Ashland Daily Tidings
Retailer, winery make a green team
Friday | 05 February 2010
By F.B. Drake III
Even the lowly used cork can be a contributor to the green movement.
For two years, the Ashland Food Co-op has partnered with Cowhorn Vineyard and Corvallis-based Western Pulp to convert used corks into reusable, compostable wine packing trays.
The result is a collaboration between two local green powerhouses — Southern Oregon's first and only certified organic retailer and its first and only certified biodynamic winery.
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Growing grapes by the moon
Friday | 20 June 2008
By Michele Mihalovich
But Barbara, 46, and her husband Bill, 47, did something beyond building an outdoor tasting room to set their vineyard apart. The Cowhorn Vineyard and Garden, snuggled next to the foothills of the Siskiyou Mountains in the Applegate Valley, is Southern Oregon's only certified biodynamic and organic vineyard and farm.
"Most people know what organic is," said Barbara. "Biodynamic goes one step further."
Like organic farms, biodynamic farms steer clear of artificial chemical use. But, according to Demeter International, the world's only biodynamic farm certifier, a biodynamic farm is managed as a living organism.
"It's truly based on the oldest principles of farming," Barbara said.
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