Every year after our lavender harvest, our lavender cottage is stuffed full to the brim with - you guessed it - lavender! Each year our crop grows more and more and we almost don't know what to do with all these beautiful purple flowers. After properly drying them we begin shipping out lavender bundles to customers, or we box them up to store them to make our lovely products. We debud the bundles by hand as we use them. Its a very labor intensive project, but it ensures you get the best quality buds when you are do. Now we better get back to work making lavender salt, our jams and jellies, neck wraps, sachets, and more! 

Visit our store HERE and check out all of our neat organic lavender products! 

Harvest week is such a hectic time here on the farm. We only have a small window of time when our lavender has bloomed perfectly to get it all cut, bundled, and hung to dry. We get a lot of requests from people to come join us on harvest day and watch or help with the process, so here's a little insiders peak for those of you with a curious mind. 

Here's what you're aiming for, beautifully bundled lavender. 

We cut all of our lavender by hand. We actually use vintage tools here and they seem to work just as well, if not better than some of our more modern tools. You grasp the lavender by the base and slice. 

Then we individually wrap each bundle with an elastic by hand. 

Its a very time and labor intensive project, but it sure is beautiful.  

After that we hang our lavender to dry which is equally as pretty, and sure smells amazing. I'll cover that in a  post for tomorrow. Have a wonderful relaxing day! 

This week on instagram I had someone ask me if we sold lavender bundles. Do we sell lavender bundles? We have lavender bundles coming out of our ears! Yes. We sell these beautiful little bundles. Come find us at the Salt Lake Farmers Market, or you can contact us via our website or comment on this blog post. We sell them by the single bundle or even by the box. They are great as dried flowers in vases, used to create beautiful lavender wreaths, you can use them to make flower crown headbands, and we often see them used to decorate weddings. Here are some bundles from our harvest day, all dried and hung and waiting for their next assignment. 

Happy Valentines Day Week! We hope that you get to spend this holiday with someone you love. 

Just a reminder that there is still time to order our heavenly smelling lavender bundles for your special someone. Flowers, candles, and chocolates, seems like a pretty perfect Valentines Day to me. 

You can purchase your own bouquet HERE

Hope you all have a "love-ly" week!