An experience you'll come back to.
Hidcote Blue Lavender Plant
English lavender, used for culinary, crafts and floral display.
Prefers full sun and well-drained, gravelly soil. Draught resistant, do not over-water.
*PreOrder for Farm Pick Up May 6th through May 14th NO SHIPPING.
DETAILS
Genus: Lavandula
Species: angustifolia
Variety: Hidcote Blue
Plant container: half gallon.
Zone: 5-9
Spread: 24 in.
Color: Blue violet
Bloom time: Early Spring, second bloom in Fall.
Deer resistant. Attracts butterflies and beneficial insects.
Date: Sunday, May 14th
Time: 1 – 3pm
$80/pp
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!
Date: Saturday, May 20th
Time: 1pm – 3pm
$45/pp
Come explore the beautiful benefits of the “weed” plants making their spring debut in the fields of Mad Lavender. During this two hour workshop you will get to know the many benefits that chickweed, plantain, dandelion, and violet have to offer. Together, we will identify, harvest and discover the nutritional and medicinal properties of these generous plants. In addition to tasting a variety of recipes that include these abundant and fun edibles, you will leave with the knowledge of working with the spring plants to create your own syrups, oils, vinegars, and more! During this class you will make an infused vinegar to use as a detoxifying tonic.
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.
DATES:
Friday, May 19th (New Moon), 6:00 -7:30pm
Wed., July 19th (New Moon),6:00 -7:30pm
Wed., Aug 16th (New Moon), 6:00 -7:30pm
Thur., Sept. 14th (New Moon), 6:00 -7:30pm
Fri., Sept 29th (Full Moon), 7:30 – 9:00pm
Fri., Oct. 13th (New Moon), 7:30 – 9:00pm
Fri., Oct. 27th (Full Moon), 7:30 – 9:00pm
“Divination, moving meditation, introspection & a little body magic. A unique experience of the self, through the self, to the self.”
Practicing yoga and reading tarot cards are two ways that many people learn to tune in, reflect, and strengthen their connection to themselves and the world around them.
In this Yoga & Tarot workshop on Mad Lavender Farm, students will be guided through a yoga practice, with Jenn of Wildflower Yoga, consisting of Moon Salutations – the ancient yoga sequence designed to quiet the mind and calm the body while drawing on the feminine energy of the moon. It includes low-impact poses that activate the nervous system for rest, digestion into the new and opening of the hips.
Afterwards you will learn the themes and lessons of the Tarot cards with Adrienne from Mad Lavender Farm and Jenn. Together they will take you through a journaling activity based on intention settings for the New or Full Moon while also having your Tarot card read to further your manifestations for a grounded, deeper understanding of our minds and the Universe at large.
This workshop is designed to be engaging for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. Expect a combination of journaling, basic and restorative yoga poses, and a single card spread tarot reading for yourself.
Tickets are available through Wildflower Yoga Collective
Adrienne is an artist, lavender farmer, Tarot reader, kombucha maker, goat moma and co-owner of Mad Lavender Farm. Adrienne wears many hats on the farm, including the Mad Hat and continues to paint murals on any available surface.
Date: Saturday, June 10th
Time: 1pm – 3pm
$50/pp
Did you know that taking a dropper of sage tincture before bed lessens night sweats? Or that it can aid bleeding gums and soothe a sore throat? Come explore all the benefits Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme want to share with us! These glorious culinary herbs not only add to our kitchen creations but they deliver power plant medicine to our mind and body. During this workshop you will harvest and create a sage tincture and a rosemary hair tonic. You will learn how to infuse oils for culinary and topical uses. You will leave with a wealth of recipes to continue exploring in your own kitchen. Join us for a fun and aromatic afternoon.
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.