Laugh-out-loud funny and Chekhov are not words I have often had occasion to use in the same sentence. I've always associated the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov more with Russian misery ...

It boosts him up so he can attach twine trellises between 18-foot tall poles lined in rows. The vining hops plants will climb up the trellis, and at harvest time, usually around Labor Day, the ...

Featuring some of the biggest names on the Inner West Ale Trail, Hop Harvest Festival returns for its second year from Friday, April 11–Thursday, April 17. To celebrate the occasion, 11 breweries have ...

In 1891, an article in the New York Times reported a record setting “enormous” hop harvest in Kent, Washington (Anonymous, 1891a). Kent, aptly named after the renowned English hop-growing region, ...

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“I probably get a call three to four times a year from someone who wants to start growing hops,” he says. The growing season begins in March. Harvest starts in mid-August. The goals is to get the ...

"I think we're the only one doing anything like this in Berks County," said Jeff Meyers, vice president of Fawn Hill Hop Yard. The hops that reach for the rare air at the farm are responsible for ...

Andrew Walawender “scouts” the hops at his hopyard to see if they are ready to harvest. Walawender owns and operates 45th Parallel Hops in Hawks, the only hop farm currently operating in ...