Our Service Areas
Vineyard Scouting
Vineyard scouting and recommendations on whatever recurring time period you need. This is not only pest, disease, and fertility scouting, this is with the eyes of a seasoned vineyard manager and vineyard owner, so what you get is feedback on everything, including tractor work, crew efficiency, cultural practices, infrastructure repair needs, and general observations. . The bulk of our career has been in organic and Biodynamic vineyards, so it is our firm belief that its always better to prevent an issue that to have to solve one, and that’s done by good scouting. Knowing the water status of a vineyard through monitoring devices in the field is important, and seeing what those numbers mean to the vines at a specific site is just as important. The best results are achieved when we are integrated into the vineyard management as trusted partners, with visibility on chemical application intervals and irrigation applications at a minimum.
Viticulturist Services
Not big enough to have a Viticulturist on staff but wanting the extra marketing component to help get your fruit sold? We offer a suite of services from which you can pick and choose to cater to your vineyard’s needs. ? We offer a suite of services from which you can pick and choose to cater to your vineyard’s needs. Fungicide, fertility, and insect control programs (organic and sustainable), irrigation recommendations, soil and tissue analysis with recommendations, nematode testing, pruning bud counts for crop planning, crop estimation (we also partner with crop scanning companies for total block cluster counts, red leaf counts, vine counts, etc), aerial imagery (water stress, vine counts, missing vines, NDVI) – or we can help you access free satellite imagery.
Certification & regulatory compliance
Need help with certifications or administrative organization to make certification inspections easier? Organic, Biodynamic, California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance, Lodi Rules, Fish Friendly Farming, are all organizations with whom we are intimately familiar. Regulatory issues? We can help with water Rights, Frost Water Demand Management Programs, Groundwater Sustainability, and the upcoming Vineyard Ordinance.
Site evaluation
Getting an accurate understanding of your site prior to development or redevelopment is absolutely crucial to achieving the outcome that you’re looking for, be it quality or quantity or both! This is achieved with a multi-disciplinary approach, examining soil, groundcover, water, topography, climate, winery needs, and understanding economic constraints of the operation. We can do basic soil evaluation with reporting and recommendations, or utilize licensed agronomists to do a higher level analysis and GIS enabled soil textural mapping. Knowing what options are possible and available in the industry can give a vineyard owner a much improved opportunity for successful outcomes.
management consulting
What’s the best structure and organization for your vineyard? What efficiencies can be gained by operating a little differently? Should you purchase your own equipment for the vineyard management company to operate? Or use theirs? How hands on are you as an owner, or how hands on do you need to be in order to realize your business plan? How can information best be captured and communicated to streamline your processes? We’ve seen a lot of different approaches over the years, and every operation is a little different, but there are some common threads to be employed in every organization.
Custom equipment work
We have a small fleet of equipment that we can deploy to do custom work in vineyards. Mowing, flailing, hedging, disc cultivation, Sunflower (undervine cultivation), and berm discs are available activities. We also have light towers during harvest and herbicide sprayers for rent.
Vineyard Scouting
We provide vineyard scouting and recommendations on whatever recurring time period you need. This is not only pest, disease, and fertility scouting, this is with the eyes of a seasoned vineyard manager and vineyard owner, so in addition to pest and fertility scouting, what you get is feedback on everything, including tractor work, crew efficiency, cultural practices, infrastructure repair needs, and general observations. The bulk of our career has been in organic and Biodynamic vineyards, so it is our firm belief that its always better to prevent an issue that to have to solve one, and that’s done by good scouting. Knowing the water status of a vineyard through monitoring devices in the field is important, and seeing what those numbers mean to the vines at a specific site is just as important. The best results are achieved when we are integrated into the vineyard management as trusted partners, with visibility on chemical application intervals and irrigation applications at a minimum.