PODCASTS & ARTICLES
Disruptors for Good Podcast | “Making Sustainable Farming Economically Superior With the Tesla of Tractors”
“The true definition of sustainable is all over the place, blurring the root meaning of what sustainable is. With that said, truly sustainable farming is leaving the soils and environment farmed as good, if not better, than before to allow for life and farming to continue on healthily. This means no herbicides or systemics and a basic regenerative practice to help build soil health and biodiversity on the farm. Once this balance is found on a farm, there is the opportunity for a healthier farm team meaning healthier community and, most importantly, a better and healthier product to share and sell.”
SF Chronicle | “Self-driving tractors could be widespread on California farms by next year” Mondavi felt strongly about eliminating synthetic pesticides and decreasing carbon emissions, and he started a campaign called the Monarch Challenge.
BBC Sounds - People Fixing the World | “Saving California’s Butterflies”
“The Challenge is really to make Sonoma and Napa herbicide free… We’ve lost connection to land, and to Mother Earth. The Challenge is to create a path forward for farmers to move away from chemicals.”
Before it Happened Podcast | “In the Pursuit of Cleaner Farming, Making Great Wine and Chasing Monarch Butterflies”
“We want to be a solution to making farmers safer, healthier, happier, and more profitable at the end of the day, so that we can continue to do what we love. I see a really bright future in agriculture, and it's not just in getting rid of the chemicals, it’s in making farms more successful and more profitable.”
Future of XYZ Podcast | “The Future of Viniculture”
“My goal for the next 100 years is to be in the company of the great wines of the world, while helping protect our planet in the way we need to. If we don’t start acting now, we won’t have that path going forward.”
SevenFifty Daily “Why Organic Winegrowing can be More Profitable than Conventional”
“When you’re using synthetics and you’re using herbicides, you’re hurting not only your soil’s microbiome, you’re hurting the plant that you’re farming”
BBC “The Race to Save California’s Rarest Butterflies”
"I don't know any of my farmer friends that wakes up in the morning and says, 'I want to go spray chemicals.' Not one of them. They're terrible for the soil microbiome and the farm algae.”
RAEN Instagram - Carlo Mondavi shares about the birth of the Monarch Challenge & progress made since 2016 (2021, 2022)
SommTV Podcast with Carlo Mondavi | April 2021
PANELS
Napa Green Climate Friendly Farming Workshop, April 2021, “The Why, How and Benefits of Climate Friendly Farming” April 2021
Future of Wine Americas 2021, “A future where renewable farming energy is the power & organic the new conventional. What does the roadmap look like?”, June 2021
Porto Protocol, “The business sense of internalizing climate change”, July 2021
Future of Wine Americas 2021, “Debate: Organic is big: But is it worse for climate change than lower intervention wine making?”, June 2021