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This giving season please support the passionate work of the Napa Green team. Being a nonprofit means constant fundraising. Our small but mighty four-person team depends on donations and grants for more than 50% of our budget. We are happy to have joined the Give!Guide this year. Even if you can only give $10 that instantly becomes $20 thanks to matching donations from six of our leading Napa Green certified growers and Napa Climate NOW! Beyond giving, please help us to spread the word within your own networks. All donations are tax deductible!
These funds support our work with over 60 growers to improve soil health and vineyard resilience to drought & heat stress, enhance biodiversity, ensure their teams feel safe and cared for, and help them play a proactive role in fighting climate change by preventing emissions and air pollution aboveground, and storing more carbon in the soil belowground.
Your donations support our work with over 100 vintners to maximize water and energy efficiency, shift to environmentally conscious purchasing and distribution, engage and care for their teams, and systematically reduce emissions from making and delivering wine, while also improving the bottom line.
We are so grateful for your support. The community that we have behind Napa Green contributes to all of our successes, like a $15,000 grant we were recently awarded from Patagonia. Sportago in St. Helena served as a bridge to that grant. So please reach out if you come across opportunities like these.
Wishing you joyous, peaceful holidays full of love.
-Anna Brittain and the Napa Green Team
We’ve organized a demonstration of three climate-smart burn technologies THIS FRIDAY. The weather may not cooperate but if we are rained out we will reschedule to January 20 (we’ll send an update to registrants tomorrow). The day will begin with Raymond Baltar from the Sonoma Ecology Center explaining the method behind the conservation/low-smoke burn technique and biochar production and then demonstrating a burn, along with a flame-capped kiln. The Clean Burn Company will have an AirBurners BurnBoss processing other piles of vines, and also creating biochar.
When: December 9, from 9-1 pm (backup date Jan. 20). Lunch will be provided. You can RSVP and find more information here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/459477057247
Do you want to help grow and support sustainability and climate action in the wine industry? Do you want to work with an amazing team of dedicated experts? Here is your chance! We are seeking a half-time Program Assistant with the flexibility to support general operations, but primarily focus on supporting Napa Green Winery certification. In this role you will work closely with the Winery Program Manager and our consulting Program Engineer to help facilitate the Winery certification and re-certification processes. This will include interfacing with winemakers, cellar managers, and operations directors to help guide them through the certification process. The most important skillset is exceptional organization.
If interested, please read the full job description . Cover letter and CV/resume should be sent to CEO Anna Brittain, anna@napagreen.org.
Has your vineyard and winery been making notable and measurable strides in sustainability and climate action? Then you should apply for the Green Medal award. Vineyards and wineries that participate in a sustainability program in California are eligible to apply in four award categories, recognizing outstanding achievement in sustainability: Leadership Award; Environment Award, Community Award, and Business Award. At least one Napa Green member has been recognized with an award every year, including the 2022 winner of the Environment Award, Trefethen Family Vineyards.
Start your application here: https://www.greenmedal.org/apply-about/ Application Deadline: January 20, 2023
This new scholarship benefits current vineyard or winery workers, their children and spouses/partners studying for a certificate and/or an associate degree in viticulture and/or enology at Napa Valley College, Santa Rosa Junior College, Allan Hancock College, Cuesta College, Walla Walla Community College or Umpqua Community College. The scholarship is geared toward individuals seeking skills that will allow them to advance above entry-level positions in viticulture and enology. Previous recipients of the scholarship are eligible to reapply in subsequent years while working to complete their certificate and/or associate degree.
Award Amount: $6,000-$10,000 per year. Read the full application guidelines here. The deadline for submission is March 6, 2023.
Any amount you can donate is greatly appreciated, and immediately doubles in value! The first $3,500 that is donated is being matched by generous donations from six leading growers – among the first to achieve the new Napa Green Vineyard certification. Huge thanks to Spottswoode Estate, Dominus Estate, Clif Family Winery, Sequoia Grove Winery, Rutherford Hill Winery, Chimney Rock, as well as Napa Climate NOW!, all partners in regional climate action.
Napa Green is grateful to our sponsors, who help fund our expanding operations and programs. If you are interested in becoming a Napa Green Sponsor please reach out to Napa Green Executive Director, Anna Brittain.
🌿 Did you know that less than 3% of philanthropic donations go to environmental work?
Please consider donating to Napa Green this giving season with one of several ways at any level!
Head to the link in our bio for details!
With gratitude and joy, we wish you a beautiful day & start to the holiday season from all of us at Team Green!
- Ben, Meghan, Anna, Marissa, Sierra & Megan
‘If not here, where? If not now, when?’
