The green economy is bringing together some interesting partnerships. From California’s Russian River DeLoach Vineyards joins up with Brooklyn’s Kingsborough Community College to start an Urban
Farm on the 71-acre campus in Manhattan Beach, located at the southern tip of Brooklyn, New York. Wine & Spirits magazine named DeLoach Vineyards a Top 100 Winery for the tenth time in the winery’s history in 2009. DeLoach has grown its small-lot vineyard designate wine program, converted to organic and biodynamic farming practices, and implemented traditional Burgundian winemaking techniques such as open-top wood fermentors, native yeast fermentations, and hand punch-downs. Kingsborough serves a widely diverse student population and ranks among the top community colleges in the country in associate’s degrees awarded to minority students. DeLoach Vineyards announced
Cali Vineyard & NY College to build Urban Farm
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