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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2021. BY RANDY CAPAROSO.
“This holiday [Presidents’ Day] weekend has been super-busy!” proclaimed Frankie Arburua III, the sole proprietor of Lodi‘s F Ewe Sheep Company. Arburua is far from the first sheep rancher in Lodi, but he is the first that has also been established for this additional, specific purpose: to supply a natural, and sustainable, way of farming vineyards something that the Lodi Viticultural Area has in far greater number in sheer acreage than any other wine region in California, or the entire U.S for that matter.
We met up with Mr. Arburua this past Monday (February 15) in Schulenburg Vineyard, a meticulously farmed 18-acre block of spur pruned, old vine Zinfandel located at the corner-bend of Moore Rd., on the west side of Lodi’s Mokelumne River AVA. Arburua drove up in his truck pulling a trailer of 30 working ewes and had no problem coaxing them out onto the carpet of green, winter-grown grass to get to work, lik