Soils for Life Podcast
Did you know that healthy trees and vines can marshal their own army of biocontrol agents to deal with pests?
In this episode of the Soils for Life podcast, we talk with Dr Mary Retallack about how grape growers and orchardists are using inter-row cover crops, native insectaries and the plant nutrition pyramid to make their crops more resistant to pests and diseases and save time and money along the way.
Dr Retallack from Retallack Viticulture and Ecology is an agricultural scientist, a third-generation viticulturist and agroecologist who founded the award-winning National EcoVineyards Program. Her PhD research focused on native insectary ground cover plants and the role they play in supporting natural predators of vineyard pests, and showed how functional diversity not only builds ecological health, but delivers economic benefits to growers
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