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Hope Well is not simply the wish of an optimistic philosophy. Hope Well is an imperative. It is the insistence that hope without action is hope without hope.

Hope Well is a noun AND a verb.

Literally, Hope Well is a beautiful place where I live and work. It is where my children run with bare feet, where lush swaths of native habitat are the architectural foundation of a rich, textural landscape. It is where the roots of grapevines stretch and mingle with the roots of a full and diverse ground cover, twining, sharing and passing on the great secrets of a place in time through miles of silvery, tubular threads of mycorrhizal fungi. It is where those whispering tapestries, knotted and woven, are cradling, sustaining, and growing a magnificent subterranean fabric of vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, fungi, bacteria. It is a place where human animals labor with sheep, llamas, alpacas and goats to do the true good work of careful stewardship and humble attendance.

Hope Well is where the fruits of the earth are valued for what they are: true gifts. True and priceless gifts for which there can be no reciprocity. Hope Well is a place beyond the language of economics. Hope Well is a place for honoring the connections between life forms. Hope Well is where we say thank you with our hands, our hearts and our minds for the true and priceless gifts.

Hope Well is the borderless, dimensionless, six-sense experience of love.

Hope (v.) Old English hopian “have the theological virtue of Hope; hope for (salvation, mercy), trust in,” also “to have trust, have confidence; assume confidently or trust” (that something is or will be so), a word of unknown origin. Some suggest a connection with hop (v.) on the notion of “leaping in expectation” [Klein]

Well (n.) Old English wielle (West Saxon), welle (Anglian) “spring of water, fountain,” Figurative sense of “source from which anything is drawn” was in Old English.

Well (adv.) Old English wel ‘abundantly, very, very much; indeed, to be sure’

Well (v.) Old English wiellan, ‘to spring, rise, gush’

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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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