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Stringing the Hop Yard

I had wonderful help hanging hop coir. Elsa said it was the perfect Saturday for a “farm girl.” About half of our 4 acres are strung!

A little dirt work!

Took the track loader down to the hop field and cleaned a few things up. Getting ready to build a better water tower. Fixed the pond dam up a little bit and did some general clean-up.

Getting cables up on new rows.

Two more rows of cables are up. The rows are near a terrace, made using the lift a challenge. The new Galena hop plants in these rows are doing well.

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

The rest of the field is mowed and the holes drilled to expand the hop trellis. Just need a few more poles and will be ready to plant first thing next spring. Fergus (lower left) always comes along to supervise

First year chinook hops

This first year Chinook hop plant has done exceptionally well since starting from a rhizome just a few months ago. It’s vined over 8 feet tall and has some big beautiful hop cones. I think it’s a combination of the

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

Western Bluebird

Western Bluebird sat on a post and watched for a while. Made me think there needs to be a bluebird house on one of the hop poles.

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