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! 

Sometimes I have no words when it comes to these beautiful purple plants. Harvest time is my favorite season here on the lavender farm, and its not hard to see why. 

Hope you all have a relaxing day! Happy Monday!

“There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.” 

― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel.

It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful.

And sometimes it is enough.” 

― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“I love lavender—both the color and the smell. And the sound (be quiet so you can hear it).” 

― Jarod Kintz, Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

‘As Rosemary is to the Spirit, so Lavender is to the Soul.‘

–  Anonymous

here’s your sweet lavender

sixteen sprigs a penny

that you’ll find my ladies

will smell as sweet as any"

Lavender Sellers’s Cry, London England CA 1900

"And lavender, whose spikes of azure bloom

shall be, ere-while, in arid bundles bound

to lurk admist the labours of her loom,

and crown her kerchiefs witl mickle rare perfume."

William Shenstone The School Mistress 1742

You may have noticed this blog is a little light on our normal recipe posts this month. That's just because when harvest time rolls around we just have so much fun stuff going on that creating new recipes kind of takes a back burner to the main event here, our lavender. 

He's single ladies!

Hope you are enjoying all these behind the scenes looks at our lavender harvest and farm. We hosted our very first lavender days festival this year and hope to continue the tradition next year as well.