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June 11, 2021 | Hannah Perry

Vineyard Farming

soil health and sustainable farming practices.

What Does It Mean To Farm Sustainably?

A sustainable winemaking process can be defined by many things, but what it really all comes down to is a few simple things:

• Does the winemaking process protect the environment and are farming practices done consciously and intentionally with the environment in mind?

• Does the winemaking process support social responsibility while maintaining economic feasibility?

• Does the wine production system mimic how vegetables and plants grow in natural ecosystems?

Sustainable wine grape growing is the journey of continually improving one's ability to minimize farming's environmental and social footprints.

Here's what we are doing:

Let's Talk Dirt:

The soil is one of the most important factors when it comes to producing a healthy crop. It is the very thing that holds everything together. It filters the rainwater that prevents flooding, it is capable of storing large amounts of organic carbon, it buffers against pollutants and it provides plants the necessary nutrients they need to grow. When taking care of our soil, we keep one very important thing in mind: When you feed the earth, the earth feeds you; what you put into the earth, the earth puts into you.

Doing The Dirty The Natural Way: Soil Rehab & Revitalization

Before Noisy Water ownership, the soil at The Forbidden Desert Vineyard was over tilled, over plowed and became so overworked. When this happens, the soil stops feeding the plants nutrients and can cause the vines to slowly die. In an effort to give back to the farmland that has and will give so much to us, we utilize a few different sustainable farming practices:

Weed removal methods such as disking and undercutting can cause copious amounts of soil erosion, so we opt to just let Mother Nature take the wheel and let cover crops/weeds grow and then we mow/mulch them back into the soil. This feeds the soil with plant material and nutrients and restructures and secures the topsoil.

Fungus Among Us

We give our soil that extra boost of confidence to produce amazing grapes with inoculations of mycorrhizae fungi.

A mycorrhiza is a symbiotic association between a green plant and a fungus. This permits the plant to obtain additional moisture and nutrients and greatly increase the absorptive area of a plant, acting as extensions to the root system. These inoculations are awesome for the long term health of the soil, and therefore the plants.

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