Bulk organic compost is delivered for a landscaping and vineyard project.

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Newly terraced field stone walls and now the soil is being opened, cleared, and amended

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Colorful mediterranean plants thrive in this new garden.

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New terraced walls, amended and bermed soil, and the grapevine trellises are in...

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A closer look at the native soil just amended with organic compost.

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With excellent soil and a healthy
'soil food web,' the new grapevines thrive half way into their first season.

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An existing vineyard's soil after through amendment.

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A cover crop growing in the winter. It protects the soil from erosion and adds organic matter to the soil to benefit the soil food web and the grapevines.

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The vines thrive with healthy, living soil.

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A new vineyard's winter cover crop...clovers and lupines pull nitrogen from the air to improve soil fertility.

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A bit later in the season at another vineyard...other ornamentals join the lupines and clover, adding more beauty to the vineyard. Variety in species of plants broadens the habitat for beneficial insects to keep insect pest populations low.

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Later in the same season. The diversity of flowering plants evolves. This is habitat we create for beneficial insects to control pest insects.

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Summertime and other flowering ornamentals are dominant. Both the insect habitat and the aesthetics have evolved.

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