STELLENBOSCH, South Africa (AP) — The quacking is soft at first amid the vineyards that roll for miles in this South African wine-making town. But then the duck handlers whistle and wave their white ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At Vergenoegd Löw Wine Estate, which is just outside Cape Town in South Africa.an employee blows a whistle and a “parade” of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is the moment a flock of 1,200 ducks paraded through a wine estate on their daily commute to the vineyards, where they help ...
On Vergenoegd Wine Estate in Stellenbosch, South Africa, about a thousand Indian runner ducks parade twice a day into a vineyard to rid it of pests. It's a remarkably orderly scene. Unlike your ...
A vineyard in South Africa has thousands of employees that live, eat, and work on site. Yet housing isn’t a problem for these workers because they’re small, feathery, and dedicated — and they happen ...
One of the many things wine aficionados look for is a sense of place in what they’re drinking: terroir, in the sommelier’s parlance. It sets two Rieslings from different vineyards apart and arises ...
The quacking is soft at first amid the vineyards that roll for miles in Stellenbosch (STELL-in-bosh), a wine-making town in western South Africa. But then the duck handlers whistle and wave their ...
Indian runner ducks have been used in Asia for thousands of years to control pests. Now they're used in a South African vineyard to eat snails that damage the vines. (Sarah Birnbaum for NPR) On ...