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Add communal farming to the brewery s list of cool side projects Visitors to Worthy Brewing can t help but notice the hopyard is looking a bit barren. It s not that the land proved infertile. Quite the contrary; it s being repurposed into a new organic farm, the latest venture for the Worthy Garden Club, the brewery s nonprofit highlighting sustainable practices. The new farm came on suddenly, says Lisa Sanco, Worthy Garden Club s sustainability educator, as many of (founder Roger Worthington) s ideas do. Worthington is also the guy who deemed the brewery ought to have its own astronomical observatory, the Hopservatory. Chuck Greenwood