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LangeTwins Winery earns conservation award, is featured in book
Randy Lange, left, and Brad Lange, owners of LangeTwins Winery, discuss their inclusion in “Generations on the Land,” a book about conservation by author Joe Nick Patoski. The LangeTwins winery was awarded the Sand County Foundation Leopold Conservation Award for their efforts to preserve wildlife in the area surrounding the winery.
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LangeTwins Winery earns conservation award, is featured in book
Brad Lange, co-owner of LangeTwins Winery, explains how planting 200 elderberry bushes in the vineyard has helped preserve habitat for the valley elderberry longhorn beetle.
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LangeTwins Winery earns conservation award, is featured in book
LangeTwins Winery is featured in “Generations on the Land — A Conservation Legacy” by Joe Nick Patoski.
Dan Evans/News-Sentinel
LangeTwins Winery earns conservation award, is featured in book
The LangeTwins Winery is been included in “Generations on the Land,” a book about conservation by author Joe Nick Patoski, for the company’s efforts to preserve wildlife in the area surrounding the winery.
- The Lange Family: Five generations of farming
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Brad and Randy Lange, who own and operate LangeTwins Vineyards
and Winery, are the fourth of five generations in the farming
business.
The first generation, the twins’ great-grandparents, moved from
Germany to the Lodi area in the 1870s. They farmed melons on a
small patch of land near what is now Kettleman Lane and Hutchins
Street today.
The Langes’ grandfather switched his operation from melons to
grapes in 1916 on a ranch on Davis Road.
Brad Lange’s two children, Kendra and Philip, and Randy Lange’s
three children, Marissa, Joe and Aaron, constitute the fifth
generation to be involved in the family operation. The family
decided in 2003 to add a winery to their Acampo property off Lower
Sacramento and Jahant roads.
The key for five generations to continue the family operation
comes from making it voluntary.
“We never said to our children, ‘You will come back to the
farm,’” Brad Lange said. “They’re here because they want to be
here.”
— Source: Brad and Randy Lange
- About the elderberry beetle
-
Males are a half-inch to one inch long, with their antennae as
long as their body at times.
Females are broader than males and have shorter antennae. Adult
males have red-orange wing covers with four spots. Females have
dark-colored wing covers. Adults eat elderberry leaves and flowers.
Larvae eat the inside of elderberry stems from elderberry bushes
along rivers and streams. Adults are actively feeding and mating
from March to June.
Birds, lizards, European earwigs and Argentine ants are the
greatest predators, but the most significant threat to the beetle
is the destruction of elderberry bushes.
— Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Where to buy the book
-
You can get “Generations on the Land — A Conservation Legacy,”
through Texas A&M University Press, 800-826-8911.
— Source: LangeTwins Vineyards and Winery
Posted: Friday, May 27, 2011 12:00 am
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Updated: 12:45 pm, Sat May 28, 2011.
LangeTwins Winery earns conservation award, is featured in book
By Ross Farrow
News-Sentinel Staff Writer
Lodinews.com
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One of the Lodi area’s largest wineries is featured in a book
recognizing its role in land conservation, solar energy and
preserving critters on and near their vineyard.
LangeTwins Winery and Vineyards was one of eight farms
throughout the country awarded the Leopold Conservation Award by
the Sand County Foundation for voluntary conservation and ethical
land management.
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Updated: 12:45 pm.
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