Typically, hops aren't harvested until around three to five years to allow the plants to mature. "The fact that we are pulling the plants now is kind of unheard of," said Thompson-Witrick in an ...

Winklosky and his brother-in-law, Sam Stoner, are preparing to overwinter nearly 1,500 perennial hop plants they planted on Memorial Day weekend on a 2-acre section of Stoner’s Unity farm ...

Their aim is to produce hop plants that will grow to be seven meters tall and still be strong enough to withstand a multitude of diseases and disasters thrown at them — like rising temperatures ...