Besides just making fantastic beer, we are also experimenting and pushing the craft industry through our companionship with the farm that we reside on.  Our brewery and tasting room operate out of a beautifully restored 1800’s hop house, with a sizable outdoor space for customers, a concert stage, and scenic rolling hills and views of the Schoharie Valley.  We are also in year 4 of cultivating a permaculture style, no-chemical, mixed fruit orchard.  We employ regenerative methods like using hardwood chips inoculated with stropharia mushroom spawn to build soil, living mulch to fertilize and keep down weed pressure, and using non-chemical methods like spraying whey instead of fungicides on tree’s.  We are also a beekeeping farm with several apiaries spread throughout the immedate area, growing our outfit every year to meet ever increasing demand. There are also free ranging chickens on farm, and soon will be adding pigs to the system as well.  The point of this is to demonstrate how a brewery and farm can fit together as a full circle, with inputs and outputs being done sustainably; improving the land, soil and animals within the system.  The mixed fruit and honey produced on farm, as well as other farmed or foraged ingredients are used in our special long term aged NY wild ales, that rest in oak barrels and are bottle conditioned on the honey before being released.  The spent mash from the brewery will go towards feeding our animals, the animals will then fertilize our plants, which will then be used to make more beer.  Our goal is to continue to learn, grow, and hopefully inspire others while we strive towards our vision of becoming a true destination in Upstate New York.