Up until now, we were unsure about having the public to our property. However, now with the idea of expansion firmer and what we can actually do here we are thinking of having a Lavender Festival Weekends in future seasons. These will not be regular business hours per se, but more of special events in future growing seasons.
I am working full-time on the farm and creating all our products, filling orders and doing all the floral design. I am a busy lady. My hubby has a full-time job! My husband and I and our adult sons work the fields. Sometimes it’s a bit juggling it all especially in May-Sept growing and planting season. It can be a challenge to keep up with the fields, weeding, and planting and pruning and the orders. I guess that’s a good problem to have, right?
Floral design makes up probably well over half of our business. As such, we have decided to concentrate on expanding our cutting flower field this year. We plan to dry much of what we cut for our dried bouquets and designs. We have about 300 lavender plants in multiple varieties we have planted over the past two seasons. Most of the planting is coming on it’s third growing season so this means it’s at maturity and the plants produce much more lavender. Last year we got a lot more lavender than I anticipated and hopefully if all goes well we will have full harvest this year. As such, we decided to focus on expanding the wildflower fields for the Monarch Waystation which was registered Nationally last year. We also plan to start planting other things I use in my designs such as peonies, yarrow, gomphrena, blue thistle, gypsophilia (babies breath), and roses. We are also working on making six 8×4 raised beds. Some will hold flowers, but others will be vegetables. We will be planting a berry patch as well. So we have our hands full as usual. If we had as much time (and money?) as I have ideas we’d be probably be working at a much faster pace. However, in reality we undertake projects as we can afford to do so both monetarily and time wise. We have done our farm debt-free, which is an important aspect to us.
Our farm is still a work in progress, but we are happy about how things are progressing. If anyone would like a tour we can see about doing an appointment only showing while we work on the fields this summer especially for anyone local in the Monroe area who is interested in the lavender farm down the street!
Other News: The Vintage Market at 110 Sycamore St in Wyandotte is having a 1 year anniversary bash on May 11th. We are vendor with this store so please check out our table/area at the store. They have lots of fun events planned for the day see below.
DATE: Saturday, May 11, 2019 at 4 PM – 9 PM
“Our party will include an amazing pop-up Market! Sycamore will be closed to host 50+ Vintage Market vendors for even MORE amazing shopping!! Free birthday cake and bubbly to our shoppers (while supplies last). Free gift with purchase to the first 25 shoppers! Live music, free photo booth, shopping, food truck. “
Also please remember Honeycomb Creative, which is located at 415 N. Monroe Street in Monroe Mi. We love this little shop and it’s Hometown for us being just a few miles down the road from us. It’s a new store just having opened in November of 2018! We also have our products in this store and have enjoyed working with them. I love this beautiful little store that is housed in a pretty old vintage home right next to Enchanted Shoes in Historic Downtown Monroe. They also hold classes upstairs as well for different creative projects. I have to say whenever I deliver products I am sorely tempted to buy many things. I particularly am partial to the vintage and antique plate collection. They have furniture, art, and many more treasures (our lavender products as well! ) One thing I will definitely be purchasing from them is their Fusion Paint. We are doing a kitchen cabinet reno this summer on top of our other plans. Honeycomb Creative is one of the few Fusion Paint dealers locally so we have been working with owner Dayna in looking at different color schemes and choices for our project. She is super helpful!
You can check out all things Honeycomb here
MOTHER’S DAY: We have 10% off our gift baskets and gift bags PLUS FREE shipping! We also have a lot of other items on sale that would make great gifts for mom. Go to www.lavenderrosefarms.com and click Etsy Shop. From there on the side bar click “On Sale” for all the items marked down for Mother’s Day.
