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Buy American Wine!!!

Why not buy American wine? I’m not saying anything negative about foreign wine… you know, that juice from France (who love Americans so much!) or Italy (where the wine ALWAYS tastes much better when...

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Biodynamic Farming & Vineyards: 10 Things to Know

1.  In June of 1924, Rudolf Steiner presented 8 lectures over 10 days. Approximately 100 farmers had gathered in Koberwitz, Germany to hear those talks. Today those lectures can be found in a book...

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Environmental Sustainability, Social Equity and Economic Sustainability

As we engage in thoughts, ideas and conversations about environmental sustainability and social equity, we don’t want to leave out economic sustainability. The financial health and well-being of...

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The Green Wine Confusion Helper

Terminologically confused? Green wine, natural wine, sustainable wine, organic wine… If you’ve tasted a wine labeled organic wine, would you agree with me if I said they just don’t consistently taste...

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Why Buy Through ConsciousWine?

This short video lays it out! We’ve worked hard at vetting wineries in person and creating a unique platform that makes buying wine a vital choice for both palate and planet. Give it a watch!! The 3...

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Green Farmer

I need a massage.  I have a few rows of Merlot and Cabernet Franc in a hobby vineyard in Southern Oregon that I “manage” and coax into wine.   Each year I try to develop more skills and spend more time...

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Chew on This

In our ongoing journey to re-frame organic in the wine world, we’re going to play with the term, “Living Wine”. Wine in general needs to open a while, and we’re talking more than an hour. Imagine wine...

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Sustainable Farming Practices: Animals on the Farm

What exactly are sustainable farming practices? Good question! There’s many certifications based on sustainable farming practices yet do they go far enough? ConsciousWine has been on the look out for...

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Farm to Fork: Small Farms Conference

Saturday, February 25 2012 @ LaSells Stewart Center, Corvallis Oregon Founder Matthew Domingo will talk about the intricacies and the behind-the-scenes action of a farm dinner. Click HERE to learn more...

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Cowhorn Certifies Bee Friendly

All the animals love Cowhorn! As you may know, Cowhorn follows the practices of farming with the wild, encouraging habitat for wild creatures to live and work in cooperation with our farming...

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Youngberg Hill’s Lovely Native Birds

Last month we had the pleasure of welcoming to Youngberg Hill Ornithology Professor Don Powers of George Fox University, and nearly two dozen of his current and former wildlife biology students....

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Oregon Wine Board Hosts “Unwine’d”

May is Oregon Wine Month, and the Oregon Wine Board is welcoming it in style with “Unwine’d”, a major event in Portland on Sunday, April 29th.  More than 85 wineries and over a dozen restaurants will...

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A Conscious Approach to Sustainability

What keeps a farm strong and healthy? What practices does that imply? Can sustainable farming and rockin’ wine come out of the same bottle? On Earth Day 2011 ConsciousWine officially launched with a...

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Welshman’s Thriving California Vineyard Could Soon Export Bottles to the UK

A Welshman’s thriving vineyard in sunny California could soon be exporting its AmByth wine from the USA back to Wales. Phillip Hart emigrated to the USA from Bangor, North Wales, in the 1970s. And...

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Upper Five Vineyards: Sullivan and Steele

Terry Sullivan is an organic grape grower, wine producer and glassblower in Talent. On one side of his house, Sullivan tends to syrah, viognier and other vines. On the other side is a glass-blowing...

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Long Island Wineries Set Out to Prove Their Green Cred

Not content with simply being “local,” winegrowers create a sustainability certification and education program to spread eco-friendly practices Surrounded by water, stretched out along the east end of...

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H-E-B Wine and Food Week 2012 Ventures Inside the Loop for First Annual 80...

This past week, The Woodlands hosted its Wine and Food Week 2012, sponsored by H-E-B. Most of the events, including wine and cheese tastings, multi-course dinners and conversations with winemakers,...

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Farming Technique Helps Crops Adapt for California’s Dry Years

By Randol White for Eat, Drink, Explore, September 4, 2012 AmByth Estate is Paso Robles’ first and only winery to produce Demeter certified Biodynamic wines and are 100 percent dry-farmed. According...

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CW’s Winery of the Month Club

Starting November 1st we’ll be launching a fun, tasty, educational, wine buying club that features one ConsciousWinery per month. What’s special about a ConsciousWinery? They follow ConsciousWine’s 4...

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GMO Food Technology Doesn’t Help the Poor Very Much

Robert Paarlberg’s “The World Needs Genetically Modified Foods” (op-ed, April 15) gets it exactly backward. The technology does not help the hungry—the majority of whom are farmers in the developing...

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