Move in. Breathe deeply. Repeat.
Seeing purple
In addition to being a go-to location for u-pick berries, Graysmarsh Farms has a hillside of lavender and sells lavender products. Visitors can walk through the fields to pick their lavender. It’s looking very good this week.
Although I’ve featured several larger farms this week, Sequim also has many smaller operations that welcome visitors during our July Lavender Faire and Festival. The Lavender Connection sells a variety of u-pick lavenders and products.
If you plan to come, visit the Sequim Tourism website for maps and event schedules.
Did someone say “lavender?”
Olympic Lavender Farm was sold to new owners last year and if I’m not mistaken it also has a new sign. The owners have two other lavender growing sites in the Dungeness area in addition to this five acre plot.
The Olympic Lavender farm is 19 years old and plans are afoot to plant thousands of additional lavender plants here this fall. Like many of our other farms, Olympic Lavender has a farm store and a variety of lavender products created with their organic blossoms.
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Seen at the Port Townsend Gallery.
Lavender time
Sequim’s annual Lavender Weekend begins this Friday and I looked around one of my favorite farms, Jardin du Soleil, last week. This was one of the first operations I visited before I moved to Sequim and I was taken by the beauty of the fields and the gorgeous setting. New owners took over the 10-acre farm a few years ago and the lavender looks great this year.
The fields here are beautifully laid out and the landscaping compliments it nicely. During the Lavender Weekend crafts and foods are sold at many of the lavender farms and farmers offer lavender-related demonstrations. Jardin du Soleil will demonstrate lavender distilling.
Like many other lavender growers Jardin du Soleil sells their lavender products, which are organic.
Mount Baker shows the tip of its peak in the distance in this shot.
Sunday barn
Here’s a barn that’s in somewhat better condition than the one I showed you yesterday. That’s lavender you see in the foreground and I must say that it’s looking good around here these days. I’ll show you more lavender in the coming days.
The dead barn
I first posted the shot above in September 2012. By December 2012 more of the roof had collapsed and it wasn’t looking good.
For a long time, driving onto the freeway below the hilltop where this barn has stood, it was possible to see the remaining structure. A while back I realized I hadn’t seen it for a while. I drove to where I now know it stood and took the shot above. Not much left standing now. I’m truly sorry to see it go.