Environment

1-7 September is Arbor week. For the month of September, Backsberg is giving away the tree of the year – the Halleria lucida – with every case of wine purchased. Similarly, you get a free bottle of wine with trees purchased from Starke Ayres Garden Centre in Cape Town.

Here’s a video detailing the construction of Food and Trees for Africa’s offices on Backsberg. Mind you, they are not just any offices, the building is made out of straw bales…

We recently had some nice coverage on the SABC’s Agriculture Today show as well on Classic FM’s Business Classic Wine Show. Check out the clip and the radio podcast/transcript…

Video is making big waves as medium in the online wine world. I think it’s a brilliant vehicle to tell stories. Here is my first attempt. Watch this space for more!

’2,712 cities, towns and municipalities in 83 countries have already committed to VOTE EARTH for Earth Hour 2009, as part of the worlds first global election between Earth and global warming.’ Backsberg invites you to get involved…

Having a party or corporate event can be a mini-environmental disaster . Conceptspark, an event management company, is trying to turn that around. They recently organised one of the first Carbon Neutral Events, in Johannesburg…