucrative. But the pulling of vines allows us to perhaps have a new perspective. Maybe it makes good sense to give some amount of land to food production and it can be done in such a way that it even brings benefit to existing vineyards by attracting beneficial insects, and result in stronger ecosystems. That is possible. Thank you NVF.
Thanks for a great article. The saying is, "every cloud has a silver lining".