Blue Moon Lavender Farm

Fresh lavender harvest - a great experience. The heady smell, the flowers tacky from the essential oils, the shed full of hanging bundles - yes, summer is here at the Blue Moon Lavender Farm. [Read More]

At the Blue Moon Lavender Farm this Fall, as we are getting ready for our mild winter, gathering the last plums and apples in the orchard, pressing cider, cleaning up and mulching the perennials, we look to our full freezer, jars of fruit and vegetables, apples and pears in boxes, dried fruit and herbs in the pantry, and realize we are ready. Ready for Holidays, for special gift giving, for sharing our gardens and orchards with family and friends. We are ready for early evenings and games of Scrabble®, for silly old movies, for books waiting in stacks on the living room table, but most of all we are ready for a change of seasons.

The change is just around the corner. Our larder full, we are ready for any eventuality. We hope for a mild winter, for sunny days, not much rain, for new discoveries and new ideas to be born and implemented in Spring. We enjoy this slower time on our farm, time to review, recollect and renew.

Every fall all of our 900 lavender plants get a final trim, shaping the plants into half-ball hedgehogs. It's nice, fragrant work during the cool, crisp days of the fall. I use a hedge trimmer, wielding it like a sword, giving each lavender a buzz. The late bees are still working and are not eager to fly off when I'm cutting the stem of their flower. The meandering rows of trimmed, orderly half-balls give the fields a sculptured, corduroy texture.[Read More]