SEVENTH ANNUAL LAVENDER FARM TOUR
July 11 & 12, 2009
Activities include
children’s crafts, U-pick lavender,
lavender wand-making and many
lectures & demonstrations, including
topics such as lavender cultivation,
harvesting and drying lavender, cooking
with lavender, and the many uses of
lavender in the home. Local artists will
display and sell their artwork, food
booths can provide you with a snack, or
bring your own picnic lunch, and enjoy
beautiful gardens, patios and the heady
fragrance of lavender! Sachets, lavender
plants and other lavender related
products will be available for sale.
Some rave reviews for
the 2008 Lavender Farm Tour:
"The Lavender Farm Tour celebrates our natural
bounty and beauty. What a joy for our community
to have a visionary team of lavender growers who
have created such a wonderful festival."
~ Sylvia & Ross at DIG
The Seattle Post Intelligencer ~ July
13, 2006
The Seattle Times ~ July 19, 2008
The Vashon Beachcomber ~ July 16, 2008
The Vashon Beachcomber ~ July 23, 2008
Editorial, The Beachcomber, July 16
Lavender’s sweet scent
Like the calm that often follows a storm, the Lavender Festival is the perfect antidote to the Strawberry Festival’s throngs of people. It’s quiet. It’s about flowers. It’s homegrown and oh-so-Vashon.
This is not to say the Strawberry Festival isn’t a quintessential Vashon event. It is; and this year, it was loads of fun. But the crowds and energy are not for everyone. And many of those souls just might enjoy what three Vashon lavender farms offer up each year — a stroll through beautiful gardens awash with the sweet scent of lavender.
And this year is particularly special because the farms — cooperating by way of their shared organization, the Vashon Island Lavender Growers Association — have pooled their resources to provide a free shuttle to their far-flung farms.
So imagine this, all you traffic-weary Islanders: Catch the shuttle Saturday morning in town. Sit back and watch the scenery. Get delivered up to a lavender farm where lemonade will be served, music might be playing and children will no doubt be frolicking, Make a lavender wand to tuck in a drawer. Learn a thing or two about how to grow this aromatic delight. Then climb back onto the shuttle and visit another scent-drenched expanse of pastoral beauty.
Bring a book. Relax. And enjoy another facet of life on our beautiful Island.
See what's in
store!
Click on the Farms' schedules of
events below.
NEW!
Forget driving! Ride the Lavender Bus!
North Bus Schedule
South Bus Schedule
NEW!
Forget driving! Ride the Lavender Bus!
2008 Fox Farm
Schedule
2008 Lavender Hill Farm
Schedule
2008 Lavender
Sisters
Schedule
2008 Map to Farms
2008
Lavender Tour Brochure
2008 Lavender Celebration Poster
Thank you to
our generous sponsors
