Left: Bright Coachella Valley sunshine feeds the vines to create a crunchy and flavorful full-colored grape. Right: Cover crops, biologicals, plant extracts, and compost bring the soil to life.
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Major players in the industry can be slow to adapt, as implementing these systems on a larger scale involves complex calculations, financial expense, and undesired risk. At Anthony Vineyards, there is a focus on both the short-term and long-term effects of their practices. Polich emphasizes that Anthony Vineyards isn’t driven by trends but by a thoughtful combination of methods that ultimately grow a higher quality box of grapes for their consumers while leaving their vineyards stronger and healthier than the previous year. Currently, there are lots of incentives and grants in the industry that can help to fund new ideas and regenerative innovation. Anthony Vineyards has utilized some of these programs like the USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities. As Polich notes, this funding helps scale the regenerative practices that have already been implemented over thousands of acres.
NTHONY FROM simple beginnings birthed over 100 years ago to the multigenerational enterprise it is today by investing in growth, innovation, and regeneration. VINEYARDS GREW The results are often visual. “We’re very in tune with our vineyards and reading the vine and the soil to see what it needs,” Josh Polich, Anthony Vineyards’ PCA/agronomist, tells The Rooted Journal. “We’re responding to those cues like the shine of the leaf, vine activity, root growth, fruit development, and visual indicators of years of walking these. We’re more visual than analytic, but then we back our visuals with analytics.” It’s clear that Polich and the team at Anthony Vineyards are continually evolving to optimize their operations by understanding the holistic approaches that apply to such a large- scale operation. “You have to be economic, agronomic, and logistical,” he explains, noting that regenerative practices can work in theory, but not in practicality. You have to understand the “why,” not just the “what”; most of the time when you understand the scientific “why,” the “what” answers itself. Anthony Vineyards uses cover crops, biologicals, plant extracts, and compost to bring their soil to life.
photographs by Igor Galan & Josh Polich by Dustin Beatty
“We’re responding to those cues like the shine of the leaf, vine activity, root growth, fruit development, and visual indicators of years of walking these [vineyards]. We’re more visual than analytic, but then we back our visuals with analytics.”
THE LEGACY OF ANTHONY VINEYARDS’ GRAPE GROWING BUSINESS STARTED
FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS TO AN ORGANIC REGENERATIVE ENTERPRISE.
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