Pesticides in conventional wine - signature aromas and flavours This is an extension to my original post Seralini's book 'Le Gout des Pesticides' the taste of pesticides. For wine professionals [...]
Pesticides distort the taste of wine A french scientist and a chef have published a book about their experiment to discover how pesticides distort the taste of wine Do pesticides distort wine's [...]
Why Organic Wine? Why Biodynamic farming? Part 3 Pesticides A few years ago the death of a French winegrower, at a mere 43 years, officially recognised by the French government as directly due to [...]
Biodiversity in the vineyard and in the garden In this article, Caro Feely explores biodiversity, why it’s important, how wine growers are encouraging it, and how these actions can be applied in [...]
Hommage to Thich Nhat Hanh, and his books on love and environment Thay, Zen Buddhist monk, poet, writer, teacher, peace activist, environmentalist, and founder of Plum Village and his legacy of [...]
Latest pesticide statistics make for dismal reading This week the French association Generations Futurs released their 'Glyph Awards' the award for the biggest consumers of pesticides in France. [...]
Follow your Dream Have you ever done the exercise to dream where you would like to be in 5 years? It sounds so simple but it is exactly what we did 5 years before we moved to France and we landed [...]
What is organic farming? Simply put it is: - no chemical fertilisers - no herbicides or chemical weedkiller - no systemic pesticides (no systemic insecticides and no systemic fungicides) When you [...]
Christian Puglisi – chef, entrepreneur and creator of the only certified organic Michelin Star restaurant Caro Feely met Christian Puglisi, chef, entrepreneur, dynamo and creator of the only [...]
