Neither had plenty of attendees at a Cal Poly event Tuesday, until a team from Portugal hacked off a slab of cork from a tree at the San Luis Obispo university as part of a rare harvesting event ...
marking the first cork harvest in 30 years on campus. Revealing a striking difference between the layers, a orangish bark with a smoother texture made its debut after being hidden beneath the bumpy, ...
Climate change also affects the cork harvesting season, making it shorter and hotter. Fábio Mendes learned to harvest cork ...
But top quality corks come at a price. The cork industry has taken steps to produce taint-free closures, upgrading harvesting and cleaning methods and introducing innovative agglomerated corks ...