December has come and gone. As we ring in the new year we excitedly plan what's to come. Our apples, peaches, blackberries, asparagus, hops, and grapes are all going into their second year of production this year. New additions will be joining our plants this year as well. We will be planting cut flowers where we previously had our sunflowers and we will be adding more vegetables and herbs to our hightunnel. Some more returning crops that will have to be replanted are our corn and our pumpkins. The buckwheat may be making a reappearance this year but may also be getting replaced with oats. As we come to the end of one successful year, we hope that the coming year will be filled with lots of life and success for our urban farm.
Today at the AAUFRC we had our first harvest of hops! Pherm Brewery asked for 1lb of fresh hops for their beer, a number which we met seven fold. We gave them 5.5lbs of the Cascade variety which is the leading industry standard variety, and we gave them 2lbs of the Comet variety. Our hops really amazed us with how much they produced in their first year, typically you would not see numbers like this until year two or three! While we were out with the hops we also fixed the post that had broken in our storm last Tuesday. We used wood glue and screws in some extra 2x4s to hold it all together.
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