Lark Hill

Lark Hill was established in 1978 by Sue & Dave Carpenter, high on the escarpment above Bungendore, 30km North East of Canberra. Lark Hill is a cold vineyard and at 860m elevation, is one of the highest plantings in the Canberra District. The soils are shallow depleted shale over clay, and vineyard receives ~600mm of rainfall annually. In 2002, their son Chris joined the winemaking team at Lark Hill. The vines were planted in 1978 & are not ve...

Biodynamic farming is based on a series of lectures by Rudolph Steiner given in the late 1920s, addressing the problems of increased mechanisation of farming and abundance of chemical sprays and synthesised fertilizers. At its heart, Biodynamics treats a farm as a living organism - a interconnected web where crop health comes as function of farm health, not in isolation. The first step to this is using the Organic farming standards to eliminat...