Hops are slowly making a comeback in the Fraser Valley

A few years ago, Abbotsford farmer Raymond Bredenhof decided to give his poultry farm a little boost.
“I wanted to diversify my farm,” he told Postmedia News. “I wanted to do something that is a less-regulated industry; be more creative business-wise and marketing-wise. For me, (growing hops) was a new challenge.”
Bredenhof, who is the chair of the B.C. Hop Growers Association, planted six acres of the plant on his own farm in spring of 2016, and eight more acres at anoth