Martin Obenaus

AUSTRIA > WEINVIERTEL

Martin Obenaus

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Martin Obenaus

I’m Martin Obenaus from Glaubendorf in Weinviertel. I love working my vineyards and interacting with the creatures that live around them. “Unchained” is my credo in all aspects. Farmed biodynamically, my vineyards shall once again turn into an ecosystem in which interventions become less and less necessary. I protect, support, let nature take its course, I unchain it. Hunting shapes the environment in a similar way as winegrowing. It might seem unusual to strive for a development in which the hunter becomes dispensable and the nature is unchained. But so does my will to return to winegrowing the way our ancestors used to do it – the low intervention way. I have taken this path which will be a never-ending one. The ecosystem changes every year but so do we. My path towards interfering less, towards “unchaining” nature is filled with a lot of work. No pains, no gains. Luckily, I’m full of energy, an “activist” if you like – and an artisan. If you do your stuff yourself, you don’t have to buy it and you can also develop a personal connection to the piece. To give an example, I have helped to design the kettle for the teas I bring out in the vineyards. I use a “worm box” in which worms and bacteria convert vegetables into a highly effective compost earth. I blend this earth into my compost tea and spray my vineyards. I build my own “insect hotels” designed for harbouring those indispensable little helpers. These hotels are then placed in suitable locations in the vineyards. Bio-diversity, flora and fauna – all of them are an important part of my philosophy and key to biodynamics.

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