Peter Weathers, left, and sister Erica Lorentz, of Sodbuster Farms in Salem, Ore. SALEM — Peter Weathers stooped to pick up a green, pine cone-like hop flower. Weathers and his sister, Erica Lorentz, ...

Sometimes they call it ''the blue machine," and other times it's the machine that grower Don Desmarais built 15 years ago in Mabton. Technically, it's a low-trellis hop picker. The folks at Green Acre ...

MOXEE — The annual hop harvest is underway at CLS Farms near Moxee, and over the next month it will involve several hundred workers, around-the-clock effort and the near-constant hum of machinery and ...

The new trend of processing ’wet hops’ harks back to an earlier era. Hops! In early Septembers 70, 80 or 100 years ago, they were the main topic of Santa Rosa’s street-corner conversations. It was not ...