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A soil temperature monitor in a vineyard

"Those sorts of things all help to create a healthier environment for the vineyard and reduce the chemicals that you might otherwise put on,"
Mr Richards said.

A woman and man in a vineyard

a bunch of red winegrapes hand from a vine

"The green waste that you collect around your garden gets picked up and then it goes off, gets sorted and then it gets windrowed and composted to Australian standards and then it's available for reuse,"
she said.

Three green bins lined up next to one another with different coloured lids.

"We get an evening out of the temperatures, water saving and weed suppression."
A photo of a vineyard at a winery in regional victoria

"[Instead] using urban green waste as a closed loop system in terms of taking waste away from households and reusing and repurposing it out on farms."
A woman soil testing

A woman testing soil temperature

"Our knowledge increases greatly and your decision making, the day to day work in the vineyard, benefits I think."
A man holding a bottle of wine

"Small increments in grape quality may not be compensated for by what we may need to pay for the compost to be put out."

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