These images were made in 2023 during a two-week stay at François Blanchard's Château du Perron in France's Loire Valley. François is the fifth generation of his family to have tended these vineyards, solely relying on the help from his friends and family to harvest the grapes from this vineyard in permaculture teeming with life and diversity. He is committed to producing exclusively natural wines with minimal intervention and a deep respect for the land: No machines, no pesticides, no sulfites, no filtering. Just family, friendship, nature and hard manual labor.