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Fiddlehead Creek has dozens of types of native plants for gardens of all kinds, and soon, your favorite beer may be brewed from their hops.<\/em>\n<\/div>\n

By Jill Nagy<\/p>\n

Chris and Emily DeBolt grow hearty, sustainable, native plants in their Champlain Valley nursery. They are also trying, almost single-handedly, to revive commercial hops production in New York State.<\/p>\n

Their business, Fiddlehead Creek, is located in Hartford, New York, nestled between New York’s Adirondack Mountains and Vermont’s Green Mountains, near Ft. Ann. The address is Route 40, Hartford, New York; the map is on their website, http:\/\/fiddleheadcreek.com
\nThey began growing plants four years ago. This is their third year of retail sales. They offer a variety of shrubs, ferns, flowering perennials, “spring ephemera,” and specialized plants. There are plants to attract birds, including hummingbirds (try the bright red cardinal flower, for example), or butterflies. There are plants that will survive drought; others that will thrive on an occasional flood of rain runoff; and plants that make good buffers to protect local waters.
\nEverything is native to New York State. That makes Fiddlehead Creek a good place to start for a gardener wishing to replace invasive species with natives.<\/p>\n

They sell both retail and wholesale and offer consulting and design services as well. Chris also indulges his talent for woodworking and Emily, hers for photography. Many of the results are in their gift shop, including bird houses, bat boxes, tables, and photographs. A weekly blog describes and shows what is in bloom.<\/p>\n

And then there are the hops, one of the major ingredients of beer. It is a crop that was once grown extensively in New York State, but most of the United States production has moved to the Pacific Northwest. The DeBolts, especially Chris, are trying to change that. In 2009, they planted their first hops, trying out a few varieties. If all goes well, they will have their first commercial crop this year. They are members of the Northeast Hops Alliance, an organization trying to bring hops production back to the Upper Hudson\/Champlain region of New York State.<\/p>\n

The ambitious young couple – she is 29; he just turned 30 on July 4 – met as undergraduates at Cornell University. Their undergraduate majors had nothing to do with either hops or landscape plants, but they both went on to earn master’s degrees from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. They bought a house and about 20 acres of land and, literally, built their business. Initially, they both had day jobs to sustain themselves but Chris recently left his to farm fulltime. Emily still works for the Lake George Association.<\/p>\n

The telephone number for Fiddlehead Creek is (518) 632-5505.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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