332: Regenerative Viticulture: The Benefits of Stacking Practices

Sustainable regenerative agriculture isn’t built on a single practice; it’s about stacking practices to achieve greater benefits. 

Amélie Gaudin, Endowed Professor of Agroecology in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis, shares research spanning 50 vineyards in Northern California, New York’s Finger Lakes, and France. She explores stacking cover crops, compost, reduced tillage, grazing, and greater plant diversity to improve soil health and soil carbon. Amélie also discusses barriers to adoption and why growers should start small, experiment, collaborate, and adapt regenerative vineyard management to local conditions.  

Resources:  

• 308: Balancing Cost, Efficiency, and Sustainability in Vineyard Management 
• 328: Rethinking Vineyard Weed Management to Build Healthier Soils  
• Amélie Gaudin 
• Barriers and opportunities to increase soil organic carbon in vineyards: A case study of extension personnel in France and in the United States 
• Grazing Sheep in California Vineyards 
• Integrating sheep into vineyards: diversity of farmers' agronomic logics and trajectories 
• SOC Persistence and Accrual in Vineyards 
• UC Davis Horticulture and Agronomy Graduate Group 

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