FOREST GROVE, Ore. — The journey to biodynamic farming at Montinore Estate began with a tiny soil-dwelling insect. Rudy Marchesi, former president of the 200-acre vineyard and winery west of Portland, ...

There are plenty of agriculture buzzwords floating around the news these days (Agroforestry! Vertical farming! Sustainable intensification!), and it can be challenging to keep all these different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Surrey vineyard has shared its "unusual" method of winemaking which involves manure and horns from cattle. Albury Vineyard, in ...

To understand biodynamic agriculture, consider egg labeling. “Free-range” stamps previously suggested eggs laid by chickens raised on pastures. Then, it turned out, they were laid by chickens with ...

SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Calif.SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Calif. — When vintner Randall Grahm chose the softly sloping hillside and time to plant his new pinot noir vines, he weighed all the things farmers usually ...

WASHINGTON — “The market is full of very good wines with no charm, and I think this is about to change,” Nicolas Joly proclaimed, peering at me alternately through and over his spectacles. “Too many ...

Winemakers have produced wines organically for thousands of years, but over the last century, new methods have been introduced to gain greater control of the winemaking process, reduce risk and create ...

Recently I’ve noticed more wineries touting their product as “biodynamic” — Oregon’s Cowhorn and Santa Barbara’s Ampelos Cellars are among a growing list of West Coasters who have joined the ranks of ...

One preparation for biodynamic agriculture involves grinding quartz to the consistency of talcum powder, and burying the material in cow horns for six months. It is then dug up, mixed into a spray and ...