Our Goal for this Blog

Over the years we have received and continue to receive numerous phone calls and emails asking many different farm related questions. Our thought is that we would try out a blog to keep people up to date on what we are doing here on Puterbaugh Farms and at Hops Direct.

We will just jump right into where we are at in the growing season with a very brief look at what it took to get the hops to the stage they are in now. If interest is actually shown and people are looking for more information we will continue through the winter and pick up the beginning next spring, which will allow everyone to get a feel for what a full crop year looks like from a hop grower's perspective and all of the many challenges involved. We hope you enjoy.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Harvest has finally ended!!!

So maintaining a blog during harvest did not really happen... We finished up harvesting all of the hops on our farm about noon yesterday, October 2nd after starting harvest on August 20th. That is a whole bunch of days straight operating for 24 hours. Both picking machines were beginning to sounds little bit tired with stretched belts and chains that were beginning to break on a more regular basis.

Today marks the day that we began running our pellet mill. The Cascade's will be run through the mill first followed in an order yet to be determined by all the other varieties we carry. Since from our earlier surveys it seems like mostly homebrewers found interest in the blog the main question to answer here is when will pellets be available from the 2008 crop. The first varieties to run through the mill should be rolling out sometime next week. Between here and our forum we will try to keep everyone up to date.

9 comments:

Andrew said...

Glad to hear the harvest is over! I can't wait to get some! Does this mean the current list available is all that will be available?

Anonymous said...

woo hoo. I'll be glad to see all the hops come up so I can place my order!

Anonymous said...

Can't wait to place an order. Reading the blog entries has gotten me to want to order hops from this site. Good job keeping us posted.

tracysrocket said...

Hope you were still taking pics during all the harvest. So much to see in a short time period. Interested in how the pellet mill works. Will you be using the new one purchased recently?

Dwayne

poolpool said...

great hops!fast ship,fresh,twice the price as 07....

Anonymous said...

Are you going to continue the blog or are you on hold until the Spring? I have really enjoyed keeping up with it.

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