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An Update on the April 21 Frost
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about the effects of last week’s devastating frost at Dodon, when no vine was left untouched, despite improved cold-air drainage in the low spots and the fans running in a futile attempt to bring warm air into the vineyard.
by Tom Croghan5 viewsvineyardoccasional-notes - news
Farming in Service of Nature
Loss of biodiversity may be humanity’s greatest threat, even more than climate change. Food production is the primary cause. At Dodon, we seek to reverse this trend and thus enhance the ecosystem services that will allow us to reduce our physical and chemical footprint…
by Regina Mc Carthy5 viewsfarmvineyardoccasional-notes - news
2020 Vintage Check-in
The year started normally enough. The autumn had been good to us. Warm weather, absent the extreme rain of 2018, meant healthy vines entered dormancy. We enthusiastically embraced new cover crops, created a novel composting program designed to stimulate mycorrhizal fungi, and bought a flail mower to mulch vine pruning wood in the vineyard.
by Regina Mc Carthy4 viewsoccasional-notesvintage-summaryfarm