Arable Short 01 | Dry Farmed Apples: Gravensteins with Matt Niess
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Show by THE FUTURE COLLECTIVE
Arable Short 01 | Dry Farmed Apples: Gravensteins with Matt Niess walks through the Hallberg Butterfly Gardens in Sebastopol, home to an 80-year-old Gravenstein orchard on the property where Louise Hallberg was born and raised. Matt shows how this dry-farmed, old-growth orchard coexists with the adjacent butterfly preserve and explains why he co-ferments these apples with wild California grapes for his Wildcard bottling. He makes the case for keeping old orchards like this one standing rather than replacing them with vines: no irrigation, no spraying, and carbon staying locked in the soil, plus a chance to build a market for the agricultural diversity already growing in wine country.Arable is a documentary series that profiles a new generation of farmers, winemakers, small business owners, and advocates who are reshaping relationships between land, labor, and community in the region. Directed by Aaron Brown, presented by The Future Collective. We hope these conversations help you understand the values of a new generation that might become the foundation of a regenerative and diversified economic future for Sonoma Valley. Learn more at www.thefuturecollective.org/arable. The project is funded by the Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund.
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