Blog posts

May 19, 2024
2020 Growing Season in review

The 2020 growing season was full of firsts. Many of which were chronicled here on the blog and on social media. As the season came to a close I didn’t...

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One Year Anniversary

We have made it to our first anniversary of moving to our Hop Farm.  Here is a video overview of our journey thus far.

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Irrigation

The next step in our construction was irrigation. And it could not be completed fast enough. For several weeks, when it was just the four rows of Chinooks (264 plants), we...

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Our Plants

One of the most interesting aspects of researching for this adventure was reading about all of the varieties of hops available.  We took into account our location, our weather, our...

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Our Hopyard by the numbers

On June 12th Foothills County granted approval of our application to begin an Intensive Vegetation Operation on our property. The Hopyard was a go! Thank goodness it was - we...

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We bought a farm

originally dated June 19, 2020 We bought a home with 4 acres of land, a barn, a chicken coop, 2 horse paddocks and a 90x20’ garden. We moved our family...

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How it all began…

 It is that day in January 2019 that we first declared to other people that we are Stormy Acres Hops. A trio boldly setting out on a brand new adventure.

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