Biodynamic production, organic wine
Organic for us is not a specification, it is not a brand, it is not just a word but everything that this term should summarize. It is doing agriculture starting from an idea of land and territory. It is respect for nature in the awareness that agriculture is not only nature but an ethical mediation between the intervention of man and the earth, nature would spontaneously give totally different results; where today there is a vineyard or a cultivated field there would be a wood or a simple tangle of brambles, the word that sums up this approach most of all is: agroecology.
For us, organic also means respect for social relations within the territorial system in which we work and more generally respect for the economic context in which our work is experienced as a means and not as the only end. Unlike this, Organic is just a specification, just a brand, just a word.
Biodynamic production, organic wine
Organic for us is not a specification, it is not a brand, it is not just a word but everything that this term should summarize. It is doing agriculture starting from an idea of land and territory. It is respect for nature in the awareness that agriculture is not only nature but an ethical mediation between the intervention of man and the earth, nature would spontaneously give totally different results; where today there is a vineyard or a cultivated field there would be a wood or a simple tangle of brambles, the word that sums up this approach most of all is: agroecology.
For us, organic also means respect for social relations within the territorial system in which we work and more generally respect for the economic context in which our work is experienced as a means and not as the only end. Unlike this, Organic is just a specification, just a brand, just a word.
If a man owns a little property, that property is him, it’s part of him, and it’s like him. If he owns property only so he can walk on it and handle it and be sad when it isn’t doing well, and feel fine when the rain falls on it, that property is him, and some way he’s bigger because he owns it. Even if he isn’t successful he’s big with his property. That is so.”
But let a man get property he doesn’t see, or can’t take time to get his fingers in, or can’t be there to walk on it—why, then the property is the man. He can’t do what he wants, he can’t think what he wants. The property is the man, stronger than he is. And he is small, not big. Only his possessions are big—and he’s the servant of his property.
J. Steinbeck, The Grapes of wrath.