Greg Stach, owner of Lewis and Clark Lake Vineyard, near Yankton, South Dakota, showed producers what goes into the self-sustaining farming practice known as biodynamic farming. Greg Stach shows ...
FOREST GROVE, Ore. — The journey to biodynamic farming at Montinore Estate began with a tiny soil-dwelling insect. Rudy Marchesi, former president of the 200-acre vineyard and winery west of Portland, ...
For decades after the concept of biodynamic farming was introduced in 1924, there was an aura of witch and wizard mysticism and charmingly earnest cluelessness around biodynamic farming. You want to ...
Ivo Jeramaz, vice president of vineyards and production at Grgich Hills Cellar, went to his great-uncle, Miljenko ("Mike") Grgich, and told him about a lecture he had attended on biodynamic farming.
One thing you can be sure of regarding biodynamic wine—it’s as all-natural as you can get. For a bit more depth on the work that goes into this viticultural practice I quizzed two winemakers about the ...
One preparation for biodynamic agriculture involves grinding quartz to the consistency of talcum powder, and burying the material in cow horns for six months. It is then dug up, mixed into a spray and ...