PART 1 OF 3: Mondavi Winemaker Champions Sustainable Farming with Monarch Tractor, featuring Carlo Mondavi - Chief Farming Officer
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
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🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Join Corinna Bellizzi for press event coverage celebrating the launch of Monarch Tractor, the first all-electric, fully automated tractor with the ability to operate driverless (fully autonomous). You'll hear directly from Carlo Mondavi, Chief Farming Officer and co-founder. Elaine Chukan Brown, the wine expert and acclaimed wine writer MC's the event and is also featured. This serves as part 1 of 3 of our coverage of this event, culminating in a one-on-one interview with Carlo Mondavi himself.
About Carlo Mondavi
Carlo Mondavi is Chief Farming Officer of Monarch Tractors. Carlo is an expert viticulturist with experience in Organic, Biodynamic, and Permaculture Farming. He is a fourth generation winegrower from the world-renowned Mondavi family and is co-founder of Raen Winery, as well as a partner at Continuum Estate. Carlo is the co-founder of the Monarch Challenge, an effort focused on elevating farming by eliminating herbicides and powerful chemicals from farms in Sonoma, Napa and beyond. The Monarch Challenge is the namesake of Monarch Tractor.
Carlo Mondav has put the Monarch Tractor to work at his own RAEN winery. Founded In 2013 with his brother Dante, RAEN stands for “Research in Agriculture and Enology Naturally,” which speaks to the core ethos of Carlo’s farming & winemaking practices: to farm at the highest level and in unison with nature. RAEN implements permaculture, biodynamic and organic farming practices in its vineyards. Carlo Mondavi is an advocate in the wine industry for the sustainable farming practices he follows at RAEN. During his journey, he founded the Monarch Challenge in 2017 to bring awareness around clean farming practices, which ultimately led to the solution of the Monarch Tractor.
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| 0:44.6 | Hello, fellow do-goaters and friends. I'm your host, Karina Belizei. And today, I'm going to do things a little bit differently because I want to talk to you about a press event that I got to attend |
| 0:55.7 | just a little bit ago as I was able to connect with people in person for the first time |
| 1:01.9 | and a long time. And in celebration of the launch of a new piece of farming equipment, |
| 1:08.8 | that is going to change the way that we consider doing farming. |
| 1:12.6 | And that is Monarch Tractor. |
| 1:14.6 | Now, this was co-founded by Carlo Mondavi of the Mandevi family, |
| 1:19.6 | fourth generation wine farming individual who is an entrepreneur in his own right and also a winemaker. |
| 1:26.6 | I think he's somewhat of a celebrity |
| 1:28.5 | in many circles, especially those around Napa. And I had the opportunity to do a follow-up |
| 1:34.0 | interview with him today. So I wanted to first share with you some of my thoughts and also what |
| 1:40.4 | the focus is going to be over the course of the next few weeks for this podcast, |
| 1:44.9 | while also then giving you a snapshot, a view of what it was like to be at this particular press event |
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