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Paicines Ranch Vineyard - designed to promote ecosystem health and flourishing biodiversity while producing exceptional quality wine and food. 🍇🐑

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When the Grenache Gris and the sunrise match 🍇🌅

Our vineyard crew is deep in harvest right now with back-to-back pre-dawn picks and little sleep in between. But moments like these keep the energy alive.

Send our team some love for all their hard work, and for an abundant, delicious harvest.

📸 Alex Kaindl

#regenerativewinegrowing taken in Paicines Ranch by @regenerativewinegrowing

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Recently, @nobleresearchinstitute brought their film crew to the ranch and spent time with Kelly, capturing “a day in the life” for a short film on regenerative winegrowing.

They happened to catch peak summer season when every corner of the ranch is bustling with life and movement, and our teams are BUSY.

For our vineyard crew, with harvest about to kick off, here is some of the day-to-day work they are immersed in:

🍇 Monitoring the fruit. In places where we don’t yet have bird netting up, we’re walking the rows and dropping damaged fruit, as well as the very green clusters that won’t ripen in time, so the vine concentrates its energy into the fruit that will.

📊 Sampling fruit, constantly. We check brix levels (the sugar content in the grapes) every week, sometimes several times a week. That number is one of the key ways we know when it’s time to pick.

🌱 Reading plant vigor. We’re paying close attention to the health and vigor of each vine right now, and marking the ones that tell us something—this will later on shape how we prune this winter and what we do next season. The vineyard is always teaching us what it needs.

🔧Training the young vines. Trellis wires are being strung and the next generation of plants are getting guided up the trellis stakes, so they are set up strong for the years ahead.

We can’t wait to see what harvest brings us this year! Thank you to Katie, Rob & Spencer at Noble Research Institute for capturing the magic of this season.

📸🎥 @nobleresearchinstitute @katie_bell___

#regenerativewinegrowing taken in Paicines Ranch by @regenerativewinegrowing

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Why should you join us at MINDSET?

→ Connect with 24 leading minds in regenerative agriculture and wine.

→ Discover products, tools, and services supporting the transition — from our partners.

→ Earn 8 hours of DPR Continuing Education credit.

→ Toast with your growing community at our closing Regenerative Wine Tasting.

This is the first symposium built to turn the regenerative transition in wine from inspiration into action — and to do it together.

June 8–10 · Cambria Winery & Vineyard, Santa Maria Valley

Register at agmindset.com — link in bio

@inlanddesertnursery @sagarobotics @greencoverseed @white_buffalo_land_trust @sectormentor @advancingecoag @pulsatingirrigationproducts @livingrootscotton @paicinesranch @groundstarvineyard @oneillwines @cambriawines

#MINDSETSymposium #RegenerativeViticulture #CentralCoastWine #SoilHealth #RegenerativeAgriculture taken in Cambria Estate Winery by @regenerativewinegrowing

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When Kelly Mulville designed our vineyard, he used a high trellis system…high enough for sheep to graze underneath year-round, high enough to create something closer to a vine forest than a conventional vineyard. One thing he’d been curious about: whether that clearance might eventually let harriers hunt the vineyard in both directions, flying between the trellised rows and coursing low underneath the canopy.

This spring, he got his answer. They’re flying it both ways.

Northern harriers hunt unlike any other hawk, just a few feet off the ground. A pair has nested just below the vineyard, and we see them daily, working the rows. That’s unusual. Harriers nest on the ground and are known to abandon sites when humans get too close. Something about this landscape feels safe enough for them to stay.

They’re not alone. White-tailed kites are now nesting next to the vineyard and Barn Owls occupy 16 owl boxes on the perimeter. Red-tailed hawks are here in abundance,

Nobody designed a raptor habitat. But a vineyard designed to allow nature to flourish — soil kept covered, 100+ plant species reseeding themselves, sheep grazing throughout the year, no tillage,— created the conditions for one. More plants, more insects, more ground cover, and eventually the raptors that follow.

First it was 3,000 endangered tri-colored blackbirds. Now at least 5 raptor species are regularly hunting and nesting in and around the vineyard.

What else shows up when you design for life instead of against it?

#regenerativeviticulture #biodiversity #paicinesranch #raptors #regenerativeagriculture taken in Paicines Ranch by @regenerativewinegrowing

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Sheep in vineyards have become a symbol of regenerative viticulture. But a flock in the vineyard should be a visible expression of a deeper, integrated systems design.

What happens when we stop managing practices and start managing processes? When we design for succession instead of control, and let living systems do what they evolved to do?

