Visiting a Lavender Farm and More!

Hello Everyone, 

Lavender fever has hit Blog Land this past week. I have enjoyed the beautiful posts about the amazing Lavender plant, and I've had a love affair with lavender for many years.  This year I was blessed to visit another beautiful Lavender farm to celebrate a very special day. On July 17, 2013, my Sweetheart and I celebrated our 53rd Wedding Anniversary. We stayed home as usual and enjoyed our traditional Steak and Lobster dinner. Being married for a long...time and being retired. I love to spend together, and save the gifts for another occasion. So I planned a road trip for the next day to a beautiful spot in Northern California, called Mt Shasta Lavender Farms. 

Sweetheart and I left our house in the late morning and drove to the Mt Shasta Lavender Farms, located twenty minutes north of Mt Shasta City, California, on a 3500 ft. sunny slope, growing lavender for oil, ornamentation, and culinary use.

A beautiful view of the Lavender field, the majestic view of Mt Shasta and a beautiful french provence fountain was the setting to give our day a wonderful beginning. 

The most stunning, unadulterated view of Mt Shasta was a sight to see.

I wore my boots and took off into the lavender fields. I walked the 90 ft. diameter Lavender Labyrinth and viewed the beautiful valley below.

I meandered in the fields inhaling the clipped lavender sprigs of the 20-acre farm and enjoyed the magnificent views. 

The young ladies were working in the fields using a small sickle to harvest the lavender.

The small sickle needs sharping for easy clean cutting. I don't think I'm going to be using a sickle real soon. 

A beautiful terrace to drink lavender lemonade and enjoy more beautiful views.

Check out the fabulous Lavender Shop and the beautiful blue doors. 

So French Provence!

Please come inside and look around.  Beautiful bunches of Lavender.
You pick Lavender  $4/100 stems.

sachets

This lavender is sold to use for crafts.

A beautiful bouquet of Lavender. 

A basket of sachets and the quintessential lavender wand.

This is a beautiful way to use lavender. I'm sure I will be making these darling coat hanger covers soon.

Special lavender is harvested for culinary use.  

The Mt Shasta Lavender Farms is in the high desert and the temp was around 95 degrees in the afternoon. After walking and shopping Sweetheart and I went up to the tables under the trees and had our  picnic lunch of: Salami slices, cheese, crackers, potato chips, ice cold watermelon and ice cold water from the ice chest. 

I asked the owners permission to photograph their beautiful property.
I had a fabulous day...
I wanted to share my love of lavender.
I usually have a lavender post once a year. If you are new here or would like to look again at these old posts. Click Here for Purple-Reign July 2012

I love Lavender
This post shows you what 'One Lavender Plant' can produce.
It's amazing
Click Here  'I Love Lavender' June  2011

I made over 200 sachets for favors. Thanks to my granddaughters we made them in a week. Click Here for '200 Lavender Sachets' August 2010.

Something for everyone!
~Lemon Loaf with Lavender~
Click Here for cooking with lavender. September 2012
Printable recipe

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I hope you enjoyed my trip to a beautiful lavender farm and more.
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Tuscan Heights Lavender Gardens

On June 26th 2010 was the Tuscan Heights 5th Annual Lavender Gardens Festival. click Here. 

A group of friends and I decided to go up to the festival and purchase several bundles of Lavender to use as table decorations for an  upcoming event.  We enjoyed ourselves sooo...much. The weather was perfect.  The downside was the Lavender was two weeks late in blooming.  We would have loved to roam in the fields and picked our own Lavender to take home, but the Lavender we purchased was already dried and easy to manage on the shuttle they provided for transportation to the farm.

      As you can see the Lavender is just in the bud stage.

They had crafting.  A group of interested visitors were making Lavender wands.  The wand is made from fresh Lavender.  The ribbon is usually weaved over and under each of the twenty stems.  This lady was being very creative and weaving the ribbon over and under every two stems.  (Of course it was her very first experience with Lavender wand making).

Next to the crafting tables was the steam distiller. 

Fresh Lavender is put into the steam distiller and pure essential Lavender oil is extracted from the plants.  Can you see the Lavender wand making craft going on in the background?

This building is the nursery for the propagation of new plants.

Beautiful baskets of bundles of Lavender.

Bundles of Lavender Fire sticks. Great to throw in the grill.  The gourmet smoke bundles bring a whole new taste to your cooking.

I love this purse.

Aromatherapy-Bath & Body-Home Essentials-Gifts

A Great Place to spend an Afternoon.

Thank you for joining me on my trip to a Lavender Farm.

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xoxo