Mimi Casteel started her journey by going to the forest. She found she could not save the forest from within, so she went to the farm. But she found she could not save the farm from within either, so she has recently taken the next step in her journey, and that was why I wanted to have this conversation with her… to ask her what that next step is, and why she’s taking it.
But more than offering just the answers to these questions, Mimi offers us an urgent call to make big changes. She offers us hope in the resilience of the natural world. And she describes the vital need that we all have of getting and giving support to each other.
We skip introductions in this interview, so if you don’t know who Mimi Casteel is, I urge you to search out her other interviews and talks. Mimi is my first repeat guest, so you can also find another great interview with her in the Organic Wine Podcast episode library.
The context of this conversation is wine, of course. But wine has led us to ask some really big questions, questions about the sanity of our current economic model, questions about the sustainability of our global food system, questions about survival.
Mimi’s perspectives are at once radical and compassionate. Revolutionary and life-affirming. You are in for a treat.
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Fearless Wine - Picking Frontenac Gris with La Garagista, La Montañela, and Lilith Wines
Adapting To The Future of Wine By Breeding Resistant Varieties in Catalonia - Mireia Pujol-Busquets
Cultivating Life: A Call For A Diversity of Viticultures
Gizem Duyar - Making Wine From Married Vines In Turkey (Vitiforestry & Natural Wine)
Westside Winos - Drinking Local At Offhand Wine Bar
Reforesting The Earth Through Vitiforestry - Etelle Higonnet
For Ever - Beautiful Biodiverse Biodynamic Dry-Farmed AmByth Estate with Gelert Hart
Deborah Parker Wong - Slow Wine USA & Wine’s Ecological Context
Dave Carr - Raging Cider & Mead in Southern California
Don’t Enter The Forest. Become It. Mike Biltonen - Part 2
Walking Through Biodynamic Apostrophe Orchard with Mike Biltonen of Know Your Roots
Brent Mayeaux - Stagiaire Wine & Wine From Here Fair
Marcelo Castro Vera - Making Wine Without Electricity or Sulfites in Mexico
Dan Durica - Hardcore Sustainable, No-Spray Permaculture Vineyard at Dancing Rabbit Ecovilliage Missouri
Xaime Niembro - Vinos Barrigones
Amy Lee - Solving Wine’s Biggest Problem
Jess Hopwood - A Magical Tour of the Okanagan
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