<![CDATA[The Regenaissance: The Regenaissance Weekly]]>https://theregenaissance.news/s/the-regenaissance-weeklyhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XQp6!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd884b967-2c36-4a9a-889c-c11133e0a9b4_1080x1080.pngThe Regenaissance: The Regenaissance Weeklyhttps://theregenaissance.news/s/the-regenaissance-weeklySubstackWed, 29 Apr 2026 12:55:51 GMT<![CDATA[The Regenaissance Weekly: Walking the Land With the Maudes]]>https://theregenaissance.news/p/walking-the-land-with-the-maudeshttps://theregenaissance.news/p/walking-the-land-with-the-maudesSun, 01 Feb 2026 15:15:45 GMTLast week centered on the Maude family and a story we’ve been carrying with us for months. Spending time with Charles and Heather, both in conversation and on their land, reminded us how much context gets lost when farming is reduced to headlines or policies. We were excited to finally share this work, not because it offers clean answers, but because it shows what stewardship, family, and persistence look like up close.

Last Week on YouTube

Family Beat Criminal Indictment for Farming Generational Land
Walking the Maude ranch made clear how much everyday farming reality disappears once land is reduced to lines, permits, and abstractions. Seeing the livestock systems, infrastructure, and the disputed river bottom in person reframed the story as one about continuity and stewardship, not conflict, and raised questions about how easily long-standing practices can be misread when context is removed.

How a Ranching Family Faced and Beat a Federal Criminal Indictment
Listening to the Maudes walk through their story revealed how quickly a routine land question can escalate when process replaces judgment. What stood out most was not just how the case unfolded, but how much of the burden fell on family, community, and long-term thinking while the legal system moved slowly and impersonally.

How a Disputed Fence Line Turned Into a Criminal Indictment on a Farming Couple. In this clip from our podcast with the Charles and Heather Maude, what stood out was how quickly a long-standing, working landscape became a legal abstraction. Standing on their land made it clear how much context disappears when land is reduced to lines on a map, and how high the stakes become when that context is ignored.

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]]><![CDATA[Paying Attention to the Quiet Work]]>https://theregenaissance.news/p/paying-attention-to-the-quiet-workhttps://theregenaissance.news/p/paying-attention-to-the-quiet-workTue, 27 Jan 2026 01:00:30 GMTLast week was a reminder that most farms appear calm and serene, but are far more complex once you look behind the scenes. The work shows up in daily tasks like checking maple syrup vacuum pressure, watching grass height on pasture, and spending time with cattle. Over time, you start to notice the small tells that shape the most important decision of the day or even the week. It becomes a systems way of thinking, responding to real-time conditions while trying to leave the land better than you found it.

Here’s what we were paying attention to last week, in case you missed it.

Last Week on YouTube

Bears, Broken Lines, and Vacuum Leaks: Inside a Real-World Maple Syrup Farm
What we noticed was how maple syrup production has shifted away from the tap itself and toward managing pressure, flow, and miles of tubing spread across uneven forest terrain. Jacob Powsner walked us through how a single air leak can quietly reduce yield from trees more than a mile away, reframing sugaring as ongoing systems maintenance rather than seasonal harvest.

Last Week on Substack

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A quiet moment in Western Colorado as barrels are prepared and wine is finished at Peony Lane. Ben Justman walking through the final decisions before wine goes into storage. It was a reminder that “natural” winemaking still involves constant judgment calls and responsibility

→ See the final steps in his wine making process

Centralization shapes nearly every part of our food system, from who controls processing to who carries the risk. It’s made life harder for farmers and ranchers while leaving consumers further removed from how food is actually produced.

→ This statistics is INSANE

The 1980s farm crisis reshaped rural America in ways that still linger. As land values collapsed and foreclosures spread, entire communities felt futures quietly disappear. Jr Burdick shared what it was like to witness this as a kid, watching classmates who planned to work the land full time suddenly pulled in different directions.

→ JR recalls how his community was changed

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