From our backyard to Brooklyn, turning heirloom hops into delicious craft beer with artisanal brewer Ben Clayton of Freethought Beer. My partner Paul is a fifth generation Cooperstown, NY resident. He comes from a family of farmers, and with his siblings has inherited the family farm in Index, a blink-and-you'll-miss-it crossroads just south of Cooperstown. Historically, King Farm grew hay and raised dairy cattle. But it was also part of a little-known piece of agrarian he