Whole-property master plans
A scaled plan for the entire site — circulation, grading, water, planting, structures — sequenced into phases you can afford one season at a time.
Residential · Acreage · Small farmFairview, Utah · Est. 2026Regenerating landscapes.
Regenerating landscapes.
Restoring connection.
A design studio for Utah’s high desert. We plan yards, acreages, and small farms that hold their own water, feed native pollinators, and get better every year instead of more expensive.
1,100Native bee species in Utah
Utah has more native bees than any state but California. Almost none of them live in a hive. They are solitary — mason bees sealing tunnels with mud, leafcutters lining nests with cut rounds of leaf, digger bees working a foot below the surface.
Roughly seven in ten nest in the ground. That is the bee the studio is named after, and it is why our plans start with soil and water rather than with a plant list. Habitat is what you get when the landscape is built correctly.
01 — Services
What we design
Design and documentation only. You get drawings clear enough that any competent installer can build from them — or that you can build yourself, one phase at a time.
Water harvesting & drainage
Swales on contour, basins, berms, dry creek beds, and roof-water capture, laid out from real elevations so runoff soaks in where you want it.
Grading · Swales · Rain gardensPollinator habitat
Planting designed for unbroken bloom April through October, with bare ground, pithy stems, and nesting structure left in on purpose.
Forage · Nesting · OverwinteringFood forests & edible landscape
Fruit, nut, berry, and perennial vegetable layers arranged for the light, water, and chill hours you actually have — not a zone-7 catalog.
Orchard · Guilds · Kitchen gardenLawn conversion & native palettes
Turf removal that does not end in bare gravel. Plant palettes chosen for Great Basin soils, alkalinity, elevation, and deer pressure.
Waterwise · Natives · Deer-resistantPermaculture consulting
A walk of the property and a written report: what is failing, what the site is already trying to do on its own, and the order to fix things in.
Site visit · Report · Half or full day02 — How we choose plants
Something in bloom, every week of the season
A pollinator garden is not a plant list, it is a calendar. If the bloom breaks for three weeks in July, the bees that hatched in your yard in April are gone. Here is a working succession for 5,000–6,500 ft.
Ribes aureumGolden currant
Blooms Apr through May. The first real nectar of the year. Blue orchard mason bees emerge to meet it, and the fruit follows in July.
Amelanchier utahensisUtah serviceberry
Blooms Apr through May. Native shrub, white bloom, edible berry. Mining bees work it hard on warm April afternoons.
Penstemon eatoniiFirecracker penstemon
Blooms Apr through Jun. A hummingbird plant that bumble bee queens rob from the side, biting through the base of the tube. Thrives on neglect.
Linum lewisiiBlue flax
Blooms May through Jul. Opens at dawn, drops its petals by afternoon, reseeds itself into gravel. Pollen for sweat bees.
Penstemon strictusRocky Mountain penstemon
Blooms Jun through Jul. The workhorse of the palette. Deer walk past it, bumble bees do not.
Eriogonum umbellatumSulphur buckwheat
Blooms Jun through Aug. Holds the midsummer gap that kills most pollinator plantings. Feeds small native bees and blue butterflies.
Monarda fistulosaWild bergamot
Blooms Jul through Aug. Peak-season nectar, and it coincides with leafcutter bees cutting rounds of leaf to line their nests.
Cleome serrulataRocky Mountain bee plant
Blooms Jul through Sep. An annual that seeds into disturbed ground. Sow it once on a new site and let it move where it wants.
Heliomeris multifloraShowy goldeneye
Blooms Jul through Sep. Late-summer volume. Leave the stems standing over winter — they are nest sites, not mess.
Ericameria nauseosaRubber rabbitbrush
Blooms Aug through Oct. The last meal of the year, and it feeds nearly everything still flying. Non-negotiable in our plans.
Bloom windows are approximate for 5,000–6,500 ft in central and northern Utah and shift a week or two with aspect, elevation, and spring temperature. Every plan gets a palette built for the specific site.
03 — Process
Four phases, in order
Each phase ends in a deliverable you own. Stop after any one of them and you still have something useful in your hands.
Phase 01
Observe
A site visit and a full read of the property: sun, wind, slope, soil, water movement, existing plants, and what you actually want to do out there.
- Site visit & measure
- Soil & drainage check
- Base map
Phase 02
Design
Concept plan first — rough zones and shapes, cheap to change. Then the drawn plan, rendered so you can see the place before anything is dug.
- Concept plan
- Two revision rounds
- Rendered master plan
Phase 03
Document
The build set: planting plan with quantities, grading and water layout, irrigation zones, materials, and a phasing plan with budget ranges.
- Planting plan & list
- Grading & irrigation
- Phasing & budget
Phase 04
Steward
Installer handoff, then a seasonal calendar for the first three years — when to water, when to cut back, and when to leave it alone.
- Contractor handoff
- 3-year care calendar
- Annual walkthrough
04 — Studio
A design studio, not a landscaping crew
Earth Bee Studio is a regenerative landscape design practice based in Fairview, Utah, working across Sanpete Valley, Utah Valley, and the Wasatch Front.
Most landscape work here starts with what is for sale at the nursery and ends with an irrigation bill. We start with the water and the soil, design the planting to the site’s real conditions, and draw it clearly enough to build from. The result costs less to run every year it is in the ground.
We do not install. That is deliberate — it means the plan is drawn for your site rather than for our equipment, and you are free to bid it out, phase it over several seasons, or build it yourself.
05 — Start
Tell us about the property
Send the address, roughly what you are hoping for, and anything that is already failing out there. We reply within two business days with a scope, a fee, and a realistic timeline.
hello@earthbeestudio.com
Fairview, Utah