LaurenIts Lavender Time! Our lavender is starting to bloom! The hot dry weather we’re having is great for lavender! The variety in the photo is Folgate – a lovely dark blue English lavender that is blooming right now. We’re harvesting this variety this week so we’ll have bundles available in the shop. Melissa is another … Read more
June in our Lavender Field Our lavender is growing and starting to bud as you can see in this picture! Its so exciting to wait and watch for the lavender blooms, we have a few Big Time Blue blossoms already, and Melissa is getting pretty close to blooming here in NorthWest PA now that its … Read more
What a spring we’re having. With the virus and social distancing, its been very difficult, to say the least, to make plans for the lavender farm this summer. Several of our shows have been cancelled this spring and summer. We are moving ahead with planning for a Memorial Day weekend opening, but at this point … Read more
Surprising 2019 turned out to be a successful year on the lavender farm. In the spring, it looked like 2019 would be a bust, the winter and cold wet spring took a heavy toll on our lavender plants. But in June we replaced the plants we lost, and the new babies thrived; we had lavender … Read more
Last weekend (July 26th & 27th) during the annual Georgetown Road 20 mile yard sale, we ran a promotion – anyone that signed up for our newsletter over the weekend would be entered into a drawing for a $25 dollar gift certificate. I’m happy to announce that Karen E. is the winner! Karen you should have an … Read more
For those of us in northwest Pennsylvania (actually the whole great lakes/east coast area) with the record breaking rainfall and cool temps in May, summer was very late getting started this year. Its hard to believe that we’re halfway through summer already, it just started to get hot a couple weeks ago. But here we … Read more
2019 has been a tough year so far for lavender farmers, for all farmers actually. Its been 6-8 weeks since many of us in the lavender community started getting a gut feeling that something wasn’t right with our lavender. Because of our cold, extremely wet spring, lavender wasn’t coming out of winter dormancy when we … Read more
This past weekend (Memorial Weekend 2019) was opening weekend for our farm shop! For the last 2 years Fairlamb Lavender products have been for sale at local craft shows, on our website and on Etsy (www.etsy.com/shop/fairlamblavender). We will continue to sell online and at shows, but we’ve been working hard to open a brick and … Read more
