Adrienne Crombie

Valentine’s Paint Nibble & Sip – February

January 10, 2023 by Adrienne Crombie Leave a Comment

Date: Saturday, February 11th

Time: 1pm to 3pm

Tickets: $65/pp

Venue: Nourish To Heal

Express your love of lavender with your own hand-painted pair of flutes. Learn step by step how to paint this simple but elegant lavender motif on a pair of stemmed glassware. We will be nibbling savory tidbits and sipping some bubbly as we paint.

Nourish To Heal has partnered with Mad Lavender Farm for this very special event, held at the sparkling new Nourish To Heal event space located at 10 Leigh Street in Clinton, NJ. Food and drink will be supplied by your hosts Nicole & Chef Anthony. Adrienne of Mad Lavender Farm will be your art instructor. All materials are supplied. Just bring your creativity and your appetite. Take home two hand-painted flutes, dishwasher safe!

Gluten free and/or vegan? We’ve got you covered! Allergic to alcohol? No worries, we’ve got you covered there, too.

If you need to stock up on some lavender goodies, please visit our online shop. Your order will be packed and ready for you to pick up at our workshop event.
Please note that there are no refunds after one week prior to the event.

Nourish To Heal event space in Clinton NJ

Heart Health Workshop – February

January 9, 2023 by Adrienne Crombie Leave a Comment

Day: Sunday, February 12th

Time: 1pm – 3pm

$35/pp

HeartHealth

During this workshop we will be exploring how Hawthorn, Rose and Passion Flower can support the physical and emotional well being of the heart. We will discuss how working with these herbal allies can strengthen our circulatory system, as well as how they can help us find joy and strength in times of grief and disappointment. In this workshop you will make a heart health tincture or vinegar as well as a tea blend. You will leave with several DIY recipes to prepare your open remedies and rituals at home.

In celebration of LOVE, you will leave with a sample product hand crafted from my heart to yours.

Herbal tea and lavender shortbread cookies will be served, naturally!

April Morecraft is a mother, teacher, gardener, and creator of a home based, small batch herb business called Oak Root Herbals. She began her studies 4 years ago by taking a farm based herbal foundations course with Linda Shanahan of Bluestem Botanicals. April has just completed a 3-year apprenticeship with herbalist, author and green witch, Robin Rose Bennet of Wise Woman Ways and is currently studying herbal astrology online with Sajah Poham of The School of Evolutionary Herbalism.

She looks forward to sharing plant medicine and magic with you.

Mother’s Day Silk Bandana Workshop – May

January 8, 2023 by Adrienne Crombie Leave a Comment

Date: Sunday, May 14th

Time: 1 – 3pm

$80/pp

SilkBandana

Join us on the farm with Rebecca Kelly to bundle dye a luxurious silk charmeuse bandana. We will use flowers, kitchen produce and herbs to dye the silk! Your scarf will make a gorgeous present for you or a loved one!
We will sip lavender lemonade and munch on divine lavender shortbread cookies as our fabric brews!
Participants will forest bathe and forage on the farm for materials for your own personal future dye experiments.
Resources and bibliography will be shared to all participants.
Light rain, please bring umbrellas and rain gear. We will reschedule if there are heavy rains.
Ages 16 – Adult. This is a terrific workshop for family members to enjoy together!

Rebecca Kelly is a curator, storyteller, natural dyer, book and textile artist and weaves her art forms together to make new forms like innovative book arts, embroidered, knitted and crocheted artwork and natural ink paintings. Her textile work was featured in the 2021 Hunterdon Art Museum Member Exhibition. She is a teaching artist at Lehigh University Art Galleries and Young Audiences. Rebecca curated the award-winning Bucks County Community Artmobile, transFORMations: Art Made from Recycled and Reused Materials which was viewed by over 40,000 individuals! Rebecca recently moved to Bucks County from East Harlem NY, where she pursued natural dye in depth at the Textile Art Center and the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. When not teaching, Rebecca is happily foraging on the towpath with her four grandchildren!

Inspire U2 Think

April 14, 2022 by Adrienne Crombie Leave a Comment

It’s my pleasure to introduce you to Sandy Castelleni, the remarkable woman behind “InspireU2Think“, a Hunterdon County based business that is modeled with the idea of giving back. She started her line producing non-toxic soy based candles and has expanded it to include body balms and roll-ons, distributed at shops throughout Somerset, Hunterdon and Union counties.

When we were starting Mad Lavender Farm, I was on the lookout for local artisans and vendors to partner with to make products from our lavender to start to stock the shelves of our Tiny Shop. I spied Sandy’s candles at gift shops and feed stores and I loved her product right away. They were elegant in their simplicity, small batch, homemade and the label indicated that from every sale a percentage was donated to a charitable organization. I contacted Sandy and she met with me to decide upon our product line and designed labels unique to Mad Lavender Farm. Our chosen non-profit is the Sierra Club, to support the environment and our sales have generated about $400 annually to that end.

Sandy’s intention, when she started her business, what to spread a little more light in the world. We love her vision and her product and are so proud to partner with her to spread a little more light AND lavender in the world.

Making Dreams Come True

March 10, 2022 by Adrienne Crombie Leave a Comment

Every year since we started growing lavender in 2014 we have visioned and prepared for a new installation on the farm. In 2018 our dream of erecting a tipi came true. We ordered the lodge poles and canvas for a 26 foot tipi from Nomadic Tipi Makers in Oregon. We leveled the ground and built a wood platform to receive it, sealed the 30 foot lodge poles with 3 coats of turpentine and linseed oil, viewed the instructional video countless times and organized a tipi raising party to raise it and wrap it. Voilá, we had a magnificent tipi. It was a long overdue gift to my inner child who always wondered what it would be like to be inside this wonderful cone shaped space that was home to the original people.

This month, March 2022, we dismantled our beloved tipi. The combination of wind, rain and mold has taken it’s toll and it is time to turn a new page. Our hearts are sore and we know so many of you grieve with us. We’d like to share with you some precious memories and photos that capture those moments.. Over the years our tipi has sheltered our goat yoga parties, picnics and workshops from summer rain. Kirt & Laura of Creative Frequencies (now permanently based in Hawaii) blessed us with otherworldly sound healing sessions in the tipi. Kelly Kinney gifted us with a Women’s New Moon Circle that was just magical.

Some folks go on vacation. We invested in a magical experience right here on our farm.

Next chapter in our Mad Lavender odyssey is our vision for a Green Witches Garden that will be planted in the 26 foot circle footprint that was our tipi, replete with medicinal herbs, a pond and a waterfall.

And so, the journey continues.

More to come!