Kansas

Darbro Farms Grower Number

Darbro Farms officially has a hop grower number. Appreciate the help from: http://www.usahops.org

Ready to Climb

We have been working hard in the hop field. Lime and fertilizer down. Nearly 1/2 of the hop coir is up. Could use a nice rain. It’s gone from muddy to a little too dry. Typical Kansas.

Holly and I went down to water the new Columbia and Multihead hop plants. Elsa spent her time on the hop pond tire swing. Seems we also have no shortage of crawdads in the hop field pond. Kinda funny since

New Additions

A new row of Columbia Hops have been planted. Plants arrived from Great Lakes Hops yesterday and were planted within a couple hours. The road crew came back and finish up the road entrance. It’s time to get the lime

A little straw for weeds

It’s been a dry spring in S.E. Kansas. We got our first good rain in quite a few days. We had been hauling water to keep the hops from getting too dry. Hopefully they will take off now. Trying some

Sunset

Took Holly for an evening drive to check out the hop yard expansion. The Kansas sunset was gorgeous. Picture doesn’t do it justice. Her main concern now is how we’re going to pick all these. Going to need to sell

Hop trellis poles going up

Five more poles to go to fill all the holes I have drilled. I think I will try and get one more load of poles and add another full row to the trellis before I start putting up cable. That

First year Chinook hops climbing and forming burrs

Hops field markers

After numerous near misses with the hop trellis guy wires I decided it was time to get some markers on them. The orange conduit shows up nicely! Hoping to brew a batch of IPA this week. I will try and

Starting to climb

Chinook Hops starting to climb. It’s gone back to being a dry week in Kansas. Have been irrigating every other day.