2015 Announcements

May 10, 2015

Spring is finally here, and our market/events schedule is set up for the season. I'm sorry to say that once again WE WILL NOT HAVE CUT YOUR OWN LAVENDER HERE THIS SEASON. We will have enough lavender to create our products and may have an occasional limited number of bouquets for sale at the farmers market, but it will take us a few more years to build up our fields to our former amounts. We are replanting very slowly because we are still dealing with fungus issues.

Due to customer demand we are expanding our herbal offerings this year. Our various lavender/herbal teas sold very well, and our Herbes De Provence were also enjoyed by many. This season we'll include those again and hope to harvest many additional herbs to combine with our lavender like Bouquet Garni for cooking, some great herb mixes that we regularly use in our pet chickens' coop, and our terrific Lavender Mist Spray and Herbal Bug Spray.

So far our bees are having a great time with all the flowering plants and trees, and our harvest should be good. Our APPLEMINT HONEY will hopefully be available again between Memorial Day and Labor Day, so we're looking forward to that as always. NATIONAL POLLINATOR WEEK is June 15-21 this year and we'll try to offer as many educational bee programs as we can, so follow us on Facebook for these locations.

January 22, 2015

It’s early to tell, but so far our bees seem to be doing fine. They are wrapped up in black tar paper for warmth, and they seem to have plenty of honey left to eat. Here’s hoping that between now and Spring we won’t have crazy extremes of weather.

The last of the diseased lavender plants has been removed from our fields. Hopefully we’ll have cover crops planted there in Spring. We’re continuing to strategize against the fungal infections we’ve suffered, and will only be planting about 60 new plants this year. If we have Cut Your Own Lavender for 2015 it will be limited, so watch this site and our Facebook page for information in May.

More broom corn will be planted, and a trial of Indian corn as well. I’m hoping to use them for Fall decorations.

All of our herbal products did well last season so I’ve just completed a seed order for double what we planted last year. We will have some new herbal combinations for sale and may also be able to offer Cut Your Own Herbs with the Lavender as well. Stay tuned…