Over the last few days several hundred Cocoons were planted at the Cantera de Lucas mine (close to Alcover in the southern part of Catalonia). This has arguably been the most challenging trial planting to date due to the very bad terrain, with rocky, sandy and very limited soil structure. The owners of the mine and[…]
In continuation of the planting efforts, this week the plantation of close to 100 trees with the new Cocoons was finished in Pla de Santa Maria. The planting team had to deal with very rough (stoney, construction waste) subsoil, and even had to bring in a special drill to prepare the holes. Given these harsh[…]
Rasquera is a small village in the south-west part of Catalonia, located in a very dry area with increasing problems due to the effect of climate change (less but more intense rainshowers, for example last year they suffered a period with more than 5 months without any rain). In a forest area that burned down[…]
This week the Volterra staff in Palencia began planting to complement the trials in Catalonia as mentioned in other articles. The idea is to trial the new Cocoons also in other environments and Palencia is an interesting case given the intense summers (high temperatures and often 3 to 4 months without rain) and very arid, compacted soils. In this experiment[…]
This week we kicked off our first FTI planting at the famous Alvaro Palacios winery in Gratallops, Catalonia. Here we did a first exercise of about 100 Cocoons for interplanting (replacing dead vines). These wineries spend a lot of time and resources on watering the new plants and are very curious as to whether the[…]