View from the Vineyard: A Practical Guide to Sustainable Winegrape Growing

View from the Vineyard: A Practical Guide to Sustainable Winegrape Growing
ISBN-10
1935879901
ISBN-13
9781935879909
Category
Cooking
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2011-10-01
Publisher
Board and Bench Publishing
Author
Clifford P. Ohmart

Description

Author and entomologist Clifford P. Ohmart brings reason and clarity to the politically loaded and amorphously defined popular world of sustainable viticulture with this unique and comprehensive examination of the subject. View from the Vineyard does much more than explain what "sustainable" means, its practical importance to the wine industry, and the costs of agribusiness as usual. It provides the farmer with a realistic and achievable path to a sustainable vineyard by describing the challenges of practicing sustainable winegrowing, where integrated pest management fits in, how organic and sustainable farming related, a holistic vision for the farm, how to identify and define your farm's resources, methods for developing sustainable goals, creating a plan to achieve your holistic vision, ecosystem management, and understanding the vineyard as habitat. The book concludes with a self-assessment guide in which growers can easily track their progress through these transitional periods.

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