Tawse Family Vineyards

120 acres3955 Cherry Ave, Vineland, Ontario, L0R 2C0Augusta Van Muyen

Regenerative Agriculture means having a living farm. A soil that is full of micro-organisms, insects, nutrients and life, A diverse cover crop that protects and feeds the soil. A multitude of animal life from insects to birds to the sheep that graze the land, creating a wine that speaks of terroir.

Products

  • Wine
  • Eggs

Regenerative Practices

  • Minimize soil disturbance
    • Minimum-till 
      Minimum tillage is a soil cultivation practice that reduces the number, depth (0-10 cm), and intensity of tillage operations (no inversion of the soil) to minimize soil disturbance.
  • Keep the soil covered and maintain living roots year-round
    • Cover crops 
      Plants grown alongside, preceding, or following cash crops with the purpose of increasing soil fertility, reducing soil erosion, and suppressing weeds.
  • Protect and enhance biodiversity
    • Pollinator buffers 
      Patches or rows of diverse flowering vegetation that provide pollinators with permanent habitats and food sources. they can be planted as intercrops or at the edge of fields.
  • Optimize input use
    • Manure 
      Manure (also known as livestock manure) is a type of soil amendment rich in nitrogen that integrates soil organic matter back into the soil and feeds the soil food web.
    • Biostimulants 
      Any substance or microorganism applied to plants or soil to stimulate the plant’s ability to assimilate applied nutrients or provide benefits to plant development. biostimulants include amino acids, chitosan (biopolymers), seaweed extracts, and humic substances.
    • Minimal to no use of synthetic pesticides 
      Any product, device, organism, substance or thing that is manufactured, represented, sold or used as a means for directly or indirectly controlling, preventing, destroying, mitigating, attracting or repelling any pest (health canada, 2024).\r\nin canada, the most used pesticide active ingredient types are glyphosate, 2,4-d, glufosinate ammonium, and mcpa (all herbicides). then, there are also insecticides and fungicides such as chlorpyrifos, clothianidin, or chlorothalonil.
    • Minimal to no use of synthetic fertilizers 
      Fertilizers that are derived from synthetic sources. \r\nas plants extract nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and sulfur are the four most important nutrients) from the soil during every growing season, they must be replenished through fertilizers, manure, legume cover crops (through nitrogen fixing), and compost added to fields annually.
  • Integrate animals on the lands and ensure their welfare
    • Adaptive multi-paddock grazing 
      Adaptive multi-paddock (amp) grazing is a regenerative grazing system in which livestock are grazed in small paddocks and are moved frequently, resulting in short but intense grazing intervals. the system of multiple small paddocks means that cattle do not circle back to a pasture for a long period of time, allowing for long pasture recovery periods. the word “adaptive” in amp means adapting the duration of livestock on a pasture according to forage availability and the weather, all in the goal of avoiding overgrazing and overstocking.
    • Multi-species grazing 
      A grazing system in which multiple species of livestock (cattle, sheep, chickens, etc.) are grazed on the same area of land, either at the same time or following one another in the rotation.

Observations

  • Increase in organic matter in the soil
  • Increase in beneficial insects
  • increase in plant biodiversity
  • Higher quality fruit produced

Certifications

  • Organic (Eco-Cert)

How to buy

  • On-site Retail, LCBO, Online
Contact
tawsewinery.ca[email protected]9055629500
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