Re: VITICULTURE WOrKSHOP

[Perry Clutts]

Allan, The site was just FYI in case you'd like to sign up for the NC Wine and Grape Industry newsletter. It's general info on wine and grapes in the state. Never seen anything on Biodynamics or even organic. The part about BD was just in the announcement I pasted in the last e-mail body. I wrote the contact at Penn State and will post his reply. Maybe you'd like also to write him to show the interest!!!     About grapes in North Carolina. I had heard about transition money going to help tobacco farmers transition to organic production. I've also read about how grapes have really been taking off in NC ( 25 wineries, 13th in the nation in growing grapes, 430 acres in 1995 to 1,100 acres now). I put these too together and figured that these are organic vineyards... How naive. I've not been able to find any. How about Virginia? Seems like great potential for BD. How is your plan going?   This is all there was in the newsletter: ALTERNATIVE VITICULTURE MEETING IN PENNSYLVANIA A meeting to discuss alternative viticulture will be offered by Penn State Cooperative Extension of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on January 28 and 29, 2003. This is a day and a half meeting, which will be held at the Spring Garden Conference Center in Middletown, PA, just east of Harrisburg. The cost will be approximately $100 per person for both days, which includes coffee, continental breakfast, drinks and snacks on both days, and lunch on the first day. A list of motels and restaurants in the area list will be provided with registration materials. For more information and registration, please contact Mark Chien at 717 394-6851 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The goal of the meeting is to bring perspective and information to the often fuzzy realm of non-conventional commercial viticulture, including sustainable, organic and biodynamic methods.  I went to the site and couldn't find any reference to biodynamics (this is the NC site I'm referring to.) How (or Who?) is biodynamics involved?? I'm VERY curious.