{"id":16944,"date":"2019-09-27T08:25:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T13:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=16944"},"modified":"2019-09-27T08:34:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T13:34:15","slug":"bear-harvests-grapes-in-california-vineyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/27\/bear-harvests-grapes-in-california-vineyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear Harvests Grapes in California Vineyard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Navarro Vineyards is located in Mendocino County in Northern California. We traveled there several years ago and discovered a heartwarming welcome and a delightful one of a kind visits at numerous wineries and homes. We\u2019ll always treasure our time visiting there where kindness and goodwill seem to predominate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"322\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/navarro4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16947\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/navarro4.jpg 322w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/navarro4-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><figcaption>Babydoll sheep are used for controlling vineyard weeds at Navarro Vineyards.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Mendocino County wineries came to mind today, when I read a short article about Navarro Vineyards, one of the delightful wineries we visited. The winery is located in Philo and when we visited we learned about their extensive interest in using babydoll sheep to control vineyard weeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The news regarding Navarro Vineyards involved cameras that they have set up in the vineyards. In August one of the cameras caught sight of wildlife including fox and a large bear trotting or trudging past Navarro Vineyards. Later in September, a bear is caught on camera munching on the almost ready for harvesting Pinot Noir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"323\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/navarro2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16946\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/navarro2.jpg 323w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/navarro2-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><figcaption>Beautiful landscaping at Navarro Vineyards in Mendocino County, California<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On the Navarro Vineyard Facebook page for one of the videos, \u201cNavarro&#8217;s taste-tester is back to &#8220;get it when the gettin&#8217; is good.&#8221; As we&#8217;re continuing our harvest, our nighttime friend continues to munch on Pinot Noir from our high-elevation vineyards. We&#8217;ll be ready to harvest these grapes in the next few weeks, so hopefully this big guy leaves some for us.\u201d Check out the photos on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/navarrovineyards\/posts\/?ref=page_internal\">Navarro Vineyard\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the Wine Trail Traveler reviews on <a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/california\/mendocinoregion.php\">Mendocino wineries<\/a>. When you have time travel to and discover the wineries of Mendocino County including <a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/california\/navarro.php\">Navarro Vineyards<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheers,<br>\nKathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Bear Harvests Grapes in California Vineyard\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=16944\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bear goes after vineyard grapes in Medocino County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[4130,15,1599,90],"class_list":["post-16944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-bears","tag-california","tag-harvest","tag-vineyards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16944"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16951,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16944\/revisions\/16951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}