Even if you never plan on using them to make homemade beer, hops (Humulus lupulus) create beautiful living fences. For thousands of years, hops have been cultivated across the Northern Hemisphere and ...

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There are some fields so vast that they seem to stretch beyond the horizon. The long rows, punctuated with tall trellises that coax miles and miles of bright green hops (Humulus lupulus) skyward, are ...