Lavender Harvest

June 13, 2009 Please Come To Help Celebrate Our Fourth Annual Lavender Harvest!

Saturday, June 13 and Sunday, June 14. 9:00 am to 8:30 pm

Admission is $5.00. Neighbors and CSA members are invited without cost.

To those who missed our harvest last year, please come and see what all the excitement is about!

Please bring your own shears or clippers for cutting, sunscreen, bug spray, hat, and gardening clothes. If you have an umbrella or other shading device, you might want to bring that too, although we will have plenty of places available to get out of the sun! Bring your own picnic lunch either day, or enjoy the catered barbeque on Saturday. Bring your fishing pole if you'd like to fish in our pond. We have a gift shop featuring farm products and collectibles for your interest, including locally produced honey from our lavender field.

If you’re not into gardening/harvesting work but would like to be a part of the festivities, you are also welcome! There will be plenty of chairs and places where you can comfortably view all the activity going on in the lavender field. Feel free to draw, photograph, or paint the festivities, or bring an instrument to entertain us. if you’d like to fish in the pond or just hang out, we’d love to have you.

On Saturday, Tommy Estridge will provide barbeque for us around 11:30 am (or whenever you are ready to eat), and lunch will likely be available for several hours.

Everyone who helps with the harvest can take home a bouquet of lavender flowers!

RSVP (336) 581-3916 or countrymouse@rtmc.net

Directions to the farm: Take US 1 South from Raleigh to the Asheboro turnoff on Hwy 42. Turn right and drive west toward Asheboro, about 20+ miles. Cross the Deep River, and continue on Hwy 42 until you reach our turnoff. Toward the end of your trip you will begin to see signs for the Southern Supreme Fruitcake Company. Pass the last fruitcake sign (which points to the right), and continue on Hwy 42 for a few miles. You will soon see an intersection sign (the only one you’ll see). At that intersection, you’ll see Ronald Scott Road on the right, Calvin Phillips Road on the left. Turn left on Calvin Phillips Rd, take the first right on Clarence Phillips Rd, and continue a short distance until you see our white mailbox with the blue Bluebird Hill flag sign on your left. Follow the drive across the field and over a dry creek to the farm.