Where are your Malbecs? I don’t know anything about wine, but I know I like “Sancerre”s. I cut my teeth in the beverage industry in 2014, working part time at a small wine and spirits shop. Over the years, my colleagues and I have worked hard to expand palates and …
Winos, take notice! For many of us, it can be difficult to discern how climate change will tangibly impact everyday life. If you are an everyday wine drinker (like myself), you might be surprised (and disappointed) to learn that your happy hour beverage of choice is strongly linked to a changing …
After 7 months of interning at Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) in California, I have worked to organize and facilitate two dry-farming workshops, helped create a dry-farming program complete with webpages (it’s a work in progress, but check it out so far! www.caff.org/programs/dryfarm/), crafted a series of case studies, …
As you all know by now, I am from Vermont. And although Vermont, for quite some time, was famous for having more cows than people, the scale of the agricultural sector in Vermont pales in comparison to California’s. In driving around California, I have been shocked by the size and …
