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Author Archives: Erica Goodman

Hops in Transition (or what Caitlyn Jenner has to do with our hop yard)

July 19, 2015by Erica Goodman Leave a comment

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 […]

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A Quick Update & Father’s Day Interlude

June 21, 2015by Erica Goodman Leave a comment

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 […]

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Downy Mildew

August 6, 2014by Erica Goodman 1 Comment

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 […]

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Auction

May 21, 2014by Erica Goodman 2 Comments

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 […]

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A Tale of Christmas Past

December 24, 2013by Erica Goodman Leave a comment

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 […]

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Home

December 11, 2013by Erica Goodman Leave a comment

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 […]

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Sparklers

July 4, 2013by Erica Goodman Leave a comment

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 […]

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Kitchen Table

June 30, 2013by Erica Goodman Leave a comment

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 […]

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On the Radio

April 29, 2013by Erica Goodman Leave a comment

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 […]

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Boston

April 17, 2013by Erica Goodman Leave a comment

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 […]

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  • Hops in Transition (or what Caitlyn Jenner has to do with our hop yard)
  • A Quick Update & Father’s Day Interlude
  • Downy Mildew
  • Auction
  • A Tale of Christmas Past

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