Kelly Mulville's guest appearances

Kelly Mulville

Greenhorns Radio

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

Organic Wine Podcast

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Joel Salatin

Gabe Brown

Jason Bradford

Zach Bush

James Johnson

Sandor Katz

Andy Schwartz

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Eric Hoffman

Peter McCoy

Rachel Budde

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Kelly Mulville’s life has been guided by an awe and respect for the natural world and a deep appreciation for its beauty. This led him to want to learn how to farm in a way that protected or enhanced the natural world, and made him a better listener and observer of what made ecosystems work. Through his years of farming he has attempted to answer the question of how we can turn agriculture from one of the most destructive forces on the planet into the method we can use to repair that damage and restore biodiversity and health to ecosystems? Kelly’s journey has led him to test various kinds of grazing-based viticulture in many contexts throughout the west and south-west US, and to ultimately build a vineyard system that incorporates animals year round in central California at Paicines Ranch. The work he is doing is laying the foundation for what I think will be the future of viticulture, and Kelly lays out the vision and principles that guide it. Kelly is working with vinifera that he basically doesn’t have to spray because of the system he has implemented and his attention to soil health, biodiversity, and amazing new findings around SAP brix analysis that is revolutionizing our understanding of how we can prevent insect pest issues. We get into the details of the Watson trellising system he uses now to create a kind of vine forest rather than a vineyard, as well as how to potentially integrate sheep year round into an existing VSP trellis system, ground squirrel management, the ecology of birds in viticultural and agricultural systems, and the amazing return of an endangered species for which his vineyard is helping to provide desirable habitat. If you haven’t heard of Kelly Mulville, or the work he’s doing at Paicines Ranch, this is potentially revolutionary stuff. I could not be more impressed with Kelly’s humble, passionate, and compassionate approach to viticulture. He grounds everything he does in science and real, detailed data, because he sees everything he has accomplished so far as just the beginning, and he wants others to be able to learn from and build upon this work to do even better. https://paicinesranch.com/ Sponsor: https://www.centralaswine.com/

Kelly Mulville’s life has been guided by an awe and respect for the natural world and a deep appreciation for its beauty. This led him to want to learn how to farm in a way that protected or enhanced the natural world, and made him a better listener and observer of what made ecosystems work. Through his years of farming he has attempted to answer the question of how we can turn agriculture from one of the most destructive forces on the planet into the method we can use to repair that damage and restore biodiversity and health to ecosystems? Kelly’s journey has led him to test various kinds of grazing-based viticulture in many contexts throughout the west and south-west US, and to ultimately build a vineyard system that incorporates animals year round in central California at Paicines Ranch. The work he is doing is laying the foundation for what I think will be the future of viticulture, and Kelly lays out the vision and principles that guide it. Kelly is working with vinifera that he basically doesn’t have to spray because of the system he has implemented and his attention to soil health, biodiversity, and amazing new findings around SAP brix analysis that is revolutionizing our understanding of how we can prevent insect pest issues. We get into the details of the Watson trellising system he uses now to create a kind of vine forest rather than a vineyard, as well as how to potentially integrate sheep year round into an existing VSP trellis system, ground squirrel management, the ecology of birds in viticultural and agricultural systems, and the amazing return of an endangered species for which his vineyard is helping to provide desirable habitat. If you haven’t heard of Kelly Mulville, or the work he’s doing at Paicines Ranch, this is potentially revolutionary stuff. I could not be more impressed with Kelly’s humble, passionate, and compassionate approach to viticulture. He grounds everything he does in science and real, detailed data, because he sees everything he has accomplished so far as just the beginning, and he wants others to be able to learn from and build upon this work to do even better. <a href="https://paicinesranch.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://paicinesranch.com/</a> Sponsor: <a href="https://www.centralaswine.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.centralaswine.com/</a>

Kelly Mulville - Regenerative Grazing-Based Viticulture at Paicines Ranch

Kelly Mulville, a veteran agricultural consultant, is the Vineyard Director at Paicines Ranch in San Benito County, California. For more than 25 years, Kelly has been obtaining impressive results by merging his experience in viticulture with his understanding of Allan Savory’s holistic grazing management techniques. His approach to extended-season vineyard livestock grazing and other ecological practices continue to capture an audience of vineyard managers around the globe. Kelly and John discuss in this episode:  How Kelly developed practices around incorporating sheep into his vineyard management. Flooring a wildlife biologist with the bird population data on Kelly’s vineyard after implementing new practices. The role plant-grazing animals play in reducing insect pressures. Kelly’s cover cropping strategy and how it has led to a diversity of 50 species of plants growing in the vineyard. The specific holistic management techniques inspired by Allan Savory’s work that have contributed to vineyard success. The adaptability of these practices on other crops like nuts and tree crops. 

Kelly Mulville, a veteran agricultural consultant, is the Vineyard Director at Paicines Ranch in San Benito County, California. For more than 25 years, Kelly has been obtaining impressive results by merging his experience in viticulture with his understanding of Allan Savory’s holistic grazing management techniques. His approach to extended-season vineyard livestock grazing and other ecological practices continue to capture an audience of vineyard managers around the globe. Kelly and John discuss in this episode: <ul> <li>How Kelly developed practices around incorporating sheep into his vineyard management.</li> <li>Flooring a wildlife biologist with the bird population data on Kelly’s vineyard after implementing new practices.</li> <li>The role plant-grazing animals play in reducing insect pressures.</li> <li>Kelly’s cover cropping strategy and how it has led to a diversity of 50 species of plants growing in the vineyard.</li> <li>The specific holistic management techniques inspired by Allan Savory’s work that have contributed to vineyard success.</li> <li>The adaptability of these practices on other crops like nuts and tree crops.</li> </ul>

Episode #80: Kelly Mulville

For the past 25 years Kelly has managed and consulted with vineyards, farms and ranches throughout the western USA, Spain, Australia and China. In 2012 he spent two months in Australia and New Zealand giving presentations and workshops on extended-season vineyard grazing. His studies include Ecological Horticulture at UC Santa Cruz (Farm and Garden Program), Viticulture at UC Davis and Holistic Management with The Center for Holistic Management. For the past 15 years his work has focused on combining his experience in farming and viticulture with holistic management in order to create more ecologically, socially and economically sound farming and grape growing practices. This usually involves a considerable amount of help from livestock. This episode has been sponsored by Hearst Ranch.   “One of the reasons I got interested in viticulture is because it was a fairly progressive branch of agriculture.” [10:15] — Kelly Mulville on Greenhorn Radio

For the past 25 years Kelly has managed and consulted with vineyards, farms and ranches throughout the western USA, Spain, Australia and China. In 2012 he spent two months in Australia and New Zealand giving presentations and workshops on extended-season vineyard grazing. His studies include Ecological Horticulture at UC Santa Cruz (Farm and Garden Program), Viticulture at UC Davis and Holistic Management with The Center for Holistic Management. For the past 15 years his work has focused on combining his experience in farming and viticulture with holistic management in order to create more ecologically, socially and economically sound farming and grape growing practices. This usually involves a considerable amount of help from livestock. This episode has been sponsored by <a href="http://www.hearstranch.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hearst Ranch</a>. <h2></h2> “One of the reasons I got interested in viticulture is because it was a fairly progressive branch of agriculture.” [10:15] — Kelly Mulville on Greenhorn Radio

Episode 146: Kelly Mulville