Home brewers looking to produce a few cones – and backyard gardeners seeking a fast-growing ornamental – might enlist a trellis or two. More serious, yet still small-scale, farmers should consider ...

Last week, newbie farmers Kelly and Casey Holzworth set about an ambitious undertaking. On their quarter-acre sliver of leased farm land in Greenfield, Saratoga County, they sowed 300 new hops plants.

With increased popularity of home brewing and a demand for locally grown ingredients, interest in backyard hop production is growing. Primarily used as bittering and aroma agents in beer, hop plants ...

Planting is underway near Solon in eastern Iowa on a the state’s largest farm for the key ingredient in beer. Five friends and relatives with a background in traditional crops have invested nearly a ...

Four partners in the Wyoming County farm of Avery Mountain Bines and Twine hope to bring new life to an old crop. This year, area residents Joe Mitchell, Paul Robinson, Tony Caputo and Mike Barziloski ...

Have you ever wondered what those unusual looking vines are growing on some Canyon County farms? They’re probably hops, which supply a growing industry of microbreweries here in Idaho. Garden master ...

Hops have been grown in the Yakima Valley since the 1880s. With such a long history, you’d think it would be a crop that’s always been on the minds of people living here, but not so. Hops used to be ...

The herbaceous, perennial hop plant is best known as a component of beer that adds a bitter flavor, but it can also be used in nonalcoholic beverages and herbal medicine, and it can be grown here in ...

The startlingly intense, vibrant green aroma of fresh hops is enough to make any beer lover’s knees buckle. The culprit is lupulin, a yellow pollen lookalike produced in the cone-shaped hop flower.