At the forefront of modern sustainable agriculture is the regenerative practice of integrating grazing animals into the cropping system.  Today that means bringing sheep into the orchards and vineyards to enhance the land and soils.   The essence of a successful grazing operation begins before the animals arrive. Cover crops are actually the bedrock of the system.  These diverse and complex covercrops are selected not only to enhance the soil structure and to benefit the grape vines to improve nutrient availability to the vines, as well as nutrient uptake. 

With the addition of sheep these covercrops also serve as an important feed source for growing lambs. Our vineyard lamb typically are brought into the vineyard and orchard landscape in February as the first flush of growth in the cover crops begins as the soil and air temperatures begin to rise. Rotational grazing is implemented to ensure the appropriate selection of feed is consumed in the vineyard and orchard floors.  There is a synergistic relationship between vines, lambs, covercrop and soils.  The sheep in the process of feeding the forage available convert the feed to manure which in turn offers nutrients to the surrounding vines and trees.