Grower Insights
Overview
Wine grape growers throughout Australia are employing a diversity of techniques to manage vineyards with a focus on EcoVineyards topics including soil health, ground covers and functional biodiversity. We will showcase a broad range of grower knowledge and practical insights here from wine growing regions across Australia.
If you are a grower who would like to share your unique take on these themes, please get in touch with the EcoVineyards team [email protected], so we can capture and share your knowledge with other wine growers.
Grower Insights - Ground covers
Dan Falkenberg, Eden Hall Wines
Meet EcoGrower Dan Falkenberg, Viticulturist, Eden Hall Wines who has been pioneering the use of native grasses and forbs over the past 15 years in the Barossa wine region. Dan shares his grower insights and practical knowledge on what works well and pitfalls to avoid when preparing, sowing, and maintaining stands of native ground covers in the vineyard.
Grower insights - Ground covers
Steven Faulkner, Oakridge Wines
Meet Steven Faulkner, Viticulturist, Oakridge who has been working with different multispecies cover crops in the Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula and surrounding wine regions. Steven shares his grower insights and practical knowledge on what works well and pitfalls to avoid when preparing, sowing, and managing stands of ground covers in the vineyard.
Grower insights - Ground covers
Liz Riley and Jerome Scarborough, Scarborough Wine Co.
Meet EcoGrowers Liz Riley, Vitibit Pty Ltd and Jerome Sccarborough, Scarborough Wine Co. who bring their perspective of working with different multispecies cover crops in the Hunter Valley. They share their grower insights and practical knowledge on some of the seasonal challenges that occur when managing multispecies cover crops in the vineyard.
Grower Insights - Ground covers
Brent Hutton, Keith Tulloch Wines
Meet EcoVineyards Regional On-ground Coordinator (ROC) Brent Hutton who shares his practical insights when working with commercial cover crops in the midrow, as well as native ground cover Dichondra repens, tom thumb in the undervine and midrow area in the Hunter Valley.