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<\/a>Meet Matt Sweeny of Simple Earth Hops<\/a>.\u00a0 He is a farmer whose passion is ethically grown hops for local beer producers.\u00a0<\/p>\n Simple Earth Hops is a new 1\/4 acre hopyard located at Greenspirit Farm CSA<\/a> in Dodgeville, Wisconsin. The hopyard was founded with the idea of providing a much needed agricultural product for local craft brewers. Simple Earth Hops was established to demonstrate that local farmers can produce a consistent, sustainable supply of ultra high quality hops by working directly with local craft brewers while still maintaining a focus on ecology, the land and the people involved.<\/p>\n Matt with hops.\u00a0 (Photo by Renea Sweeny, Simple Earth Hops)<\/em><\/p>\n Funding for Simple Earth Hops is provided in part by a 2009 USDA-SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) grant. This small-scale commercial hopyard has been established by the Sweeny family of Dodgeville, Wisconsin who slowly grow earth friendly hops for local brewers with similar locavore ethics<\/a>.<\/p>\n They be having an Open House on Labor Day Weekend, September 4, 2010 at the hopyard.\u00a0 You may elect to volunteer<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0or just simply attend.\u00a0 Furthermore Beer<\/a> will be served.\u00a0 We’ll be there for a toast or three!\u00a0 Are you?\u00a0 Best wishes Sweeny family.<\/p>\n Matt Sweeny<\/em> 4346 Wisconsin 23 Meet Matt Sweeny of Simple Earth Hops.\u00a0 He is a farmer whose passion is ethically grown hops for local beer producers.\u00a0 Simple Earth Hops is a new 1\/4 acre hopyard located at Greenspirit Farm CSA in Dodgeville, Wisconsin. The hopyard was founded with the idea of providing a much needed agricultural product for local craft […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[710,123,122,121],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farms","tag-beer","tag-farm","tag-hops","tag-simple-earth-hops","no-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1728,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mattsweeny1.jpg\" "\\"mattsweeny\\"")
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\n210 S Lindsey Street
\nDodgeville, WI 53533
\nfattymattybrewing@gmail.com<\/td>\n\n Hopyard<\/h4>\n
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