Hops in Transition (or what Caitlyn Jenner has to do with our hop yard)
Downy mildew is indeed taking its toll on our hop yard. We are looking at significantly reduced yields this season as we continue to do what we can to control […]
A Quick Update & Father’s Day Interlude
Spring was slow to arrive and thanks to a soggy start to June, Origin Hops is not alone in battling downy mildew again this spring. We are doing our best to […]
Downy Mildew
There’s been a plague on our fields. Not one of Biblical proportions, but one to be wary of nonetheless. The dreaded downy mildew struck. According to a fabulous New York […]
Auction
The September afternoon my father and uncles first met the farm buyer, my mother kindly distracted me with a visit to the local art museum for a traveling Georgia O’Keefe exhibit. The […]
A Tale of Christmas Past
One of my activities while home for the holidays this year is rummaging through boxes of memories and paperwork left behind over the generations at the farm house. But before […]
Home
This day, after 160 years working the land in our nook of the world, Goodmanor Farm will pass through the hands of my family. The change is bittersweet. The summer […]
Sparklers
In the Adirondack Foothills On the Burgoyne Trail… So begins the alma mater for Fort Ann Central School, where my siblings and I learned reading, writing and arithmetic, as did […]
Kitchen Table
Many of my best memories of the farm include my grandmother. She was the guiding matriarch of the family, running the dairy operation with my uncles and father by her […]
On the Radio
Though the most exciting event on April 8 was the birth of baby nephew Aidan (perhaps a future hop farmer), Dad and I spent the morning that day with Sarah […]
Boston
April 15, 2013 is a day that will be remembered from this day forward. As someone close to me put it, I will be able to tell my new niece […]
