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@ajm163 thanks for the feedback! We've been busy putting in the first poles of the season. We're only doing 5 straight runs for this first springs about 26 poles, single cable single coir for the first year hops. The remaining 80+ poles with proper angle/wire structure should go in this fall...

Well I'll keep updating here as things happen. Year 1 is relatively small so we can verify a few things both logistically and from a crop management perspective. We've ordered 500 rhizomes, so we should be planting close to 250 hills.

Starting off with some Cascade, Galena, Centennial year 1. Fingers crossed on some material agreements we're in talks about for the following years.

The seed propagation is just for experimentation on the side actually. We have 500 rhizomes ordered for spring planting 😃

A few updates as we sit in the depths of winter here and hitting -30C. Our first 24 poles have arrived at the field. Next up over the winter is going to be to debark the lower 5-6ft and tar them over. We've got some seed propagation happening as well, they're sitting dormant in our fridge but...

That’s the plan! We just want to get a couple acres started and more mature before we start building the house. It’s only 30min from our current home so it’s not too bad.

I wanted to share with everyone my plans for our hop field. We have a 19ac property and I think in the end we will be able to squeeze about 12ac with actual hops. Doing things pretty small the first year so that we can better understand what kind of things to expect with regards to water, soil...

Thanks for that. Ya looks like it's the norm for larger scale operations. I've ordered double the Rhizomes for the coming spring.

Curious if anyone who's doing larger scale planting has gone to the expense of double planting rhizomes? Basically putting 2 in one spot in case one doesn't make it. I've had rhizomes not make it in my back garden, but never thought to double plant. When planting hundreds/thousands, this seems...

Hi! I've just finalized the purchase of 20ac of land which will become home base for our hop growing operations. We're going to scale in slowly (capital and jobs barriers), but are aiming to have a couple hundred plants planted this coming spring. I'm new to the hop growing world but excited...