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IAWTV Chairman’s Note and New York Meeting

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:44:35 -0500

IAWTV Chairman’s Note and New York Meeting

Party Sunday @ Barnsdall -- Wine+Food+Art+Music

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:10:53 -0500

Official Silver Lake Art Crawl Party at Barnsdall Art Park From 1pm-4pm, the Silver Lake Art Crawl will be celebrating our collective neighborhoods and the creativity of our community with a picnic on the Hollyhock House Lawn sponsored by the Barnsdall Art Park Foundation and Dos Equis. Featuring art, music, dancing and drinks provided by City Sip & Dos Equis, and food from Let’s Be Frank, Dosa Truck, Del Lemonade, Tiago Coffee, and Coolhaus Ice Cream! Tunes provided by KCRW’s Mario CottoRSVP to purchase a Wine Tasting with City Sip LA*Free Parking at Kaiser Permanente* Hollyhock House at Barnsdall Art Park - 4800 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027

This Weekend: Silver Lake Art Crawl 2009!

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:07:31 -0500

This Weekend: Silver Lake Art Crawl 2009!

Join us for the Silver Lake Art Crawl 2008 This Weekend

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:07:01 -0500

Join us for the Silver Lake Art Crawl 2008 This Weekend

Amazing Progress

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:06:09 -0400

Hopshare attended Sunday’s FLAG Meeting at Farmlab, and noted the extraordinary growth of the surviving hops. We have three remaining Horizon hops that are flourishing, and the Nugget looks healthy but has not passed half a foot of growth. But the Williamette and Mt. Hood hops have exploded in growth, and the vines have extended past three feet, growing over the walls of the agbins. We will be training them up the tower this week.

Survivors: Horizon-3, Goldings-0, Mt. Hood-2, Williamete-2, Cascade-0, Nugget-1

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:04:42 -0400

Survivors: Horizon-3, Goldings-0, Mt. Hood-2, Williamete-2, Cascade-0, Nugget-1

Visit to the Culver City Homebrewing Supply Co. hops. The hops...

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Visit to the Culver City Homebrewing Supply Co. hops. The hops have grown to the top of the building, and are beginning to flower. I got some thick twine to begin training the Farmlab hops.

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Horizon: 3 Goldings: 0 Mt. Hood: 2 Williamete: 3 Cascade: 0 Nugget: 1

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:02:03 -0400

Horizon: 3 Goldings: 0 Mt. Hood: 2 Williamete: 3 Cascade: 0 Nugget: 1

Rescue mission: hops. Several of the hops have died or...

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:56:00 -0400

Rescue mission: hops. Several of the hops have died or haven’t broken soil, but Brady and I did a little digging and found healthy shoots just under the surface. Hopefully these hops will show themselves soon.

The Horizon hops are doing quite well. We will need to begin training them up to the water tower.

We have had a couple of casualties at the HopShare Farmlab...

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:33:00 -0400

We have had a couple of casualties at the HopShare Farmlab Agbins. Some of the hops have overheated and died. We are looking into ways to create growth shade using other non-competitive species in the sames bins. We planted a large squash plant in one of the bins today.

Activity On The HopShare Watering Log

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:55:00 -0400

We have been experimenting with a mobile tumblog to update HopShare participants on watering down at Farmlab. Hopgardeners can now send a short message directly to the blog via sms or email. Here is today’s update on waterme.tumblr.com by Fernando Marcheselli:

“I watered today about 1” of water per plant. I also added mulch to all the plants that are out of the soil. Friday I will return for another watering, or let me know otherwise.”

Local Home Brewing Clubs - Newsletters

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:16:00 -0400

Brews & News June 2008 - Maltose Falcons Home Brewing Society (Woodland Hills, CA)

Pacific Gravity Gazette May 2008 - Pacific Gravity Home Brewers Club (Culver City, CA)

The Brews Telegram May 2008 - Long Beach Homebrewers (Long Beach, CA)

Dregs from the Keg April 2008 - Strand Brewers Club (Redondo Beach, CA)

Well trained Nugget hops in all their resplendent glory from Joe...

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Well trained Nugget hops in all their resplendent glory from Joe Nascenzi’s HopShare site in Mar Vista, CA:

“Healthy hop vines at the top of the trellis. There are small hop buds on there.”

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Photo courtesy Joe Nascenzi

New HopShare partner in Mar Vista: We welcome Enegren brewer Joe...

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:57:00 -0400

New HopShare partner in Mar Vista:

We welcome Enegren brewer Joe Nascenzi, who runs the hop garden at Ocean View Farms, to the HopShare project.

Photo courtesy Joe Nascenzi

I checked out the Enegren Brewing Co. (unbelieveable homebrew...

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:33:00 -0400

I checked out the Enegren Brewing Co. (unbelieveable homebrew operation in Moorpark, CA) and I was just blown away. It’s fully automated and they even have their own uniforms.

We brewed a fourteen gallon all-grain batch of Kolsch. One of the members of the brewery is also growing hops at Ocean View Farms, a community garden in Mar Vista.

We anticipate extensive collaboration with the Enegren brewers, whose chief engineer is planning to design a fully automated drip irrigation system and weather station down at the Farmlab site.

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