Making everyday an Earth Day

As Earth Day approaches every year, we grow reflective, challenged by the perennial question, “what more could we do?”

What more could we do to reduce our environmental footprint? To help simpatico partners succeed in doing things right? To widen the audience, thirsty for more ecologically minded growers and winemakers? What more could we do for our planet, wild habitat, and the health of our friends and family, vineyard workers and winemakers? This year we are handing out millions of bee-friendly wildflower seeds to create more forage for our local pollinators. These are non GMO annual and perennial wildflower seeds, each in a plant-based, compostable envelope.

There is always more to be done and our ecologically minded endeavors at The Wine Company gain momentum each year. Our ever growing list of Sustainable, Organic, Biodynamic and Vegan wines expands year on year and has never been more enticing. Not merely for the sterling principle involved but the quality of these wines. Our commitments go on and on. From reducing our carbon footprint to minding our company garden and wildlife habitat, from championing wineries powered by renewable energy to embracing solar power for all our needs at The Wine Company.

Solar Edge dashboard link

Track megawatt hours harvested from our solar garden clicking above to our SolarEdge Dashboard

By working together, our ongoing commitments become yours in turn. Buying wines from the growers who follow sustainable, organic and biodynamic methods, we embrace them in turn. Retailers and restaurateurs championing our imports from The Wine Company permit these worthy wines a wider reach, and thereby allow our greater networks in turn, a regular opportunity to take part in this constant endeavor, of making every day an Earth Day.

We thank you for your interest in our sustainable initiatives, for supporting our Sustainable, Organic, and Biodynamic selections, and for our combined commitment to #makingeverydayanearthday.

Happy Earth Day 2013 from The Wine Company

Staying true to our philosophy at The Wine Company involves many factors. One of those factors is embracing family ownership of wineries, which in turn leads naturally to land stewardship. Who wants their kids to be running through a field of chemicals (especially if they like to snack on the grapes)?

Organic and biodynamic farming practices are not a box we check when building new relationships around the world – it is not a litmus test – but often becomes a quality most of our wineries adhere to naturally.

It just makes sense. If you’re looking to build a small business to last for the long haul, if you’re building your business to pass onto another generation, and if you’re working with an agricultural product that is highly sensitive to effects of chemical manipulation, then ‘going green’ is not only the right path, but often times the only path.

Our experiences with wineries the world over that have converted from conventional farming to organic or biodynamic practices have convinced us of this truth.

So to all our friends and family world-wide, who are walking their fields everyday knowing their little kids can run up to the vine at anytime and eat a grape without worry, we wish you the happiest for Earth Day 2013.

Image: ladybug on vine cuttings, Frog’s Leap Winery, March 2013