Cascina degli Ulivi - Azienda Biodinamica

l'agricoltura biodinamica

We apply biodynamic farming on all our vineyards. The vines are vertical trellis trained and the pruning is either spur or Guyot, with a density of about 5000 vines per hectare.
Every year, we sow green manure composed of many different species that include Gramineae, Leguminosae, Cruciferae, Poligonaceae.

We neither defoliate nor lop. Green harvest is not necessary because we have a well balanced ripening process.

Pest management treatments are limited to sulphur and copper. Copper is used in quantities that are usually lower than 2 kg per hectare per year and this has proven not to leave residues in the soil as it gets easily metabolised by the soil’s micro-organisms.

We have seen that thanks to good agronomical practices and the use of biodynamic preparations our canopy can absorb higher quantities of CO2. Great quantities of CO2 are also transformed in organic carbon by the mass of our green manure.

We need to use tractors for spraying and soil tillage, but since the amount of them is very limited, our fuel consumption per hectare of vineyard is about half of that of a conventional farm..