“While we continue to work toward protecting our watershed here on our farm, we believe true sustainability requires ongoing conversation and collaboration. We are grateful for the opportunity the Brewshed Alliance provides to engage with brewers and conservationists around the importance of protecting our watershed.”
Staci Wallace, Crosby Hop Farm, LLC.
Crosby Hop Farm
Mission: Crosby Hop Farm provides craft brewers the highest quality hop products available from around the world, delivered with an exceptional customer relationship experience. Crosby Hop Farm’s sustainable farming methods along with its meticulous processing techniques capture the essence of each hop flower, an essential ingredient in the best beverage on Earth — beer.
Established: 1900 (read more about Crosby Hop Farm history here)
Based: Woodburn, Oregon
Website: crosbyhops.com
About: We market our hop products to, and value our relationships with, craft brewers, home-brewers, distributors and beer enthusiasts alike. Our primary crop is hops, which allows us the time to focus exclusively on producing quality hop products year in and year out – value, quality and reliability are the cornerstones of our operation. Our beautiful family farm is located in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Nestled between the Cascade Mountains and the Oregon Coast, with its temperate climate, the Willamette Valley is an ideal hop growing environment, producing some of the finest flavor and aroma hops in the world.
Sustainability
Sustainability practices: From estate-grown hops cultivated and processed on our fifth-generation farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley to hand-selected hops from independent growers around the world, you always get hops that reflect our uncompromising standards and values – guaranteed. As a Certified B Corporation®, we balance profit with purpose to help our customers and communities grow. Our farm is powered by 100% renewable energy with a goal of attaining carbon neutrality in the next three to five years. Our vision for the future includes producing the lowest carbon-impact pound of hops delivered to your door. becoming a single-use-plastic-free workplace, and trailblazing innovative packaging that enables us to be more environmentally friendly and reduce our carbon footprint.
As certified Salmon-Safe growers, we share the Oregon Brewshed Alliance’s vision of doing our part to protect our watershed, which requires us to become increasingly responsible stewards of our land, both in and around the hop yards, and to look beyond our land to the impact our farming practices have downstream. Another crucial component of our Salmon-Safe commitment is a focus on biodiversity, which ultimately improves the health of our watersheds. Here at CHF, we have over 30 acres dedicated to biodiversity on our farm, including undisturbed riparian habitat.