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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

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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___

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Soon to be on the lapels of these six thoughtful leaders.

In just 12 days, three masterclasses. Six powerful voices. One rare convergence. All work with or within wine. All work beyond it — providing uniquely valuable perspective.

Let's talk holistic management — and what it means to manage the whole, not the parts. (Kelly Mulville + Jesse Smith, June 8)

Let's talk where improved biology, diversity, and economics converge in the soil and the plants. (John Kempf + Keith Berns, June 9)

Let's talk collective rehydration and the localized cooling that follows when neighbors restore watersheds together. (Mimi Casteel + Brock Dolman, June 10)

Six leaders. One room. A rare opportunity.

June 8–10 | Cambria Winery & Vineyard | Santa Maria Valley
Get your tickets: agmindset.com

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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

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The MINDSET lineup is here — and this is what regenerative leadership looks like.

This is the first regenerative symposium for the wine industry. Three days bringing world-class regenerative expertise directly to Central Coast growers, winemakers, and trade.

Nature-based growers, agronomists, scientists. Winemakers, innovators, authors. Marketers, media, masters of wine. A leadership community connecting what happens in the soil to what ends up in the glass, and on the shelf.

🎟️ Register by Friday to secure Early Bird rate ($50 savings): http://agmindset.com
📍 June 8–10 | Cambria Winery & Vineyard | 5475 Chardonnay Lane, Santa Maria, CA

To our Speakers and Sponsors — thank you for helping seed this regional movement. We're proud to have you with us. 🌾

Please share with your networks. Let's fill this room.

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Happy tree planting! Continuing to give our vineyards a different look! Connecting the dots and increasing biodiversity!
#vineyards #austria #teamwork #organicwine

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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

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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

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Day 2’s morning speakers were informative, relatable, and entertaining! Thank you to those pictured above for the fantastic discussions and for sharing your experiences with us.

#crars #regenerativeagriculture #soilhealth #chicostate #regenerativefarming

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🍑 🍷 🐑 What happens when livestock and perennial crops share the same landscape?

Across the West, innovative farmers and land stewards are integrating livestock into orchards and vineyards to improve soil health, reduce inputs, and build resilient agricultural systems. From chickens scratching under peach trees to sheep grazing vineyards and cattle cycling nutrients through pecan orchards, these integrated systems are transforming how perennial crops are managed.

Join us for Peaches, Pecans, and Pinot: Grazing in Orchards and Vineyards, a webinar with a live panel discussion with producers and land managers who are actively grazing livestock in orchards and vineyards: Kelly Mulville of Paicines Ranch, Jared Lloyd of Naked Grazing, Josh Bowman of RioGro, and Matt with Chicken Grit Farms.

Register (link in bio!): https://quiviracoalition.org/events/grazing-in-orchards-and-vineyards/

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