The new season comes with good news !

At the beginning of march the top field has been pruned ! A week after the volunteers’ visit, the hard work of pruning the vines began.

Jessica worked with Benita, whose family owns the vineyard, Carles, a local farmer, and Angela, who is teaming up with us on the Rovira Regenerativa project.

With this wonderful team, they managed to prune 2 of the vineyard’s terraces in just 4 hours!

The first terrace appeared to have living plants. The second terrace seemed to have a lot of dead vines, but we’ll have to see what happens in the summer. They might surprise us!

And to end the day on a high… the rain came to refresh the earth…

Wonderful!

We can’t wait to see what the natural future of Boodaville has in store for us!

Finally last week, 3 more terraces of the vineyard have been pruned.

Much of this was much harder than the previous pruning because, as these vineyards has been abandoned for two years, fennel has overgrown them.

It leaves tall brittle branches that in many areas, made it impossible to access for pruning.

Some of us had to clear paths so others could prune. In a more holistic system, animals could do this role, but at this point, it was up to us !

Jessica showing a new BV friend, Trevor, how to use a scythe!

It was really interesting to observe the small differences in these terraces from the previous ones.

Where the fennel is overgron, the ground is much more moist, with green grass and lots of low, very green leafy species, and of course, new fennel sprouting everywhere.

To be continued….

link to pruning instagram post :

https://www.instagram.com/p/C4XoTP3K3nN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

https://www.instagram.com/p/C4p9s3Zq73Q/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==