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new Hope Well, and new wines!

October 15, 2022 Posted by Mimi

HUNTER’S MOON October 9, 2022 Friends, First and foremost, we finally have some Pinot Noir to sell and I’m so excited to share these wines with you. As you know from my earlier letter about Vendange 2021, these are the last wines I made at my old site, and for that their stories carry special […]

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Bated Breath – Vendange 2021

June 5, 2022 Posted by Mimi

‘New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings’ ~Lao Tzu We ended how we started, by singing on the land. That vintage 2021 marked the beginning of yet another decade in this millennium was a truth I only appreciated in retrospect. That it was the last harvest for me at 12345 Oak Road (seriously, that […]

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New Release 2021 wines from Hope Well

June 1, 2022 Posted by Mimi

Hi there, Friends, It’s been a few turns. You’ve changed. I’ve changed. Everything has changed. What, in the pandemic, we may have mistaken for a temporary, though massive, perturbation in our lives, may have in fact been the changing of a deeper rhythm of our lives. But that is another post, and today it is […]

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Silver Linings

January 19, 2022 Posted by Mimi

Catalyst: an agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action Most of you who follow Hope Well now know that 2020 was a catalyst. If you read Vendange 2020: the Hardest Lessons Yet, the events of 2020 were yet unfolding as I wrote that post, still eager to see what the harvest would yield, […]

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No Time Left

October 8, 2021 Posted by Mimi

Presented at the Acres USA Healthy Soils Summit August 26, 2021 Hi everyone, my name is Mimi, and my farm is in Oregon. I’m very honored to be a part of this day with you. I’d like to begin by sharing a story about where we are, as a way of beginning a conversation about […]

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Hope Well Journey

July 9, 2021 Posted by Mimi

There is no easy way to start a letter like this. For years you have been on this journey with me. We have traversed the hard-won successes and the setbacks of trying to reimagine agriculture at the family farm scale. When I left Bethel Heights, this farm, this place, was where I lived. It was […]

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Outcasts

January 4, 2021 Posted by Mimi

I have few more pungent olfactory memories than those from the late summers of my childhood. The grapes growing softer and sweeter, the smell of the grasses changing from green and sappy to spicy, sweet and dry, the crackling of insect noises in the fields and forests. But nothing could compare to the purple-black, heady […]

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Vendange 2020: The Hardest Lessons Yet

September 7, 2020 Posted by Mimi

Dear Friends, Outside of my field notes, I rarely write in the growing season or near the harvest. Keeping up with the work takes 110% physical and mental presence, but this year I have decided that some things should not be looked at in the rearview. I have wanted to maintain a spirit of both […]

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Who’s Really Trampling out the Vintage?

November 27, 2019 Posted by Mimi

Who’s Really Trampling out the Vintage?Una nota de gracias About a year back, when I was still working with my dear friends at Lingua Franca, I found myself navigating the darkest hour between their night harvest and my dawn harvest at Hope Well. Not enough time to go home and get a nap, too tired […]

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An urgent conversation about the power of regenerative agriculture

June 18, 2019 Posted by Mimi

Last month I had the honor of participating in this public seminar with three of my intellectual heroes, sponsored by my far-sighted and generous New York distributor, Polaner Selections.  The entire seminar, including audience participation, was recorded and is here presented in its entirety.  Please join us!  – Mimi Casteel “Please join carbon farming ‘bioneers’ Mimi Casteel […]

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An Earth Day Letter to my Friends, for my Friends

April 22, 2019 Posted by Mimi

My Comrades and Kin, As we revel in the gifts of spring, watching the vineyards push first growth, I beg your attention for a moment of community around our shared love for this land, for this earth. Many of you pledged your name to an agreement we have named The Oak Accord. The nature of […]

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New Year’s – Letters from the Edge

January 24, 2019 Posted by Mimi

Juxtaposed with the exuberance of spring, and the languidly long, warm, caramel colored summer nights that barely dip a toe in darkness before light brushes the mountains, and the frenetic energy and furious productivity of the harvest, winter can appear a hard stop. Amongst the seasons it is the metaphor for death, impenetrable, a mosaic […]

