WHO WE ARE

Eden & Dane is more than a landscape design firm — we’re ecological alchemists. We transform yards into living systems that nourish people, soil, and climate. Rooted in permaculture principles, elevated by sustainable solidarity, and informed by work in climates as extreme as the desert and as gentle as the meadow, we create landscapes that thrive and blossom.

Our Story & Vision

I’m Dane Hoover - principal designer, soil whisperer, tech-meets-wilderness fan. As someone who’s designed in scorching desert zones and humid mid-Atlantic soils alike, I know you can’t just “copy-paste” landscapes. You must listen to the land. Over time, I’ve clocked projects: designing landscapes and sustainability projects all over the world; restoring degraded soils; integrating renewable systems, water capture, and regenerative planting. Each has sharpened my craft and deepened my mission: to pull landscapes out of the “extractive” paradigm and into a future where they give back.

Eden — it’s the idea, the promise. A garden that invites you to live in harmony, abundance, and dignity.

What we do

. Vision & Audit

We begin by understanding you and your site — its climate, soil, hydrology, sun, wind, and existing ecology. If LEED or other certification is in the picture, we map to those metrics from day one.

2. Design That Performs

We don’t settle for pretty. Our designs integrate food forests, native plant guilds, water harvesting, passive energy, and closed-loop systems. Everything is intentionally placed — not aesthetic afterthoughts, but structural, resilient, high-functioning systems.

3. Build & Implement

From earthworks to plant installation to system piping — we bring every part of the vision to life with craftsmanship and precision. We calibrate as the landscape grows, evolve, and responds.

4. Long-Term Stewardship

We stay in the loop. Through ongoing support, maintenance, monitoring, and iteration, we help your landscape mature into a regenerative ecosystem.

Why Work With Eden & Dane

You get regenerative rigor, not greenwashing. Certification alignment (LEED, Estidama, etc.) is built in. Your property transitions from a cost center to an ecological asset. We design to enhance carbon sequestration, water efficiency, and ecosystem resilience. You tap into niche services few designers offer — mushroom inoculation, rock art & cairns, biomimetic interventions, and more.

Our Promise

You’ll get a landscape that becomes more beautiful over time, produces food, captures water, enriches soils, and fortifies your home against climate stressors. And you’ll have a partner in that journey - someone who sees your land’s potential as clearly as you do.

Always in your corner

Even after the completion of a design, consultation, or project, Eden and Dane is here to help. Consultation is always available, and maintenance can be hired to ensure your property is dealt with properly.

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Who's Dane?

Dane is a lover of all things nature since he was a boy. He spent countless running around the woods, getting to know its plants and animals, and eventually studying them and getting a degree.

He has been a foraging instructor, a garden aid, a garden designer, and so much more. His passion is to share the wonders of nature and help people grow their own food and be more sustainable.

Dane Hoover is the principal designer for Eden and Dane. He has a background in permaculture, gardening, earthships, mycology, design, and BA in Sustainble Community Development.

From gardening as a child to participating in the campus-wide redesign of his college, he has contributed and created plenty of permaculture designs. He helped client’s plan and plant to counteract and benefit from the monsoon rain patterns, as well as tolerate the harsh sun and arid climate. He also works in the climactic polarization of the desert, the Mid-Atlantic part of the United States – Northern Virginia in Particular.

Dane is a unique designer with a wide set of skills able to create a complete and beautiful system of food production for you, your family, and your property. Schedule a meeting to get to know him and get consultation to grow your own food, increase your property’s value, and to make it more beautiful.

Contact him for consultation and designs today.

Who's Eden?

Eden is not a person, but a reference to the garden of Eden, a place famous for it’s tempting food. And that’s the idea of Eden and Dane. To make your home sweet home even sweeter. 

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The Eden and Dane Process

Step 1: Share Your Vision
Tell us about your goals, your inspirations, and how you imagine living in your space. Whether it’s natural beauty, functionality, or something truly unique, we listen deeply to understand your dream landscape.

Step 2: Tailored Proposal & Recommendations
We craft a bespoke proposal that outlines creative directions, practical solutions, and budget considerations — all aligned with your desired outcomes.

Step 3: Custom Design & Strategy
Our team develops a comprehensive design and strategy, blending artistry with ecological intelligence. We consider every element: aesthetics, performance, sustainability, and long-term beauty.

Step 4: Your Feedback & Refinement
We present our vision for your approval and welcome your input. Together, we refine the design until it feels exactly right.

Step 5: Crafting & Installation
Our skilled craftsmen and installation teams bring the design to life with care and precision, ensuring every stone, plant, and feature is placed to perfection.

Step 6: Ongoing Care & Stewardship
Our maintenance team continues the relationship, tending to your landscape so it thrives for years to come — healthy, balanced, and beautiful.

Let’s begin with a conversation.
Speak directly with Eden and Dane to explore your ideas and challenges. Book your consultation, and we’ll guide you toward a landscape that feels like home and grows more beautiful with time.

FAQ

Absolutely. It needs stewardship at the beginning, and strategic planning, but after a point, it’s a faithful employee and self-directed. 

To reduce your carbon footprint, decrease water consumption (ideal in places prone to drought), reduce expenses of energy, and to combat deforestation.

EAD provides a range of niche services that are rare, valuable, and done right. EAD is the right choice because most landscapers do not offer these services, let alone know about them with the same depth. 

Comprehensive consultation, relevant and detailed documentation, as well as discounted further consultation and design rates.

It depends on your goal. If you just want some annual vegetables, that can do the trick. But for those who pursue sustainability, more renewable food sources, and a hands-off approach to food growing, I can help you reach those goals. 

Simply put, it’s a system that has ‘biomimicry’ – an attempted recreation of an actual, thriving ecosystem. Like an actual forest. Therefore, all of its inhabitants (flora and fauna) collaborate to make it more productive and healthy. 

It will raise your home’s value by giving it more curb appeal, color, food options, and more. Research has shown that implementing landscaping projects has a significant increase of value. 

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