A documentary series that profiles a new generation of farmers, winemakers, small business owners, and advocates who are reshaping relationships between land, labor, and community in the region. Directed by Aaron Brown, presented by The Future Collective. Learn more at thefuturecollective.org/arable.
Podcast Overview
A documentary series that profiles a new generation of farmers, winemakers, small business owners, and advocates who are reshaping relationships between land, labor, and community in the region. Directed by Aaron Brown, presented by The Future Collective. Learn more at thefuturecollective.org/arable.
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2/25/2026
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July 29, 2026
Arable Short 02 | Hybrid Grapes: Baco Noir with Matt Niess
<p>Arable Short 02 | Hybrid Grapes: Baco Noir with Matt Niess walks through a Sebastopol vineyard first planted by Italian immigrant Domenico Callegari, whose makeshift trellises of scrap metal and TV antennas still shape these century-old, dry-farmed Baco Noir vines. Matt shares why he's filling the vineyard's gaps with low-acid aromatic whites to build a field blend rather than more Baco Noir, and why he's left a patch of native vernal pool flowers untouched to protect the specialist bees that depend on them. Arable is a documentary series that profiles a new generation of farmers, winemakers, small business owners, and advocates who are reshaping relationships between land, labor, and community in the region. Directed by Aaron Brown, presented by The Future Collective. We hope these conversations help you understand the values of a new generation that might become the foundation of a regenerative and diversified economic future for Sonoma Valley. Learn more at www.thefuturecollective.org/arable. The project is funded by the Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund.</p>
July 15, 2026
Arable Short 01 | Dry Farmed Apples: Gravensteins with Matt Niess
<p>Arable Short 01 | Dry Farmed Apples: Gravensteins with Matt Niess walks through the Hallberg Butterfly Gardens in Sebastopol, home to an 80-year-old Gravenstein orchard on the property where Louise Hallberg was born and raised. Matt shows how this dry-farmed, old-growth orchard coexists with the adjacent butterfly preserve and explains why he co-ferments these apples with wild California grapes for his Wildcard bottling. He makes the case for keeping old orchards like this one standing rather than replacing them with vines: no irrigation, no spraying, and carbon staying locked in the soil, plus a chance to build a market for the agricultural diversity already growing in wine country.</p><p>Arable is a documentary series that profiles a new generation of farmers, winemakers, small business owners, and advocates who are reshaping relationships between land, labor, and community in the region. Directed by Aaron Brown, presented by The Future Collective. We hope these conversations help you understand the values of a new generation that might become the foundation of a regenerative and diversified economic future for Sonoma Valley. Learn more at www.thefuturecollective.org/arable. The project is funded by the Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund.</p>
July 9, 2026
Arable: Episode 05 | Hybrids and Community
<p><strong>Episode 05, Hybrids and Community, with</strong> 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑹𝒆𝒏𝒇𝒓𝒐, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 280 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕 & 𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕 𝑵𝒊𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 brings together two influential voices in Northern California's fermentation and urban farming culture, Matt Niess of North American Press, a wine and cider producer focused on hybrids and dry-farmed heirloom apples, and Chris Renfro of community nonprofit, Two Eighty Project, and wine shop and venue Friend of a Friend, who sees agriculture as an act of ecological creativity and farms as interdisciplinary sites of culture-building, where wine is just one output of a larger cycle of regeneration and design.</p>
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