Sustainable Winegrowing With Vineyard Team

Conservation burning is a way of dramatically reducing greenhouse gasses and particulate releases from burning woody material like old grapevines. Biochar is a soil amendment that can hold water and nutrients in the soil for slow release to the plants. Raymond Baltar, Director of the Sonoma Biochar Initiative; Director of the California Biochar Association and  Biochar Project Manager at Sonoma Ecology Center explains how to execute a conservation burn and make biochar to reduce smoke and capture carbon. References: “Biochar increases vineyard productivity without affecting grape quality: Results from a four years field experiment in Tuscany” | Scholarly article California Biochar Association Conservation Ag Burning  | UCCE Sonoma flyer “The Conservation Burn Technique” | Vineyard Team Technical Article Sign Up | Irrigation Efficiency Project Sonoma Biochar Initiative Sonoma Ecology Center Randall Graham’s thoughts on biochar (Video) Raymond Baltar’s LinkedIn page Workshop: Conservation Burning & Biocha