Earth Hop Designs

08/13/2018

What if I told you that North America has an easy-to-grow native tropical fruit tree that you’ve never even heard of? The Pawpaw is our largest native fruit, and it tastes something like banana and mango with hints of vanilla (yum!). Nicknamed the “Appalachian Banana” or “poor man’s banana...

08/07/2018

Weeds are only called weeds because they come up in undesirable places where people are cultivating other crops. A lot of “weeds” are actually medicinal and nutritional powerhouses that are free and can be incorporated into every day cooking. Here’s some uses for the ever abundant purslane:::

Did you know purslane is considered the top most nutritious food on the planet? Here are 50 inspired purslane recipes, ideas, and tips.

06/20/2018

Tonight! Katy and I are offering a casual class/conversation on companion and successional planting to keep you eating fresh out of the garden year round! 🌻✨🌱

6-7:30pm at Alpine Botanicals downtown Nederland

04/29/2018

When we moved to our bush property two years ago self-sufficiency was high on the agenda. We wanted to produce our own electricity, collect rainwater and we certainly wanted to grow some or if possible most of our own food. This included an abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables and we both envisag...

04/21/2018

Elizabeth Agee, Nederland. Seeds are the ultimate symbols of a well-nourished and cultivated life. They represent, and encode, the genetic content needed to survive changing weather patterns, drast…

04/20/2018

It’s not too late to put in your order for bees!

Bee Packages for May 5th pick up Wheat Ridge Colorado we added a second drop due to demand. Our Bee Packages have been selling like Hot Cakes Smothered in Honey. Bee Packages $125 each for 2018 of 3 pounds of bees about 10,000 workers with a mated queen bee. Bee Packages with Italian Hybrid Queen the queens are breed for hygienic behavior, honey production and gentle nature. Taking orders now until sold out order online or at the store for May 5th 2018 pick up in Wheat Ridge.

Buy a bee package and use one or all of these coupons.
$10 off any bee jacket or suit
$10 off mite treatment tool
$5 off on a bee smoker
$10 off any starter hive

04/17/2018

One way to improve yields and create more biodiversity in your garden space is to establish a perennial backbone. These perennials also offer delicious foods and come back year after year

Instead of planting all of your veggies anew each year, try adding some of these perennial vegetable varieties to your garden and harvest their fruits again and again.

03/27/2018

Check out the link below for a free download of the new greywater handbook I collaborated on with Art Ludwig of Oasis Design.

https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/GWHB-ZL-8.5x11CounselEdition_LowRes.pdf

03/19/2018

History of vegetables reaches the most distant years of modern humankind, when hunter gatherers exited the Africa and started spreading across entire planet earth. As the birth of modern human civilizations, vegetables were identified as the sourced of great medicinal and nutritional power. Potato F...