Summer seasonal Blackberry Kombucha now on tap!

BLACKBERRY SUMMER: Look at the size of the blackberries coming in to the kitchen at Half Hill Farm. They are so big and juicy that they literally exploded all over the walls from the press!

    

Shamma took most of the impact like a champ, but we are officially floor to ceiling deep in Blackberry Summer – literally two days into wiping the walls down. We can’t thank our neighbors enough for growing and picking for us this year. It is quite the year for them!

Our craft Summer seasonal Blackberry Kombucha is an annual favorite made with love from locally grown blackberries and blended with our probiotic kombucha for a cold, carbonated gut-healthy soda alternative. Get a 16 oz cup ($2.50) or 64 oz growler refill ($10) on tap exclusively at our shops:

Certified organic hops taking root in Tennessee

Two things I’m very excited about arrived at the farm this week. First is the endomycorrhizal fungi I’ll tell you more about later. The second are the first of our Cascade and Centennial hop rhizomes! They’ll go in our freshly cut beds as soon as the weather permits.

Half Hill Farm is the only farm in Tennessee providing a local source of USDA certified organic hops (certifying April 2013). The Tennessee Department of Agriculture stopped keeping records of Tennessee’s hop production sometime before Prohibition when machine harvesting began concentrating the nation’s hop production in other states. The USDA could find no records of commercial production in Tennessee.

Half Hill Farm is proud to serve the needs of a growing craft beer culture in Tennessee that celebrates an American craft spirit of community, ingenuity, and sustainability. If you are a local craft brewer and want to visit our farm, get in touch, and grow with us!