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This year, we've tilled the soil with a horse. We've been so glad with it that we are going to purchase a hose in the very future.
It's absolutely not a marketing tool; it's something that works out extraordinarily!
Trying it once sufficed to truly convinced us!
Future may end up being a move toward the past.
We are fully going to till the soil with a horse on Chateauneuf-du-Pape
That's a first step, since we would need a complete stable..
We decided to start by Chateauneuf-du-Pape as this is a high end vineyard that can pay back on the investment.
Tilling with an horse being more expensive, yet only if we're talking short term investment.
A horse, indeed, only needs grass, water, and a lot of love; as opposed to a tractor, which needs a lot of gas..
Actually, this sole idea of saying "we will stop consuming gas to cultivate our soils" appeals me a lot!
We've tried it on 1 Ha, and it was fabulous;
We're going to buy a horse
Educate ourselves, and I believe we will then compete each other to be the lucky one to accompany the horse through the vineyard..!
"Will the horse have a woodcock name too?"
No..not at all..we didn't ask ourselves this kind of question..
However, the one we've tried this year, which was brought by a professional "cocher laboureur"
was named "Happy."
"Happy" really fitted the horse as having him was a true moment of happiness.
It was during this spring, in the midst of a complicated period when plenty of problems happened in the vineyards,
when we thus needed to take care of the vines, using a lot of gas for the tractors...
a sort of frenzy of treatment because the weather didn't allow us any space in our moves..
So, to find ourselves, alone with our horse, in the silent place of La Crau, an already magical vineyard...
it should have lasted for ever...as it's the way it should be.