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Thinking About the Mountaintop ~ Justin Style ~ While My Guitar Gently Weeps
There’s not very much to say. It’s all been said by so many.
Still, I just had to briefly weigh in, because this is now a giant PR nightmare for the current owners of Justin Vineyards. What a giant mistake… Sigh…
What anyone in agriculture should consider, in the future
- Common Sense is good.
- If you don’t have any, call in a PR expert… Any PR expert.
- Concern for the environment is even better.
- Bring in someone like Jim Pratt, of Cornerstone Certified Vineyards, who thinks about what is sustainable and what isn’t.
- Not stripping land is really the best...
- What’s going to happen, when the rains come and there’s nothing with roots to hold back the land from slipping away?
- All I have is common sense, so it might have been easy to see… Might have been.
I learned this from Miss Dumas, Sophomore English Teacher
- Good, better, best: never let it rest, until the good is better and the better is best…
NEWS HEADLINE: Justin Vineyards owners to donate 380-acre site where oaks were cut down.
Great. Now whomever inherits the land will have to deal with the runoff.
- The family will also repair grading work and stop construction of a large reservoir
- The county won’t pursue code enforcement action due to the donation and land remediation
Okay, great; however, I wouldn’t accept the land for AT LEAST a couple of years, while it settles back in, as the soils erode… Just a personal thought. All I can think of is the song, “While my guitar gently weeps,” because I’m a tree hugger.
[Photo taken by David Middlecamp is on The Tribune Website, along with a longer version of the story by Lindsey Holden.]
