A Certified Naturally Grown Farm - Saint Marys, Pennsylvania
All Part of A Bigger Picture
On Tuesday afternoon, January 19, myself and other members of the board of the Headwaters Charitable Trust (HWCT) took a field trip to the Tuscarora Organic Growers Cooperative (TOG) located in the beautiful rolling south central mountains of Pennsylvania. Founded in 1988. In TOG’s own…
New Hop Yard Is In!
Well…it took us three days to do it, mostly due to very wet fields on day 2…but all the poles are in and are they beauteous! Even for someone who’s used to walking amid these 20′ giants, to see 45 of them jump out…
STOP…It’s Barley Time!
If like me, you grew up in the 80’s, this blog entry title’s play on a classic tune from that era felt appropriate. If not, go ahead and make “that face” and continue reading 😉 We were only able to get to this point because…
Harvest Time Has Arrived!
The day(s) have finally arrived…time to harvest these bad boys. The harvest this year took place over three days; August 30-31 and September 2. This happened for a couple of reasons. First the availability of our volunteer farmhand workforce. As we’re still operating on…
Harvest Time Is Just Around The Corner
Well you’ll see by the pictures and video below, that the hops are tall and strong and full of hops cones! I’ll be doing a dry matter test soon to determine just about how “done” they are. We’ll then need an “all hands on…
As With All Things In Life, “Live & Learn!”
Being only our second year as hops Farmers, we learn things…the hard way..quite often. Case in point, our addition of the new irrigation cable in the hopyard. Actually it wasn’t this concept of using an additional raised cable to support our irrigation line that…
Happy, Not-So-Little, Hops!
We continue to spray Actinovate each week to prevent downy mildew from rearing its ugly fungicidal head in our hopyard and it’s working well. Just making totally sure this sprayer never gets used for anything but organically-approved materials. If I can’t backpack with one…
