Episode 108: Increasing the Nutrient Density of Wine Grapes with Nicole Dooling and Michael Frey

[@PedroRiosecoEscudero]

Michael and Nicole, thank you for sharing your story. Your journey has been definitely one of regeneration, not only the vineyard but relationships. Your humility, respect, curiosity and pursuit of excellence is admirable. Your story of reconnecting with the previous generation of farmers is inspiring. I am sure Dan and Vicki are proud. Their life work which commands respect and appreciation is being preserved by you both. Hopefully, this will pass on for many generations.

[@credenza1]

Thank you for another fascinating and valuable conversation. Nicole's comments about the health system are intriguing. She was being discreet, as I took it, and said less than she might have. I was surprised to observe over the recent period that some vineyards and wineries which professed ecological values were insisting that staff partake in a gene therapy experiment. The two positions are completely incompatible.

[@daiblaze1396]

Yeah farming heal at many levels : earth, souls, mind.

[@pilsplease7561]

I get rain in the spring maybe into early summer then nothing for the rest of the year. Southern California is brutal can get 8 inches of rain in a bad year like 40 in an amazing year. So that makes growing grapes tough because we have to water vines heavily to make up for the lack of rain.

[@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork]

This was such an excellent epsiode!

[@DocSiders]

Increased elevation increases the odds of freezing.

[@credenza1]

I find the S&S pruning method rather anthropomorphic in conception and surrounded with a mildly cultish atmosphere by adherents. I prefer the rigorous analytical approach of people such as Kaan Kurtural.

[@marcusyaboy]

Can you elaborate on the work of Kaan Kurtural? After a brief search it appears to be a philosophy in favour of mechanical pruning? What do you prefer about their work and how would you say it’s rigorously analytical?

[@PedroRiosecoEscudero]

Michael and Nicole, thank you for sharing your story. Your journey has been definitely one of regeneration, not only the vineyard but relationships. Your humility, respect, curiosity and pursuit of excellence is admirable. Your story of reconnecting with the previous generation of farmers is inspiring. I am sure Dan and Vicki are proud. Their life work which commands respect and appreciation is being preserved by you both. Hopefully, this will pass on for many generations.