Q. I need information on how to manage hops from the ground up and when and how to do what. Any information you can provide will be greatly appreciated, such as when to dig rhizomes, prune, storage, ...

Planting, growing, and harvesting hops is just as easy as growing tomatoes but far more versatile. In addition to flavoring your home-brewed beer, your crop can also serve as a decorative ...

Gardeners know the joys and rewards of growing their own food. There is perhaps nothing better than preparing an entire meal with fresh ingredients grown within walking distance of your ...

He also teaches workshops on "hops growing 101" to prospective hops farmers and gardeners. Oregon State University's hops breeder, Shaun Townsend, prepares hops for drying at OSU's hop yard in ...

Beer enthusiasts are turning to their own gardens to grow one of beer’s key ingredients: hops.

Pure Mitten Hops' plants won't grow and bear flowers for making beer until the 22,000 ropes are tied to trellises in their 11-acre hop yard.

COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — There’s farmers, and there’s brewers. They rely on each other, but they don’t often overlap. A farmer grows barley and hops. The brewer turns the ...

What are hops? When it comes to beer, they are arguably the most important ingredient and serve a wide range of purposes, ...

PHILADELPHIA — In 2008, news of a global hops shortage sent brewers into a cold panic. But for a few would-be farmers, it planted the seed — or, more precisely, the rhizome — of a… ...

Sprague Farm & Brew Works has been growing hops since opening in 2006 and is one of the early adopters in the region. ... His hop yard measures about three-quarters of an acre, ...

A change in USDA regulations spurs more Mainers to grow organic hops, making the state's craft beers ever more local. The first thing you notice driving down the quarter-mile driveway on Benton ...

Growing hops here could grow the economy. ... Horticulturist Shinsuke Agehara experiments with the LED lights at the hops yard at the Gulf Coast REC.