Cheeky Extra Newsletter

The Regenerative Viticulture Foundation has produced an RV Guide to help growers to implement regenerative practices and to help people find growers near them

Grower Q&A with Wilhelm Joubert, the hugely respected vineyard manager at Hartenberg Wine Estate in Stellenbosch. Inspired by Alan Savory’s holistic management, he is most well-known for introducing cattle grazing to the vines.

Everything you need to know about vineyard soils:

618 page report from the UN on the current knowledge of soil biodiversity

The sun has shone on us for one weekend in the first half of the UK summer and luckily it was while we were at the Groundswell regenerative farming festival. 8,000 people talking about just one thing…regenerative farming. Wow, just wow. We learned so much. And we made such good connections. What an incredible reset. […]

This month we bring something different. We come cap in hand, asking for your help 💚Help to grow our network 💚Help to fill our map 💚Help to spread the word So we can go further and faster Please take a look to see how you can help. And for all the usual news, jobs, events […]

Andres et al., 2022 Comparison of soil quality at three vineyards managed under intensive, regenerative and minimum impact strategies using physical, chemical and biological indicators. Soil carbon stocks were 2.3 and 3.4 times greater in the regenerative and the minimal impact vineyards than in the intensive vineyard, respectively. Soil biota was particularly favoured by regenerative […]

Resources on vitiforestry, disease-resistant varieties, under-vine living mulches, cover crops and much more

Inspiring story of British farmers standing up against the industrial food systems and transforming the way they produce food

This is a whopper of a newsletter full of opportunities to learn from regenerative luminaries, a beautiful film on agroforestry with Patrick Worms, insights into soil health from Bragato Research institute and more events than you can shake a stick at…