Details of participating peer networking groups.
| Group name | Topics | Past and current activities | |
|---|---|---|---|
| County-level groups | Vit Women (est. ~2005) 200+ members | Viticulture farming challenges | • Email-based discussion to provide safe space for female viticulturists to share information, ask advice, and make industry connections. • Occasional social events. |
| Neighborhood Alliance for Vineyard Protection (NAViP) (est. 2018) 30 members regularly attend meetings 154 total members on email list | Viticulture farming challenges (emphasis on pests and diseases) | • Email-based discussion for members to share information and ask advice; three to five meetings per year. • Website (www.navip.org) with interactive map to access publicly sourced vineyard contact details. • Facilitates and supports smaller neighborhood groups in Napa County. • Group data-sharing projects: powdery mildew spore counts and treehopper girdle monitoring. | |
| Neighborhood groups | Rutherford Central (est. 2012) 8 members regularly attend meetings 20 total members on email list | Mealybugs, Pierce’s disease, Grapevine red blotch disease | • Four to six meetings of 1.5 hr per year. Host speakers for demonstrations and presentations. • Primer factsheet on grape mealybug monitoring and management. • Coordinated vine and block removal to mitigate leafroll and red blotch diseases. • Collaborative male mealybug trapping project to track spread and coordinate pesticide sprays. Data are shared with adjacent neighborhood group. • Contact list established for communicating with members. |
| Jahant Area Vineyard Alliance (JAVA) (est. 2019) 25 members regularly attend meetings 70 total members on email list | Vine mealybug | • Multiple winter meetings, including hosting invited speakers. • Trapping and mapping project: traps monitored and maps created of trap counts and where mating disruption deployed. Data are shared in meetings and via email and short videos (2 to 5 min). • Website: www.lodigroweralliance.net | |
| Hillside (est. 2022) 8 members | Vine mealybug | • Three online meetings of 50 min per year. Members share practices adopted, geographic extent of mealybug populations, schedules of practices. • Contact list created for members to communicate with each other. • Exerted collective pressure to have Argentine ant bait approved by organic certification agency. | |
| Oakville West (est. 2022) 5 members regularly attend meetings 12 total members on email list | Vine mealybug and general viticultural challenges | • Two to three meetings of 1 hr per year are an open forum for sharing ideas and establishing relationships. • Email list established for communicating with members. | |
| Rutherford North (est. 2023) (currently inactive) | Vine mealybug | • Two meetings in 2023 and 2024 to educate members about control strategies and encourage members to deploy mating disruption for vine mealybug. | |
| Prichard Hill (est. 2024) 20 members | Vine mealybug, Grapevine red blotch disease, powdery mildew, wildfire | • Three in-person meetings in first year and a separate online meeting with a guest presenter. • Contact list for members to communicate with each other. |