Producer
Oz Garden
Address: PO Box 77 13700 County Road 1 13700 County Rd One Eagleville, CA, 96110
Phone: 650-773-4866
About Us
Oz (“O-hanging-z") Garden in located in the center of Eagleville across from the old store and church. Our hoop house, green house and garden area sit behind the Eagleville Saloon on 1/4th acre. A small flock of chickens help us keep the soil fertile by processing buckets of compost and wheelbarrow loads of weeds while also providing us eggs we use to make our Oz breads. A small orchard is situated on the other 3 acres; some have “heritage status” and others have been recently planted. We harvest a lot of fruit in the fall and offer dried apples and pears throughout the year.
We specialize in odd vegetable and herb varieties and value-added items. We enjoy making up recipes for mixing up your own horseradish sauce, lovage pesto and sorrel soup. Herbs for teas and condiments grow in between the rows of annual crops and in the hoop house. They also serve as pollinator magnets and look so beautiful. Bees love our hedgerows of black currants and raspberries we use to make the Oz Jams.
During the winter and early spring, we depend on our hoop house to grow flat peas, greens and even zucchini. From June on through the fall most of the garden operations are outside but we also take advantage of the hoop's shelter to raise cherry tomatoes and basils.
June Perry’s “Old Fashion Surprise Valley Tomato” has been a big hit with our customers. After several efforts to get it going and ripened in time for the Farmer’s Market and fall Hub market, we managed to plant it in the right spot and use our warm packing shed to help ripen the late fruits. We grow onions, garlic, peppers, squash and cole crops outside along with "mouse melons" (a tiny cucumber) and a sweet tomatillo called "cape gooseberry" or "capuli" in Peru.
Our greenhouse helps us start most everything we grow along with pots of “Food for your Soul” bulbs and our "plant pets' - a large variety of succulents we bring to the Farmers Market. We also forage for bitter herbs and violets in the springtime while waiting for our high desert garden to warm up for its notoriously short growing season here in Modoc County. A big thanks to our Modoc Harvest Hub team and all the other producers and of course all you who are customers!
Kay and Erik Antunez de Mayolo
We specialize in odd vegetable and herb varieties and value-added items. We enjoy making up recipes for mixing up your own horseradish sauce, lovage pesto and sorrel soup. Herbs for teas and condiments grow in between the rows of annual crops and in the hoop house. They also serve as pollinator magnets and look so beautiful. Bees love our hedgerows of black currants and raspberries we use to make the Oz Jams.
During the winter and early spring, we depend on our hoop house to grow flat peas, greens and even zucchini. From June on through the fall most of the garden operations are outside but we also take advantage of the hoop's shelter to raise cherry tomatoes and basils.
June Perry’s “Old Fashion Surprise Valley Tomato” has been a big hit with our customers. After several efforts to get it going and ripened in time for the Farmer’s Market and fall Hub market, we managed to plant it in the right spot and use our warm packing shed to help ripen the late fruits. We grow onions, garlic, peppers, squash and cole crops outside along with "mouse melons" (a tiny cucumber) and a sweet tomatillo called "cape gooseberry" or "capuli" in Peru.
Our greenhouse helps us start most everything we grow along with pots of “Food for your Soul” bulbs and our "plant pets' - a large variety of succulents we bring to the Farmers Market. We also forage for bitter herbs and violets in the springtime while waiting for our high desert garden to warm up for its notoriously short growing season here in Modoc County. A big thanks to our Modoc Harvest Hub team and all the other producers and of course all you who are customers!
Kay and Erik Antunez de Mayolo
Practices
We use "organic practices", that is, we do lots of hand weeding with the help of two gardeners during the active garden seasons and rely on natural predators to control pests. We do use lots of composted horse and chicken manure, along with fish emulsion, gypsum and spoiled milk.