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Adrienne Crombie

Blue Oyster Mushroom Cultivation Workshop – Sept

January 8, 2026 by Adrienne Crombie

Date:

Saturday, September 26th

Time: 1pm – 3pm

Tickets $85

Mushroom Cultivation

$85 – Share the Abundance – Paying full price helps to subsidize and support those that may not have the means at this time.

$75- Essential – Paying this price is in line with my financial integrity. Please use coupon code FUNGI10

$65 – Basic – Paying this price is what feels right for me and my financial situation. Please use coupon code FUNGI20

 

Are you interested in learning more about mushrooms? Join mushroom cultivator and forager Kacy Binz in a fun and hands-on mushroom cultivation workshop! Kacy will walk you through each step of the growing process, from mycelium to mushroom. She will lead the group in an inoculation of Blue Oyster Mushrooms, and you will leave with your own at home mushroom growing kit! You will also learn about the phenomenal health benefits of mushrooms as well as some tasty recipes to introduce wild mushrooms more into your diet. She will also have some tips and advice for those interested in wild foraging.

Mushroom Growing Kit

 

Mushroom snacks and tea will be provided, as well as print outs of all the information. 

Savory Wild Mushrooms served at workshop!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kacy Binz, farmer & mushroom cultivator

Kacy has experience growing a wide variety of delectable mushrooms, such as lions mane, oysters, piopinno, white beech, chestnut, nameko and more.  She also enjoys foraging for wild mushrooms and plants, as well as making tea blends and tinctures. Her goal is to inspire people to incorporate more mushrooms into their diet, to become more connected with nature and our source of food, and to make delicious and creative recipes using mushrooms!

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Herb Talk: Golden Rod – October

January 7, 2026 by Adrienne Crombie

Day: Saturday, October 10th

Time: 11:30 – 12:30

$25/pp

Herb Talk

Join us on the land for an hour and talk about beautiful magical Golden Rod, Solidago. We will walk, talk and sit while we have an in-depth discussion on the medicine and magic of Golden Rod. This talk includes plant identification, growing and harvesting tips, Golden Rod distribution, history and astrology as well as organ system affinities and herbal actions and energetics. You will also learn about medicinal preparations, contraindications and safety. 

 

You will leave with an herbal monograph and depending on her growing season some Golden Rod you work with at home. 

April Morecraft, herbalist
April Morecraft, herbalist

 

April is a mother, teacher, gardener, folk herbalist and creator of Oak Root Herbals. She began her formal studies with a farm based herbal foundations course with Bluestem Botanicals followed by a 3 year apprenticeship with Robin Rose Bennet of Wise Woman Ways. April is currently continuing her plant path with online studies at The School of Evolutionary Herbalism and North West School of Aromatic Medicine.

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

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May PreOrder – Hidcote Blue Lavender Plant

February 3, 2023 by Adrienne Crombie

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.

Filed Under: Lavender Plants

Inspire U2 Think

April 14, 2022 by Adrienne Crombie

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.

 

 

Filed Under: Event, Partners

Making Dreams Come True

March 10, 2022 by Adrienne Crombie

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!

Tipi Frame
Lodge poles set in place.
Covering the tipi
Covering the tipi.
tipi at night
Tipi illuminated at night.
Magic Circle
Kelly Kinney presiding at her Women’s New Moon Circle in the tipi.
baby goats
Kids Goat Yoga party in the tipi.

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