Thursday, April 20, 2017

This is gonna save you a lot of money, here is why.

I keep getting blank looks from people. Is it how I am phrasing the statement?  How much more simple can I make this?

My way is the best and cheapest.

I will put this into context.  I am growing beyond-organic, 100% chemical-free (not even "organic" fertilizers or chemicals) hops and brewing ingredients that help to restore the soil ecosystem, improve drought resistance, decrease erosion, improve the health and quality of everything that grows on the farm, saves the bees and other pollinators, helps to decrease the amount of greenhouse gasses in the air, improves water quality of nearby streams and lakes, and more.

And it will cost you less money to buy your products from me and farms that adopt this growing method.

I can hear your skepticism...it sounds like crickets.

Current growing methods use a combination of the following:

Huge, cost-prohibitive infrastructure
    -telephone-pole trellis and heavy guage wire
    -irrigation systems
Chemical inputs
- Nitrogen fertilizer
- pesticides
-herbicides
-fungicide
Huge machinery
- infrastructure installation
- harvesting
- cultivation
Labor costs
 -weeding
-machine operators
-sprayers
-harvesting
-processing

To name a few

My method:

Reduced infrastructure cost - no irrigation, modified trellis
No chemicals
Reduced machinery to just processing and drying the harvest
Reduced labor costs - only labor is initial planting, hand-spreading seeds once in spring and once in fall, and harvest time - no weeding or cultivation or spraying.

That's a very brief summation, but there you have it. A lot less cost and hassle for the farmer means cost savings gets passed onto the brewer, and that gets passed onto the customer.  Plus, the very important fact that no harm comes to the soil, every year the soil improves, becomes more fertile,and the product becomes better as a result. Boom goes the dynamite.





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