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Hop Rhizomes Orders for 2015
We have closed rhizome orders for the 2015 season. Are you starting a hop farm or looking to expand? The Hop Yard is a Registered Maine Nursery offering wholesale, bulk pricing on hop rhizomes. It’s...
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Hop Rhizome Sale Ends Soon
Even though we are still covered in snow across the north east, it’s time to think about getting hop rhizomes ordered. The Hop Yard will stop taking orders for hop rhizomes in early March, which leaves...
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Bulk Ordering Twine and Hop Clips
Interested in bulk ordering your coir twine and hop clips? The Hop Yard has an order going out on March 15th and farms willing to pick up from our Gorham, ME location are welcomed to get involved. For...
View ArticleTwine, Rhizomes, Spring is here
Spring time is when the delivery trucks come to the farm. We still have 10 inches of snow in our southern yard, and no bottom in sight up north, but spring equipment has started rolling in. Bales of...
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Wholesale Hop Shoots
Hop Shoots A delicious early spring vegetable. Estimated Harvest + Delivery April 19th – May 10th Orders + Information Geoff@TheHopYard.com Hop shoots are sold in one pound bundles that contain...
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Rhizome Sales Closed
We’ve closed out rhizome sales for the Spring 2015 season. We’re excited to be providing root stock to several new farms around the country, and appreciate the business from everyone that placed an...
View ArticleThe Chaos of Spring
March thru May has been another round of controlled chaos. Raised 40,000′ of wire and finished a new 6.5 acre trellis Annual trellis maintenance, twined, trained, fertilized the northern yard Annual...
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Downy mildew is on the attack
Southern Maine’s summer started off in June with long stretches of cool soaking wet weather (see here). We then progressed into July, which was filled with long stretches of hot wet weather (see here)....
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Sheep on a hop yard
This year as part of a SARE grant we’ve organized an trial experiment to bring six sheep from North Star Sheep Farm onto the hop yard to test their ability to manage weeds and defoliate the bottoms of...
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We got a Wolf
This year we out grew our HH1000 that was manufactured by Steenland in NY. We moved into a 1973 (or pretty close to this year) German harvester called a Wolf. This new unit will shorten our harvest...
View Article2015 Harvest Through Instagram
Here are a few shots of our hops heading into the world. You can follow us here! A few hundred pounds of these FRESH Centennial Hops should make for a pretty epic Wet Hop IPA coming soon from...
View ArticleFresh Hop Beers – 2015
We are thrilled to have worked with another killer line up of brewers this year. Below is a list of the fresh hop beers we had a chance to play a part in. Sebago Brewing Company – Local Harvest...
View ArticleQuality improvements during harvest
With a brand focused on quality, we are constantly looking for ways to improve the product we are delivering. With our 2015 harvest, our hops were used both as fresh whole leafs and dried pellets. Our...
View ArticleSheep on our farm
This summer we hosted six sheep on our farm for about ten days. The results were interesting, and the experience was worth while. There are some logistically hurdles before we are ready to scale this...
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First Signs of Downy
It was a warm snowless winter in Southern Maine, and it’s unclear how that will affect the 2016 harvest. Because the warmth has continued into the spring, we are seeing the plants coming up about two...
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Training Day
Crowning, pruning, twining, are all activities that lead up to training. Training is the activity that sets the hop bines onto the coconut fiber twine tied to the top of the trellis. The day you train...
View ArticleHoptoberfest 2014
When: Saturday October 18th, 12-4pm Where: In’finiti Fermentation & Distillation, 250 Commercial St. Portland Buy Tickets! The Hop Yard and In’finiti Fermentation & Distillation invite you to...
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Hop Rhizomes Orders for 2015
New online stop at www.buyhoprhizomes.com Are you starting a hop farm or looking to expand? The Hop Yard is a Registered Maine Nursery offering wholesale, bulk pricing on hop rhizomes. When you are...
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Hop Rhizome Sale Ends Soon
Even though we are still covered in snow across the north east, it’s time to think about getting hop rhizomes ordered. The Hop Yard will stop taking orders for hop rhizomes in early March, which leaves...
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Bulk Ordering Twine and Hop Clips
Interested in bulk ordering your coir twine and hop clips? The Hop Yard has an order going out on March 15th and farms willing to pick up from our Gorham, ME location are welcomed to get involved. For...
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