Arable

Arable Short 05 | Gleaning Orchards with Marreya Bailey walks a Sebastopol orchard picking fruit tree by tree, choosing what's ripe by taste rather than variety name, since some of these old apple trees have crossed or been grafted so many times over the decades that no one can identify them anymore. Marreya traces how that same instinct shapes her cider work, from a single-orchard sparkling perry...

Arable : Episode 08 | Anthropology and Agriculture | Mad Marvlus' Marreya Bailey & Dos' Bar's Aaon Brown follows Marreya's path into wine, which ran through biological anthropology, the Court of Master Sommeliers, and harvests split between Sonoma County and Vermont, where she fell for hybrid grapes and fruit wine. The conversation traces the anthropology of fermentation itself...

Episode 07 | Hospitality and Place | Valley and Swim Club's Lauren Feldman & Marioni Wine and Dos' Bar's Dan Marioni, brings together two Sonoma natives, who left, found wine somewhere else, and came back to build something for their own community. Dan Marioni traces his path from disillusioned mechanical engineer to natural winemaker, shaped by a season crushing grapes by hand in...

Arable Short 04 | Biochar Burn with Eric Mayer and Dan Marioni follows a vineyard rehab in progress, where Dan Marioni is cane pruning vines back from years of neglect and cutting out the most diseased old growth to coax new life from what's left. The trimmings don't go to waste: Eric Mayer fires up a flame cap kiln to turn the cut canes into biochar on site, and the two dig into the math...

Arable Short 03 Biochar Part 1: Burn with Eric Mayer, Jack Sporer & Charlie Toledo visits a retired vineyard along Huichica Creek in Carneros, where Jack Sporer (FRES.CO Wines) and the Napachar turn turning three-year-old vine piles into biochar with a flame cap kiln instead of burning them off as smoke. Eric Mayer (Napachar) walks through the science of flame carbonization, from why a top-lit...

Arable : Episode 06, Ecology and Agriculture, Napachar, Eric Mayer x FRES.CO’s Jack Sporer brings together two voices reimagining what it means to farm responsibly in wine country: Eric Mayer of Napa Char, a doctoral graduate in climate science, now produces biochar with flame cap kilns, turning vineyard waste into a permanent form of carbon storage instead of smoke, and Jack Sporer of FRES.CO , a...

Arable Short 02 | Hybrid Grapes: Baco Noir with Matt Niess walks through a Sebastopol vineyard first planted by Italian immigrant Domenico Callegari, whose makeshift trellises of scrap metal and TV antennas still shape these century-old, dry-farmed Baco Noir vines. Matt shares why he's filling the vineyard's gaps with low-acid aromatic whites to build a field blend rather than more Baco Noir, and...

Arable Short 01 | Dry Farmed Apples: Gravensteins with Matt Niess walks through the Hallberg Butterfly Gardens in Sebastopol, home to an 80-year-old Gravenstein orchard on the property where Louise Hallberg was born and raised. Matt shows how this dry-farmed, old-growth orchard coexists with the adjacent butterfly preserve and explains why he co-ferments these apples with wild California grapes fo...

Episode 05, Hybrids and Community, with 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑹𝒆𝒏𝒇𝒓𝒐, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 280 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕 & 𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕 𝑵𝒊𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 brings together two influential voices in Northern California's fermentation and urban farming culture, Matt Niess of North American Press, a wine and cider producer focused on hybrids and dry-farmed heirloom apples, and Chris Renfro of community nonprofit, Two Eighty Project, and wine...

The Future Collective x Dos’ Bar LET'S GO DEEPER: ADVOCACY concluded a four-part panel discussion series exploring the intersection of local food and wine production, employers and farmworkers, and housing affordability and food security in Sonoma Valley. These recordings are the first installment of 𝑨𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆, a documentary series that reveals the human systems—labor, land, and culture—behind So...

The Future Collective x Dos’ Bar LET’S GET DEEP: COMMUNITY is the third panel discussion in a four-part series exploring the intersection of local food and wine production, employers and farmworkers, and housing affordability and food security in Sonoma Valley. These recordings are the first installment of 𝑨𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆, a documentary series that reveals the human systems—labor, land, and culture—behind...

The Future Collective x Dos’ Bar LET’S GET DEEP: LABOR is the second panel discussion in a four-part series exploring the intersection of local food and wine production, employers and farmworkers, and housing affordability and food security in Sonoma Valley. These recordings are the first installment of 𝑨𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆, a documentary series that reveals the human systems—labor, land, and culture—behind Son...

The Future Collective x Dos’ Bar LET’S GET DEEP: LAND launched a four-part panel discussion series exploring the intersection of local food and wine production, employers and farmworkers, and housing affordability and food security in Sonoma Valley. These recordings are the first installment of 𝑨𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆, a series that reveals the human systems—labor, land, and culture—behind Sonoma’s food and wine i...

The Future Collective at UpValley event, LET’S GET DEEP: VALUES-DRIVEN LOCAL BUSINESSES, was ticketed a dinner and panel discussion between young, values-driven local business owners Sam Coturri, Winery Sixteen600, Erinn Benziger-Weiswasser, Glen Ellen Star, and Lauren Feldman, Valley Bar + Bottle, moderated by Elaine Chukan Brown on community-minded business practices that promote resilience and...