How a Doctor learned about health from his farm  Cooper Mountain
Vineyards Cooking Up A Story   It’s hard to tell how agriculture
is influenced by medicine, and how medicine is influenced by
agriculture because it kind of flows back and forth  My main job
is being a psychiatrist, a medical doctor in which I practice
mostly psychotherapy with some medication, and I mix that with
alternative medicine which includes acupuncture and homeopathy.
And then I run Cooper Mountain Vineyards. Grapes are a lot like
human beings in that when they’re real young they don’t show the
same maturity that an older vine, or older person, might show.
And so the grapes become much more elegant, sophisticated, and
balanced as human beings usually do too as they get older. Then,
of course, at some point in life, or in the age of the vine,
they start fading.  My growth as a Doctor, and as a Farmer and
Winemaker, have fed each other. As an example, I know in this
plot here, in the early 1980s, we were using some chemicals that
were av