Napa Valley Company Offers Unique Way To Reduce Agricultural Waste

By John Ramos, CBS San Francisco:

NAPA (KPIX) — With climate change raising awareness about the need to keep carbon out of the atmosphere, one Napa Valley company is offering a way to dispose of agricultural waste while keeping it out of the air.

Neatly pruned grapevines line Silverado Trail in Napa County. But most of the clippings end up in large burning piles that sends plumes of smoke across the valley.

While that has been a common method to dispose of clippings for generations, at Piña Vineyard Management, co-owner Davie Piña is betting that things are going to change.

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