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John and Molly Chester were living in a small apartment in Santa Monica when, suddenly, they had a problem. Their newly acquired dog, Todd, was barking eight hours a day. They tried everything to change his behavior but nothing worked. Neighbors complained and, finally, their landlord evicted them.
They then made the acquaintance of Alan York, who came with a reputation for instituting biodynamic practices in California vineyards. Think of biodynamic farming as organic agriculture to the nth degree, with highly specific criteria for creating the ideal environment for any agricultural enterprise.
Monoculture, where a single crop or single variety of a crop is grown, often leads to insect pest and disease problems. Since the pest resistance of plants in a monoculture is uniform, if a few plants are affected by a particular pest, there is a good chance that all of the crop will be affected by it. Keeping this in mind, 75 different varieties of fruit trees were planted.
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