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Hawksbill Cabin: Getting Close @hawksbillhops
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Thursday, July 23, 2015. Here's a great big Cascade cone! Since I knew that harvest is nearly upon us, I decided that I would stay back in Alexandria last weekend. I took care of a few errands I have been trying to get to - and I brewed two batches of beer using some honey a work colleague gave me. In the meantime, I missed my check-in at the hop yard, but fortunately David indulged me with a few snaps. Here's a monster Chinook bine. Labels: Hawksbill Hop Yards. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Profil...
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Hawksbill Cabin: The Tomato King
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Friday, August 12, 2011. David with slicers and heirlooms. If you can't grow tomatoes in August, well, you should just give up on them." - overheard at the Shendandoah Valley Produce Auction in Dayton. He added a clarification on Facebook about the quantities that are coming out of the farm just now:. Several lots of Public House tomatoes at auction. Since last Thursday, four of us have picked tomatoes five different times, and as of today, we have harvested 3,200 pounds of tomatoes! It is already well k...
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Hawksbill Cabin: May 2015
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Stringing Part 3 - Now We're Done @hawksbillhops. Farm dog Tess hunkered down in the shade. At least, now we're done stringing! Since it was already too hot to do any farm chores, we settled in to getting a count of what plants are up, and then Mary took to training bines. On that first one, there was pretty good news all around - while some of the plants are still just breaking through, we've had 95% success on the rhizomes since planting them on May 2! Links to this post. All o...
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Hawksbill Cabin: Hops Stringing - Part 2
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Monday, May 18, 2015. Hops Stringing - Part 2. David's photo from the tractor - the sunroof allows him to. Keep an eye on all the stringing action.and creep backwards. That's what they say, and it's hitting home as we work our way through the hop yards stringing so the bines will have a way to climb the trellis. Preparation for the second row - 60 or so ropes are tied. To the basket so they'll trail with minimal tangles. Down the row - the second row of Cascades - they went, David in the cab and Eric tyi...
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Hawksbill Cabin: Next Week We Harvest @hawksbillhops
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Next Week We Harvest @hawksbillhops. We've begun making preparations for the harvest at Hawksbill Hop Yards. When I look at the plants now, it's hard to believe that it has only been three months since we had our planting event (blog posts here. Our Cascades are doing especially well, considering they're only in their first year, and we're "hoppy" with the action overo n the Chinook and Columbus/CTZ rows as well. Labels: Hawksbill Hop Yards. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Hawksbill Cabin: June 2015
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015. HawksbillHops - General Goin's On. Here's an overall view of the hop yard. I'm amazed to think that we had our planting event on May 2, and here we are, just two months later, with good prospects for harvest across all of our varieties - Cascade, Chinook, Columbus/CTZ, Fuggles, and Goldings. Here's a look at the buckwheat cover on our empty row. That buckwheat honey will combine nicely with the Fuggles crop from Hawksbill Hop Yards to make a unique and tasty farmhouse product!
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Hawksbill Cabin: Nature Break at Hawksbill Cabin
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Thursday, August 6, 2015. Nature Break at Hawksbill Cabin. I was taking care of some chores on Saturday afternoon and happened to catch a little movement out of the corner of my eye. It turned out to be this little praying mantis, no more than an inch and a half long. We get them every year in the gardens at the cabin, sometimes I see them when they're young, but more frequently I see the mature ones, since they're bigger and much easier to spot. I think this is the smallest one I've seen to date. Upcomi...
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Hawksbill Cabin: Returning the Favor @pendruidbrewing
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Monday, August 3, 2015. Returning the Favor @pendruidbrewing. Pen Druid's soft opening on July 31. A few weeks back, we had visitors from a couple of breweries out at the hop yards - Pen Druid Brewing, who were on the verge of opening over the mountain in Sperryville, and Tin Cannon, who operate in Gainesville, not too much farther away. I put up this post. We really had a great day at the farm visiting with these folks and learning that much more about the Virginia Craft Brewing Industry. That's really ...
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Hawksbill Cabin: August 2015
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Thursday, August 27, 2015. The 2015 Hops Harvest @hawksbillhops - Part 6 (finale). Finally, the last day of our week-long harvest had arrived. All the activities we had left to complete were the final lot of oasting and packaging two rows of the Cascades. Before getting to work on that, I took a walk over to the hop yard for a look at it now that all the hops had been taken down. Here's a photo of the hops we harvest and packaged -. Totaling around 50 pounds - now they're off to brewers! Our final yield ...
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Hawksbill Cabin: The Watchful Eye @hawksbillhops
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015. The Watchful Eye @hawksbillhops. Here's a branch of Chinook cones. Piney goodness. This weekend we walked through the hop yard scouting the plants for signs that they are ready - our conclusion is yes they are! We have finally agreed upon the dates we're going to do this: August 6-12. We're planning an event associated with it, so those details are forthcoming. But that is how it goes sometimes. It's been a lot of fun so far, and I'm looking forward to each step of the way. Rescue...
