Business budding in Addison

Posted on October 18, 2012 |

• Feature Article
• Addison
• Economic Business Development Fund
• Featured
• food and ag

By Xian Chiang-Waren

ADDISON — Here’s some good news for Addison County localvores: The local foods movement is extending from your plate to your pint glass.

Across the state, encouraged by the UVM Extension Crops and Soil team’s Vermont Hops Project, more local hops growers are cropping up each year.

Kris Anderson, the owner of the Addison Hop Farm, is one of them. Anderson, a longtime homebrewer, began growing hops because he was looking for an “interesting crop” to play around with.

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