“The onus is on us as a world class wine growing region to be leaders in sustainability & climate action.”
- Executive Director of Napa Green, Anna Brittain
It’s been a big week at Napa Green and we want to take a moment to raise a glass to salute you all.
We are overjoyed to see so much support and invigorated interest in our mission towards sustainable practices and regenerative agriculture in the wine industry.
We have many more details, paired with educational & financial resources that are already up and rolling on our website. We will continue to share them all, one by one and in great detail here on socials as well.
For now please plan on joining us at our upcoming Town Hall meeting on Dec 7th at @stsupery. You can find more details at napagreen.org.
Cheers and Happy Friday Napa Valley. We are so proud to be a part of this amazing community!
⚠️ Important Announcement
Napa Green becomes the first sustainable wine growing certification to require the phaseout of Round Up.
Please find the link in our bio for the full press release and full suite of info & grower resources.
Join us on December 7th for our Napa Green Town Hall at @stsupery.
You’re invited to join us for a very special day at @dominusestatewinery on November 30th.
We’ll be briefly interviewing our speaker @nikki_silvestri right here on Instagram today at 2:00pm PST to hear more about what to expect at this event. See you then.
Curious to learn more? Join us at @dominusestatewinery on November 30th for a rare event and luncheon. Link in bio for details.
GREEN is the new black this season!!
Head to the link in our bio now and get your shirts, help a good cause and be an honorary part of Team Green this season! 💚
Let’s hear it for our Executive Director of Napa Green, the incomparable Anna Brittain for being named a 2023 Wine Industry Leader by @winebusinessmonthly!!
In their Sustainability Stewards section (which we love to see) we find Anna named in good company with inspired fellow leaders!
Head to our stories or the link in our bio for free access to the full November issue.
Cheers to the great work of our visionary Director Anna Brittain!!
Join us for the Soil & Shadow Implicit Bias Training on Thursday, November 30th at Dominus Estate with @nikki_silvestri.
‘Exploring what Regenerative Farming Systems can teach us about Regenerative Social Systems.’
This is a rarely-available, full-day leadership opportunity. For anyone who joined us for our 2022 & 2023 THRIVES/RISE Climate & Wine Symposiums and heard Nikki Silvestri speak our guess is that for you, like us, 60-minutes wasn’t enough.
Soil and Shadow works with C-Suite executives, leaders and teams to build the relational and professional development skills for high performance, diversity, equity and inclusion.
One of the elements that makes the Soil and Shadow expertise so relevant and valuable for Napa Green leaders is that their frameworks use living systems to model healthy social systems.
Napa Green will be covering half the cost of the tickets to this event. Register asap at the link in our bio.
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📸: Laine Kuehn
Congratulations to Napa Green Certified @boeschenvineyards on being featured in @pressdemo as a first to offer hazard pay and disaster insurance to seasonal agricultural workers! Read on for more and find the link in our bio to the full story..
“To Boeschen, committing to this small safety net in times of emergency isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s the way labor relations are headed in the wine business.
When vineyard crews showed up for this year’s harvest at Boeschen Vineyards, a small winery that operates largely out of a cave dug into a pretty hillside off Silverado Trail just north of St. Helena, they were asked to listen to a three-minute presentation.
Doug Boeschen, the business’ owner, informed these seasonal agricultural workers, among the most economically vulnerable in the North Bay, that the winery was now offering them a combination of hazard pay and disaster insurance.
Boeschen will provide an option to its workers — including the seasonal labor that pours into the region’s renowned vineyards for just a few days or weeks at a time. If the Air Quality Index climbs above 150, Boeschen’s workers will be able to choose between receiving time-and-a-half to remain on the job, or to take paid time off.
Boeschen will also pay its laborers if they are forced to leave a worksite under an evacuation order.”
This article also features other notable efforts on behalf of larger companies and regions working towards the same end. We highly recommend you read the full article!
Sierra is our Soil & Climate Specialist at Napa Green and her ask this year is that everyone consider donating to our small but mighty Team Green for Giving Season!
Here is more from @regenwithsierra:
“🎃 Happy Halloween Eve everyone! Today is my birthday, and I would be beyond thrilled if you would consider a donation to @napagreen to support a nonprofit focused on climate action in the wine industry 🍷🍾
@napagreen has the leading set of standards for sustainable practices, from soil to bottle. I am most proud of the work we do with winegrape growers to adopt regenerative agricultural practices in their vineyards.
Please consider supporting us in our mission! Click the link in bio for more! “
Thank you for having us @visitnapavalley! We had a great time talking to visitors about the many sustainability practices our Napa Green wineries and vineyards employ!
Stop into the Visit Napa Valley Visitor Center in Napa to learn more!
