Humbolt Counties Own

It all started with Phil’s wild ideas of creating never before seen additives to help his garden grow. He loved reading plant science journals and patents while playing around with his garden in a tractor shed back in the early 90’s. The concoctions he was creating were only intended for himself, but once his neighbors saw how nice his garden looked, they wanted what he was using. It wasn’t long after that Phil started sharing his concoctions with his neighbors and friends, and from there their popularity grew like a wildfire.  In 2002 the Leavitt’s opened Eel River Hydroponics in Fortuna and started giving out free samples of the products which drew customers into the store from all over Northern California. The first four of Phil’s concoctions were BushMaster, Gravity, Purple Maxx and Snow Storm Ultra which were completely different from anything anyone had ever seen before and all four were instant hits. Stores from San Francisco to Los Angeles heard what the products could do and came up to buy them. Soon the national distributors heard the buzz and, one by one, came to our store and offered to take the products across America. Never in Phil’s wildest dreams did he ever envision the concoctions he was making for himself in a tiny tractor shed in the middle of rural Humboldt County would ever turn into what has now become, Humboldt County’s Own.