VASCM: Next VASCM Meeting: April 18 at Ridge

[Mary Lindsay, Muns Vineyard]

The next meeting of the VASCM
Friday, April 19 at Ridge Vineyards
9:00-12:00

*Vine Water Use*

Lunch is provided; and there will be wine tasting, so bring a bottle to 
share.
This is a joint program with CAFF (Community Alliance with Family Farmers)


This program will be about understanding and measuring vine water use 
for vine health and fruit quality.  It continues what will be a series 
on vineyard water issues. In this program:

- David Gates at Ridge Vineyards has very generously volunteered to host 
and will talk about the irrigation strategies he has implemented. He dry 
farms some blocks and irrigates others. He will talk about irrigation 
triggers, as well as his use of sap flow monitoring instrumentation from 
Fruition Sciences. And he will give us a vineyard tour and talk about 
his water conservation measures overall.

- Thibaut Scholasch, PhD., founder of Fruition Sciences 
<http://www.fruitionsciences.com/en/login/home>, will talk about vine 
response to water stress and the science behind using sap flow sensors 
to schedule irrigation.

- Larry Bettiga, UCCE Viticulture Advisor for Santa Cruz County (web 
page here <http://cemonterey.ucanr.edu/about/contact/?facultyid=166>), 
will give us the big picture on vine water use, including the effects of 
water availability and drought conditions on vine health, and different 
measurement methods.

*RSVP please* by replying to this message (so we can plan for lunch).


A couple of weeks ago we heard from Marcus Buchanan who set the stage 
with an information-packed presentation on vineyard water management.  
His presentation will be made available shortly (it is a quite large 
file). In this next program we will hear about a specific application at 
Ridge, as well as one of the tools available for measuring vine water 
status (sap flow monitoring). And in a subsequent program (date TBD in 
May), we will hear about another new technology for  measuring vineyard 
water use from Tule Technologies. Each program will provide something 
different and new.  If you can make it to only one or two, you will get 
a big picture context for vine water use at each as well as hear about 
some of the tools available. If you can make it to all of them you will 
get a whole lot of valuable information indeed, and still get something 
new from each.

Please note: the meeting is at the Ridge production facility, 18100 
Montebello Rd., Cupertino. Directions can be found via Google Maps here 
<https://maps.google.com/maps?q=ridge+vineyards&hl=en&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=41.496446,108.720703&hq=ridge+vineyards&t=m&z=15&iwloc=A>. 
Also see directions below.

~ ~ ~

*
**2014 Memberships are due:*  As ever, only $50 for the year (due at the 
beginning of the year). If you are renewing membership and have already 
filled out the form, no need to fill it all out again unless your 
information has changed. We ask new members to fill it out so we can get 
your information. You will find the membership form on the home page of 
the websitehere <http://www.vascm.org/>.


Cheers,

VASCM Board
- Mary Lindsay
- Rachel Ormes
- Bruce Manildi
- June Salsbury


Directions to Ridge Vineyards:

/*Ridge Vineyards
*Production Facility*
*/ /18100 Monte Bello Road/
/Cupertino, CA 95014 /

 From Hwy. 85, take the Stevens Creek Blvd. exit
turn left onto Stevens Creek Blvd.
turn left onto S. Foothill Blvd.
continue onto Stevens Canyon Rd.
turn right onto Montebello Rd.
continue on Montebello for a little over 3 miles

/Phone 408.867.3233/




	







-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.kkn.net/pipermail/vascm/attachments/20140321/7e67220d/attachment-0001.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Vit_logo_gothic_copy.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 48382 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://www.kkn.net/pipermail/vascm/attachments/20140321/7e67220d/attachment-0001.jpg 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: CAFFlogo.gif
Type: image/gif
Size: 1838 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://www.kkn.net/pipermail/vascm/attachments/20140321/7e67220d/attachment-0001.gif