COPIA Gardens at a Glance
South Garden
1) Our Kitchen Garden is a key production area, providing produce for our restaurant, Julia’s Kitchen, and our educational programs.
2) In the COPIA KIDS Garden, children are encouraged to see, smell and touch to learn how we grow plants for food—from garden to table. They can also visit with the bunnies and chickens!
3) The Garden Pavilion is an outdoor teaching kitchen featuring a wood-burning oven.
4) The extensive James K. Edmund Memorial Lavender Collection includes approximately 40 different varieties from around the world.
5) Our demonstration Price and Franciscan Estate Vineyards show different trellising systems, as well as many of the grape varietals grown around the world.
6) In the Lacroute Seed Saving Garden, COPIA helps preserve the diverse heritage of American food crops by harvesting and saving seeds of rare and historic varieties of herbs, flowers and vegetables, which are then offered through the Seed Savers Exchange.
7) The Fruit Tree Orchards contain apricots, apriums, cherries, citrus, nectarines, peaches, plums and pluots.
8) In the Vegetable Trial squares, we grow and evaluate numerous varieties of heirloom and hybrid vegetables from around the world to determine crop performance in our soil and climate—seeking exceptional flavor, productivity and disease resistance.
9) The Backyard Garden Square offers inspiration for transplanting ideas represented at COPIA to your home garden.
North Garden
10) The Berry Patch features blackberries, boysenberries, lingonberries and raspberries.
11) The three Olive Groves feature California’s top varieties: Ascolano, Manzanillo, Mission and Sevillano.
12) Our Cultural Garden displays seasonal plantings of food crops representing different cultures that have settled in the United States. Previous plantings included Asian, Hmong, Mexican and Native Southwest themes.
13) The Maggetti White Wine and Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates Red Wine Gardens serve as sensory guides. The outside sections of each square contain fruits, flowers, herbs and vegetables representing flavors and aromas often used to describe wine made from a particular grape varietal. The inside sections are seasonally planted with vegetables and herbs that complement the wine.
14) The Insectary features plants that attract, nurture or feed beneficial insects that prey on crop pests—a key component of our organic system.
15) The Italian-American Garden celebrates the contributions of Italian-Americans—particularly in establishing Napa Valley as a world-class grape-growing region. It also recognizes COPIA’s building site as the original home and working farm of an Italian-American family.
16) Julia’s Kitchen chefs love to season what we eat and drink in our restaurant using plants from the Daphne Araujo Herb Garden.
17) The California Walnut Commission Nut Grove includes almonds, chestnuts, filberts, pecans, pistachios and, of course, walnuts. A new Greenhouse and Demonstration Kitchen will soon be incorporated into this space.
18) The Edible Presentation Gardens are classic examples of edible landscape design. Each square is planted with perennial herbs, edible flowers and annual vegetables, anchored by mature fruit trees and flowing high-bush blueberries.
NOTE: Naming opportunities for certain COPIA Edible Gardens beds are still available. Please call 707.265.5917.
