We Grow The Revolution

Grow the Revolution

Welcome to the Revolution Garden, a wondrous place blooming with over 82 different fruits, roots, botanicals and vegetables. Maintained by our very own Plant Whisperer Stacia, this garden provides us with experimental crops for our brewers to get creative with. This year we crafted three different beers inspired by ingredients grown right here in the Garden: Counter Currant, Rhubarb Schmubabrb and Marionberry Sour all started as an idea and blossomed into reality thanks to this small patch of dirt.

The Revolution Garden at Rogue Farms in Independence, Oregon is where inspiration is grown.

Voo, The Rogue Farms potbellied pig, helps dig some holes.

Rogue brewers were inspired to brew Rhubarb Schmubarb, a fruited ale with rhubarb and strawberry, by the ingredients grown in the Revolution Garden at Rogue Farms in Independence, Oregon.

What the Heck is a Marionberry

Brewmaster John Maier picks ripe marionberries.

Great question - Here at Rogue Farms we are lucky enough to cultivate a rare breed of berries native to Oregon. Nearly all the marionberries produced in the United States are grown within a couple of hours from our farm. A cousin to the blackberry, these hybrid berries are larger and more flavorful than their parent plants. They also have another very special feature - they are prickless. No thorns means

happy picking and a better harvest which ultimately means happy brewers.

Marionberry Sour is a beer brewed with marionberries grown at Rogue Farms in Independence, Oregon.

This is a perfect example of a crop that started small in our Revolution Garden and proved to be worth the effort of trimming, training and maintaining every year. Our acre of Marionberries will be harvested by hand in late June and will be used to brew our Marionberry Sour.

Training marionberries is no easy task. Each plant requires individual attention from our gardeners to ensure proper growth.

The highly laborious process involves cutting the dry, dead floricanes that produced this years berries and carefully training the bright green primocanes to the two-wire trellis for next year’s harvest. The primocanes can grow over 20 feet long.