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    Readers share tales of treasured family plants.

    Aug 31, 2018 5 minutes

    TRAVELING FAMILY HOPS

    My family has hops running through our family tree, going back several generations. We’ve never made beer (that I know of), but we’ve used them in all of our homes across the country to shade the hottest side of our homes in the summer. Hops grow quickly and are very hardy — two things that are required for anything to grow successfully in Montana.

    When he was young, my great-grandfather traveled to Montana from Illinois on a grand adventure. He wanted to live in the Wild West and become a rancher. In 1910, his dream came true when he and a partner gathered enough money to buy Belmont Park Ranch, a modest ranch house covered in hops.

    These hops came from a man named William Hillhouse Raymond, who started the Belmont Park Ranch

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