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Posted On: July 14th 2026, 01:51 pm
When snails show up in the vineyards, Avondale sends in the ducks!
A posse of glossy Pekin ducks - known as Jonty's Ducks, and even honoured with their own wine - heads out on patrol each weekday morning across the vineyards. Together with wasps that handle the mealybug, they're just part of how this farm works with nature rather than against it.
Diverse cover crops, a soil balancing system, a cellar built to take full advantage of nature, and an estate now fully powered by solar... At Avondale in Paarl, organic and biodynamic farming speaks to a whole philosophy and approach to sustainability that runs through everything they do.
@avondalewinesa Terra Est Vita. Soil is life. They mean it literally.
#WinesOfSouthAfrica #TheresSunshineInside #BiodynamicWine #OrganicWine TerraEstVita
A posse of glossy Pekin ducks - known as Jonty's Ducks, and even honoured with their own wine - heads out on patrol each weekday morning across the vineyards. Together with wasps that handle the mealybug, they're just part of how this farm works with nature rather than against it.
Diverse cover crops, a soil balancing system, a cellar built to take full advantage of nature, and an estate now fully powered by solar... At Avondale in Paarl, organic and biodynamic farming speaks to a whole philosophy and approach to sustainability that runs through everything they do.
@avondalewinesa Terra Est Vita. Soil is life. They mean it literally.
#WinesOfSouthAfrica #TheresSunshineInside #BiodynamicWine #OrganicWine TerraEstVita
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