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 […]
Letters from the Edge
Invitation to join the Willamette Valley Oak Accord
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 […]
On Stewardship
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 […]
Glyphosate, Chronic Use and Chronic Toxicity, a Global Pandemic and Matter of Immediate National Security
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