Ludwig Advances

Dear winelovers,

The struggle between herbivores and the trees goes back many million years. It is much older than humanity. The trees are always striving to create landscapes of a high forest and the herbivores want to convert everything to prairie landscape for optimal pastures.

This struggle does also take place in our vineyards. Our ram Ludwig seems to have the natural instinct to try to kill all the plants that he does not see as food. It is astonishing just how quickly he can find the week plants and get going.

I moved the herd a couple of days ago and in the new area that I staked out were two young walnut trees. I noticed right away that Ludwig was very keen on these two trees. While I could protect the trees from his advances for a few minutes, he simply has much more time and patience than I do and ultimately he did win.

Final result: Ludwig 1 - Walnuts 0

All the best, Hoss