Sunday, December 30, 2012

Laying Out the Hopyard

We used a long tape, a long string and a lot of orange and white flags to layout the position of our poles, end anchors and fencing.


At 15 rows by 300+ feet each, this is quite an area to layout.

Next we'll moving the poles and getting them prepped for underground contact.

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Best Product of the Month 12-12

Oh yes, it is a life saver.


It's not the grill, it is the aluminum foil. In this case it allowed me to turn a grill into a smoker on Christmas day. I smoked a 13 pound turkey on this grill at 300 degrees. Without the foil I couldn't have kept the tempature above 270 with all the burners on high. It didn't help that the outside temp was in the twenty's. With the foil I used the far right burner on low.

Thanks Aluminum Foil!

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Tamarack Poles

A semi truckload of tamarack poles for the hop trellis. Our friend Randy up at Wildland Hops in Wisconsin sent a few poles down to get us started.. oh my.

Yeah, it was a bigger truck than I thought it would be.


Now those are going to leave a mark.

Over the Winter we'll be setting those poles in a grid out in the field. The first hopyard will take up just over an acre.

Stay tuned or sign up for automatic update to see this trellis go up!