When I told my dad what I was going to name the new ranch, his only comment was, “People are going to mispronounce it, because I did!”.
He read the word ‘regen’ with a hard G rather than a soft G.
For those that don’t remember your phonetics:
Soft G examples: gym, giant,
Hard G examples: gap, gun
Regen is read with a soft G, and is short for regenerate.
Why did I choose Regen?
I went through a divorce early 2020 and had to restart many things in my life., including purchasing new land to ranch on.
I regenerated my life path!
Additionally, I strongly believe in using regenerative agricultural practices to heal the soil and thus the water, carbon/mineral, energy (think solar) and community dynamic (think microbes and critters) cycles.
Regenerative agricultural practices focus on working with nature, rather than against nature, and scientific data shows that these will do much to heal our current environmental and social issues.
So Regen is short for Regeneration!
I am regenerating my life and my land, the lives of our customers through our products!
I had to add the word ‘The’ because when I went looking for the website address, regenranch.com was already taken!
According to the dictionary, the word ‘the’ is “used to point forward to a following, qualifying, or defining clause or phrase”.
We are The Regen Ranch because we are pointing forward to a defining ranch!
So The Regen Ranch became the name because there’s only one Christine and the ranch is uniquely different because of who I am and what I do!
And now you know why I named the ranch as I did!
