Filling in the gap beneath the lawn's upper border and the house's raised deck is common hop (Humulus lupulus), an incredibly fast-growing vine that twines up wires run from the ground to the deck.

During the yearlong IRAP project, Nextleaf successfully developed a media treatment process to remove undesirable elements such as chlorophyll, carotenoids, and anthocyanins from crude extract, using common hops, a suitable analog for cannabis as the two are genetically related, and contain a similar pigment and oil profile.