June 9 MINDSET Masterclass: Allowing Nature to Flourish — Lessons from Managing Holistically Led by Kelly Mulville (Paicines Ranch) and Jesse Smith (White Buffalo Land Trust)

Kelly built Paicines Ranch's polyculture vineyard from the ground up for year-round grazing — no tillage, no herbicides, soil carbon up 66%, biodiversity through the roof. Jesse leads land stewardship at White Buffalo Land Trust's 1,000-acre Jalama Canyon Ranch, where vineyards, orchards, livestock, and watershed restoration are managed as one holistic system.

In this interactive masterclass, they'll guide participants through the principles and decision-making that let natural systems self-organize — and the practical grazing planning that makes it work in a vineyard context. Expect dialogue across three lenses:

→ Ecology: soil health, biodiversity, ecosystem function
→ Community: relationships between land, people, and place
→ Economics: viable regenerative systems that reduce inputs and build long-term value

Holistic grazing is a powerful tool. This masterclass is about the proactive and adaptive mindset that maximizes the value of this practice within a larger process-based design.

June 8–10 | Cambria Winery & Vineyard | Santa Barbara County | Tickets & Info: www.agmindset.com taken in Cambria Estate Winery by @regenerativewinegrowing

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“In a rapidly changing climate, vineyards that are more resilient and genuinely sustainable are in growing demand. Regenerative agriculture offers a possible answer: Through intelligent, evidence-based measures, it aims to create vineyards that are largely self-sustaining. Is this the viticulture of the future?”

We are honored to be featured in this beautiful piece, published by German magazine Falstaff, on the growing movement toward regenerative winegrowing, featuring our own Kelly Mulville and the work happening here at the Paicines Ranch Vineyard.

Thank you @falstaff.magazin & @herzben

➡️ Read article at link in bio.

#RegenerativeViticulture #LivingVineyards #PaicinesRanch #RegenerativeAgriculture taken in Paicines Ranch by @regenerativewinegrowing

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What you’re seeing here is not just a vineyard. It’s a living system.

At Paicines Ranch, vineyard manager Kelly Mulville reimagined what a vineyard could be by designing it as an ecosystem rather than a monoculture.

Tall vines allow light and airflow. A living understory supports biodiversity. Sheep are able to rotationally graze all year long, doing real work in the system. Soil health improves over time.

The result is a vineyard that requires fewer external inputs, produces high-quality grapes and animal protein, builds soil, supports ecological diversity, sequesters carbon, and remains economically viable.

This approach is not theoretical. It has been observed, tested, and refined over decades, and its outcomes are visible on the land.

This is one of the systems we study in the field during Climate Farm School’s Paicines Ranch course, now open for enrollment. It’s a rare opportunity to see regenerative systems in practice, to ask questions alongside the people stewarding them, and to feel the ecological value these designs create.

Join us in the fields 🐑🍷
March 22–28, 2026
Learn more and apply via the link in bio. taken in Paicines Ranch by @regenerativewinegrowing

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A MILLION thanks to all these amazing people who make this work so meaningful: #livingvineyard #livingthedream
@regenerativewinegrowing @carussinwine @theportoprotocol @marco.firino @dacapo_caedbaloswines @isoldifannoschifo
@corbsmore @victoria_o_piemonte @baart_agliano

#aglianoterme #piedmont #piemonte #nebbiolo #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativeagriculturemovement #regenerativeagriculture #organicfarming #organic #naturalwines #biodiversity #winelover #terroir #nerellomascalese #barbera#organicwinery #organicviticulture #barolo#barbaresco #vineyardlife #wineporn#winecollector #italianwine#climateaction #vineyarddog #monferrato#sustainabilty #climatesolutions taken in Agliano Terme by @regenerativewinegrowing

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The Living Vineyards Europe Tour is coming. In a joint endeavor between the Porto Protocol, Paicines Ranch, and the No Regrets Initiative, we are absolutely thrilled to host Kelly Mulville in Europe and, together with @cristina_crava , and a series of other members and partners, we'll conduct a series of hands-on, in-the-field workshops across Europe dedicated to ecosystem restoration.

The tour includes multiple stops and partners along the way. It will kick off in Italy at @vini_ragerra , then continue through Spain, Portugal, and the UK, before heading to Germany, and finally conclude in Austria at @weingutfredloimer . Each workshop will include local producers, guest experts, and field demonstrations — making every encounter unique and very practical.

Most workshops are open to the local community and whoever wants to join.

Drop us an email for more info (info@portoprotocol.com), stay tuned for more and follow the tour #livingvineyardstour

#regenerativeviticulture
#agroecology #winetime #winelovers #agroforestry #ecosystemservices #vino #vinho #SustainableWinemaking by @regenerativewinegrowing

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