Bergen brothers bring Sapienza Design to Brooklyn — Originally published in the May/June 2014 issue of Rochester, NY’s (585) magazine. For an expat of those wide-open spaces that surround our Flower City, nostalgia paints memories of driving down backroads scattered with farmhouses and fields. The weatherworn beams of old barns sprout from the earth like the ruins of…

Farm Brewery License ushers in an era of homegrown hops and malthouses — Originally published in the March/April 2014 issue of Rochester, NY’s (585) magazine. A new breed of breweries is cropping up all over the state — with hopyards and malthouses sprouting alongside them. Modeled after the New York Farm Winery act of 1976 that launched the Finger Lakes wine region into…

Hops provide a booming option for agricultural entrepreneurs — Excerpted from a three-part story originally published in the March/April 2014 issue of Rochester, NY’s (585) magazine. Bluebell Hopyard’s story begins with three disparate lives: Kurt Charland, an engineer; Rob Potter, a retired schoolteacher; and Fred Armstrong, owner of a Rochester animation studio, whose mutual backyard hobby brought them together…