A Certified Naturally Grown Farm - Saint Marys, Pennsylvania
For the Love of Farming – Before One Season Ends, the Next One Has Already Begun
Farming could be considered a variation of insanity if you truly do exactly the same thing year after year, however IMHO, a good Farmer…while toiling away in the fields year after year is the same…the tools, techniques, and tact must adapt for it to…
A Family Hop Farm’s Love of Stringing The Hopyard
For hop Farmers in the Mid Atlantic, the middle of May means it’s time to string and train the hops! That’s where we found ourselves recently @HoffAppFarm. While exhausting, stringing the hopyard is something this family hop Farm loves. We’re up in the “siege…
Hop Farm | version 2.0
“Forward, always forward, everywhere forward“ Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B.Founder & Archabbot, Saint Vincent Archabbey | Latrobe, Pennsylvania1809 – 1887 It’s that time of year – harvest is behind us, hops are put to bed for the Winter, and there’s no work left to do in…
“God Bless Us, Every One!”
Like most, it’s that time of year where we reflect on the good, the bad, the happy, and the sad of the year we’ve come through. It was a challenge for sure at the Farm – starting and completing a solar irrigation project installation…
“If I could just get started in those fields…that’d be great!”
Well up for the weekend for a couple of reasons…one was simply to see where the fields are at. As you can see, there’s still a foot of snow on our fields. Over in Montoursville, the snow is all but gone, but a different…
Gearing Back Up
“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” John Muir The 2021 season is about to begin here at the Farm. This coming Saturday will be the first trip back up after what’s been probably the BEST Winter we’ve had in decades. And by…