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Complexity is Stability

June 13, 2018 Posted by Mimi

June, 2018. The vineyard is practically vibrating with the energy of spring. We are embarking on a very ambitious goal of adding 50 species to the existing cover on the vineyard floor. I hope to achieve a diversity of perennial and annual grass, flower and (even some vegetable) species to have close to 100 species […]

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Invitation to join the Willamette Valley Oak Accord

December 14, 2017 Posted by Mimi

Printer Friendly (PDF) Mimi Casteel, Invitation to join the Willamette Valley Oak Accord At the Annual Meeting of the Willamette Valley Wineries Association, February 2017 Thank you for this opportunity to speak to you today about the movement we are now calling the Oak Accord. This movement sprung organically from conversations about the relationship between […]

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On Stewardship

December 14, 2017 Posted by Mimi

Printer Friendly (PDF) Mimi Casteel on Stewardship For the public announcement of the Willamette Valley Oak Accord, March, 2017 I spend a lot of time thinking about words and meaning. We underestimate the way our words, the rhetoric of our time, designs the present and the future, though we need only open a history book […]

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Glyphosate, Chronic Use and Chronic Toxicity, a Global Pandemic and Matter of Immediate National Security

December 14, 2017 Posted by Mimi

Printer Friendly (PDF) Glyphosate, Chronic Use and Chronic Toxicity, a Global Pandemic and Matter of Immediate National Security By Mimi Casteel, MS, Winegrower Hope Well   Objectives: Present Glypohsate MOA, unique properties, and its basis for Chronic Toxicity Present current patterns of use and implications Present platform for awareness and change

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Glyphosate in Vineyard Systems [Video]

April 20, 2016 Posted by Mimi

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  • “Is this thing on?” In which Mimi gets a Microphone November 23, 2022
  • new Hope Well, and new wines! October 15, 2022
  • Bated Breath – Vendange 2021 June 5, 2022
  • New Release 2021 wines from Hope Well June 1, 2022
  • Trees in Viticulture? Podcast with Mimi Casteel May 19, 2022
  • Mimi Casteel Revisited – Is Wine Big Enough, Organic Wine Podcast March 13, 2022
  • Silver Linings January 19, 2022
  • The Nitty Gritty on No-Till December 2, 2021
  • No Time Left October 8, 2021
  • Hope Well Journey July 9, 2021
  • Seeking an Optimum and Never a Maximum – Slow Wine Manifesto March 25, 2021
  • The Regenerate Forum: Regenerative Methods in Viticulture January 20, 2021
  • Outcasts January 4, 2021
  • “Controversial and even Incendiary” Interview with Organic Wine Podcast October 12, 2020
  • Vendange 2020: The Hardest Lessons Yet September 7, 2020
  • Mimi Casteel of Hope Well Wine in Oregon is Crusading for Regenerative Agriculture September 5, 2020
  • NYT: “From Good Wine, a Direct Path to the Wonders of Nature” July 23, 2020
  • Mimi interviewed by Levi Dalton on “I’ll Drink to That!” February 6, 2020
  • Tractor Time Podcast: Mimi Casteel on Regenerative Wine February 5, 2020
  • Mimi Casteel: Imbibe 75 2020 Wine Person of the Year January 22, 2020
  • Who’s Really Trampling out the Vintage? November 27, 2019
  • In Oregon Wine Country, One Farmer’s Battle to Save the Soil October 30, 2019
  • Mimi Casteel Is Betting the Farm August 23, 2019
  • An urgent conversation about the power of regenerative agriculture June 18, 2019
  • An Earth Day Letter to my Friends, for my Friends April 22, 2019
  • Over the Moon: Contemporary Biodynamics & Beyond April 10, 2019
  • New Year’s – Letters from the Edge January 24, 2019
  • A Lively Conversation about Soil Health August 29, 2018
  • Complexity is Stability June 13, 2018
  • Invitation to join the Willamette Valley Oak Accord December 14, 2017

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