Archive for the ‘biodiversity’ Category


Legume green cover in vineyards
By Claudio Niggli, Hans-Peter Schmidt & Jonathan Tudor

Short version by Claudio Niggli, Hans-Peter Schmidt and Jonathan Tudor Citation: Legume green cover in vineyards – an interim report, Claudio Niggli et al, Ithaka-Journal, 2009, S.259-290, www.ithaka-journal.net/62, ISSN 1663-0521 1. Introduction The influence of permanent green cover variants on grapevines without mechanical soil management has been investigated during the last years with respect to ...

Charter for Biodiversity in Vineyards
By Hans-Peter Schmidt

The principal idea of the new methods for a quality orientated wine growing is aimed at a precise encouragement of biodiversity. Nevertheless, the idea only arises indirectly from that esthetical image of a vineyard where one can perceive the smell of flowers and where the grasshoppers are jumping around; it ...