Welcome! Impressive wood stack, great yard for the kids to play.... Do you own a SISU? Fine boats. I could write a book about the adventures my Dad had in his fishing off Nantucket.
Thanks for the compliments, very kind of you. I didn't even know that sisu was a boat - learn something new every day! In Finnish, Sisu means guts (andr b•lls). I love small craft salt water fishing, don't get to do it so much anymore, but like you have with your Dad, I have some great memories.
I'd be interested in hearing about growing hops commercially. I find my hop farming to be quite a lot of work for the yield.
Nice pix. Sherwood beat me to it. I was wondering if you had a Sisu boat too. I'm a fan of downeast style boats (even though my boat is not a downeast style). Anyway, boat, no boat, welcome to the forum.
That's a nice run of hops there. I agree they are very labor intensive, I currently have the same or a bit more than you have. My planned operation is commercial in the sense of I am looking to produce revenue. My local brewery has stated they will take everything that I grow. This is not going to be a 1000 hop plant operation. I am looking to generate supplemental income only. This would be combined with the honey bee operation (which the brewery is even more interested in). If all goes well it will be a small family farm generating extra income and teaching my kids the value of land and hard work. I am thinking in the hundreds for hops and in the tens for the honey bees. Or it could be a complete failure with me torching the hops due to some disease and the honey bees getting wiped out by any number of factors. That's why I plan to start small and build it up, if I fail I am out relatively short money and the kids will still get a valuable lesson about business and life in general. I have found that the path is often more interesting than the destination
I have a few friends that grow hops and we brew beer with them. My friend has a pretty serious home brew set up. Brewing with the fresh hops is awesome. Good luck expanding your hop grow.
