Quick overview of the Project's goals

The goal of this 3-year project is to show that a traditionally "high maintenance" or "high-input" crop such as hops can be grown with less labor, infrastructure, machinery, and without any chemicals, fertilizers, or irrigation while also yielding a superior product, preventing soil erosion, and breaking atmospheric C02 and binding carbon back into the soil. It's already being done on some small farms for high-yielding corn (ex.  Mr. Gabe Brown, mentioned in The Soil Will Save Us by Kristin Ohlson - www.brownsranch.us/, also see "Restoration Agriculture by Mark Shepard) which requires more nutrients than hops, so i figure it would work just as well. Plus, craft brewing is so popular right now, I figure word about better farming practices would spread quickly if there is something new and environmentally friendly hitting the market.

Thanks for reading - EHP