Date: November 2021 EcoGrowers: Dan and Ian Falkenberg Region: Barossa, SAAbout this project “EcoVineyards is a fantastic program that aims to inform the importance of habitat and native vegetation that can be woven into a vineyard production system. To work with mother nature not against it.”READ THE FULL CASE STUDY
Date: July 2022 EcoGrowers: Adam Pietsch and Prue Henschke Region: Barossa, SAAbout this project “EcoVineyards assisted us in establishing a diverse insectary planting within our Eden Valley vineyard, adding to the vineyard’s biodiversity and encouraging natural control of vineyard pests.”READ THE FULL CASE STUDY
Date: September 2021 EcoGrowers: Dave and Cheryl Walton Region: Clare Valley, SAAbout this project “Our EcoVineyards Project has provided valuable guidance; networking capability; and enthusiasm to maintain our quest for continuous improvement and sustainability. Our appreciation to Dr Mary Retallack and everyone that has supported the concept/implementation of the EcoVineyards program. Thank you.”READ THE FULL CASE STUDY
Date: September 2021 EcoGrowers: Jess, Ben, Rose and Kym Castine Region: Clare Valley, SAAbout this project “The EcoVineyards project has been valuable in allowing us to develop a long-term plan to build biodiversity in the vineyard, while simultaneously improving our natural resilience to species detrimental to grape production.”READ THE FULL CASE STUDY
Date: September 2021 EcoGrowers: Matthew O’Rourke Region: Clare Valley, SAAbout this project “The EcoVineyards program has complemented work already started and its pleasing to see the environment return to what it once was, have been cleared for cropping originally then turned into a vineyard. The creek was devoid of plants, and they are now thriving, and I would expect the …
Date: August 2021 EcoGrowers: Hans Loder and the team at Penley Estate Region: Coonawarra, SAAbout this project “Being an EcoGrower has been a positive period of personal development, getting hands on and gaining a greater appreciation of the diversity of the region in which I live. I’d like to think that the insectary plantings will go on to provide ecosystem …
Date: September 2021 EcoGrowers: Chris Brodie Region: Coonawarra, SAAbout this project “The EcoVineyards program has made me realise how critical it is to use biodiversity as a tool to improve our vineyard management especially of current and emerging pest threats.”READ THE FULL CASE STUDY
Date: September 2021 EcoGrowers: Samara Wyatt, Matt Schmidt, Bec Willson and the team at Bremerton’s Kilpuruna Vineyard (First Pick Viticulture) Region: Langhorne Creek, SAAbout this project “Participating in the EcoVineyards project has reinvigorated a passion for native flora and fauna by acknowledging and supporting their role in the vineyard ecosystem. We have enjoyed getting together with other participants in the …
Date: August 2021 EcoGrowers: Sarah Keough and the team at Bleasdale Vineyards Region: Langhorne Creek, SAAbout this project “Projects such as this allow us to venture in a direction outside our ‘normal’ vineyard operations and practices.”READ THE FULL CASE STUDY
Date: June 2021 EcoGrowers: Lulu Lunn Region: McLaren Vale, SAAbout this project “I have learned so much more about the ecology and interactions of plants, insects and even soil and its microbiome since beginning with EcoVineyards. It has encouraged me to read, learn and research more and be more inquisitive. After 35 years of being in the same job it …