Lavender Farming: Secrets from a Hard Row Hoed

I love teaching people about the many uses of lavender. I have vended at farmer's markets all around the region since 2002 and even if you didn't buy something you never walked away from my table without a pinch of lavender for your pocket and a small handout loaded with information. "What's lavender good for?" you'd ask. And I'd say "How much time do you have?" I used to bring an extra chair and tell you to have a seat! 

Since self-publishing my book I'm moving more into book signings and presentations. I bring along all my hand-crafted products, maybe even some lavender limeade and lavender infused butter cookies! We can arrange to make a small sachet as souvenir or even do an essential oil distilling demonstration. Presentations can also be geared especially for children.

I want my book in your local library or your local brick & mortar bookstore. Lets schedule a presentation!

Lavender Lori cut her teeth in lavender farming as a share cropper at Ten Spoon Winery in Missoula Montana's Rattlesnake Canyon. It all began after she and a friend toured the Sequim, Washington Lavender Festival in the year 2,000. She was struck by a lavender lightning bolt of inspiration that day. She knew next to nothing about farming lavender, had little money, no land, but was loaded with gumption. Her Ma always said "Look it up!" So she did, and all her life has been an autodidact. 

Before she was Lavender Lori she owned and operated a garden maintenance/design/consulting service, Kinship Gardens. The landscape at Good Food Store is her design and she was the general contractor on the 2004 installation.

She has since moved to farming on her own land in the Mission Valley of Montana and has consulted lavender initiates as near as the neighbor's and as far away as Saudi Arabia.