And Now A Word About Falconry…

I bet you’ve never thought about falcons while sipping a glass of wine, but birds of prey can play a key role in sustainable vineyard management when deployed to chase away the birds who would otherwise eat ripe grapes at harvest time. If you want to learn the basics of how it works, it’s all in this video I took during a demo at Cakebread Cellars‘ Suscol Springs Ranch a couple weeks ago at their American Harvest Workshop. If you watch until the actual hunt begins (and if we had the same freshman English teacher), you’ll be reminded of John Updike’s poem “The Great Scarf of Birds”:

More to come from the Workshop soon!