Hop farm and field on the regional border West-Flanders and Wallonia, time lapse video in early summer.
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Imagine hundreds of vintage wooden telephone poles aligned in rows with wires and trellis on which plants grow vertically. This may look as an unusual landscape but it actually means gold for the brewery sector. In Belgium most of the hop plants and hop businesses are run in Flanders in the area of the city Poperinge. The total belgian production is not as huge compared to the US one. But it has a reputation of variety and terroir; its high quality makes it a top choice an a key ingredient for the brewering process.
The town of Warneton lies handlocked between the territories of France on one side and Flanders Region on the other side. But it is part of Wallonia’s Hainaut province. This is where the Forrest Farm runs a family exploitation since decades and supplies 15 tons each year of hop cones to breweries where authentic and exquisite beers are made.
This location is original because of its position on regional borders. But these grewing fields were former battlefields : World War One has left scares in this part of the 1914-1918 Western Front. Relics and remains, monuments and memorials… remind to the visitor this deadly history : Ploegsteert Memorial, Christmas Truce Memorial, Island of Ireland Peace Park, New Zealand War Cemetery, are so close to each other that you will never find so many traces in such a close area elsewhere.(Read more about this subject : Belgian Hop)
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