Hop Hollow Farm


When Joshua and I met, he told me he never wanted to own his own business.

We changed our minds after disliking our former place of employment. We both worked together and ended our jobs on the same day.  Very scary start.  After a handful of years in business, we are both very happy with our choice to go out on our own.  For instance, today's seizure, I would not have been able to take time off at my past job for my dog.

Besides personal time, the most rewarding part of owning our own business is quality and treating customers as we would like to be treated.  Running an honest small scale business that buys 98% locally (with attempt to be 100 percent).  However, as time goes on, we realize that we will not be able to do the labor part of our business forever. It is taxing on our bodies while we are in our 30's.  Eventually it is going to be very difficult.

So, we have started brainstorming to a retirement plan.  We are attempting to set money back, but realize we will not be able to set enough back for a comfortable retirement.  We decided to start selling as much produce off our property as possible.

We started growing hops for sale, blueberries, rasberries, attempting paw paws, ect.. The once Joshua, who will never own his own business, now owns two.  We started our farm last night and registered the name, Hop Hollow Farm.  We plan on selling hops to local establishment this year and perhaps some of our berries.  We will be small scale at first, but we wanted to start establishing our business name.

Who knows where this adventure may lead us, but hopefully it will be a fun ride.