VASCM: Next Meeting Friday, Oct. 10 at Heart O'the Mountain/Armitage Vineyard: Cover Crops & Winterizing Your Vineyard; Fire Prevention

[Mary Lindsay]

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The next VASCM meeting:  Winterizing Your Vineyard, and Fire Prevention 
in Vineyards
with Rich Casale, NRCS
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Friday, October 10
2:00pm
at Heart O'the Mountain Vineyard, hosted by Brandon Armitage
705 Canham Rd., Scotts Valley *(please follow the directions below and 
do not use gps)*

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This meeting will be about preparing your vineyard for the coming 
winter, including cover crops, erosion prevention (in the vineyard and 
outside the growing area, including roads), preventing landslides, what 
to do and not do in the event of debris flows, storm water runoff, 
mulching, etc. If we have even half the rain we had last winter these 
issues can be pertinent. Cover crops should be going in now, especially 
with rain coming in soon, and we would have liked to have had this 
meeting earlier, but you can also plant a late season, cold tolerant 
annual cereal grain.

Rich Casale recently 'retired' from the NRCS but was recently hired back 
to work in Napa and Sonoma in the aftermath of the catastrophic fires 
there. So, in addition, he will talk about fire prevention in our 
vineyards, a topic that has been foremost in our minds recentlywith 
wildfires locally in the past couple of months (Saratoga, and the Bear 
Fire) and the past couple of years, as well of course with the recent 
wildfires north of us.

This will be a walk and talk in the vineyard, but if you want it you 
might bring your own chair. And, as usual, please bring a bottle of wine 
to share.

Thank you to Brandon Armitage for hosting. He will talk about the 
vineyard and his wine production. See the directions below (and please 
follow these directions, not your gps or you might not get there).

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting and catching up on the 2017 
harvest.

Regards,
The VASCM Board:
- Mary Lindsay
- Ken Swegles
- June Salsbury
- Rick Clarke


*Directions to Heart o'the Mountain Vineyard, 705 Canham Rd., Scotts Valley
/Please note: be sure to follow these directions. Phone maps can take 
you to the wrong place.

/*- From Hwy. 17, take the Granite Creek/Scotts Valley exit.
- If coming from Los Gatos, go straight through the light onto Glenwood Dr.
- If coming from Santa Cruz, loop over the pass and turn right onto 
Scotts Valley Dr.; get in the left hand lane and turn left onto Glenwood Dr.
- Take Glenwood Dr. north 1.6 miles to Canham Rd.  Turn right on Canham Rd.
- Take Canham Rd. for 1.5 miles to the winery.
- Canham is a narrow one lane road and there are several speed bumps so 
please drive carefully.
- After 1/2 mile you will cross over Chalk Mt. & Farm Rd.
- You will go downhill into the woods and cross over a little wooden bridge.
- You will wind uphill and pass through an open iron gate.
- Make a right onto the dirt road (before a 2nd gate) and park near an 
alternate vineyard entrance. We'll post signs.




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