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Great day! We officially have a well truck at the farm ready to drill our dedicated well for the hops! ! No more hauling water 1000 gallons at a time!
Starting a small hop farm!!!!
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Did our calculation for harvest moisture and looks like we're about a week out! Should be fun and this will be our first shot at a wolf harvester! ! I'll keep folks updated or catch us on facebook
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What percent moisture did you calculate to point to one week out?
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Take a sample. Dry it til it no longer looses weight. Compare to original weight. That gives you your% of moisture in the hop to start. We will harvest at approx 78% harvest moisture
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And we got water finally! ! If you were following on Facebook. It took 4 days of drilling. And at roughly 600' we hit water. Total depth of well is 700'!!!
700'?! That's going to be some pure water!
re Mont, VT extension has this pretty neat tool you should check out:
http://www.uvm.edu/extension/agriculture/engineering/?Page=hopscalc.html
re Mont, VT extension has this pretty neat tool you should check out:
http://www.uvm.edu/extension/agriculture/engineering/?Page=hopscalc.html
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This is basically what we use but. We also use a chart along with it to check after we harvest to figure out exactly how long we dry for
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So we harvested our Cascade rows yesterday and it went pretty good I think! And today we week be able to package some up and get it sent out for analysis so folks that buy our hops know what their getting! Few pictures below show from beginning of the day. Loading the full bines into the wolf and just one of the many bins we ended up with that went into the oast!
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Hey all Maryland folks and not from Maryland! We currently are approx a week away from our Chinook Hops being ready to harvest. Im throwing it out there for folks to come pick their own. The hops arent for sale. Pm for details!
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Looks great!
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Few shots of some Chinook from this past weekend. They smell amazing at this point! Harvested some this past sunday for a fresh harvest ale.
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WOW....gorgeous! Can I just live next door and poach some? LOL.
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Just wanted to give you guys a sneak peak at our expansion for 2015! We are very excited about this adventure and I will do my best to keep everyone posted on it. This will include a wolf harvester and custom oast capable of drying 10k+ lbs of hops! We are very excited to be able to supply add many Brewers and home Brewers add possible ď
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Impressive looking expansion area
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Updates for 2015? Or are you still under a blanket of snow?
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Lots of updates!!
-finishing up existing field adding roughly another acre there,
-new location waiting for poles, cable, irrigation, etc. To show up,
Too many to really get into detail right now, ill have pictures later, check out our fb page and website for more reg updates! Excitedfor what's to come, will be at 20 acres by the end of the year!
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Lots of updates!!
-finishing up existing field adding roughly another acre there,
-new location waiting for poles, cable, irrigation, etc. To show up,
Too many to really get into detail right now, ill have pictures later, check out our fb page and website for more reg updates! Excitedfor what's to come, will be at 20 acres by the end of the year!
-finishing up existing field adding roughly another acre there,
-new location waiting for poles, cable, irrigation, etc. To show up,
Too many to really get into detail right now, ill have pictures later, check out our fb page and website for more reg updates! Excitedfor what's to come, will be at 20 acres by the end of the year!
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Pole delivery is suppose to start today, if not tomorrow but we have our equipment ready for the unload! Should be able to lift high enough for the truck
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Our newest little toy is ready for stringing. At roughly 11' wide and roughly 11' to the standing platform, our New stringing tower will ease life on stringing days. The button totes have roughly 150 gal off water in them to act as a ballast. And being able to string 4 cables at a time will speed up even the slow crews!
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How are those attached to each other? Wear a helmet lol!
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You just set them on top of each other and they are good to go! J/k. The bottom is bolted together via u-bolts, then the top basket has plenty of strut making that a single unit, no problems lifting the entire thing from one end and no bending etc. Then it's all bolted down with cable as added ins. from the top basket on 4 points down to the trailer as well. You can have multi people on one side with no issues!
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