Event

Succulent Terrarium Workshop – October

January 5, 2026 by Adrienne Crombie

Date: Saturday, October 24th

Time: 1pm – 2:30pm

This is a hands-on, beginner friendly workshop that will guide you in creating a personalized open glass Succulent Terrarium.

You will learn to layer substrate to create drainage, arrange succulents and decorate with diﬀerent elements (such as stone,

moss, sand and figurines.)

Everyone will assemble and take home a long lasting, low maintenance miniature garden!

This is a fun, relaxing creative experience that appeals to both teenagers and adults~ bring a friend for a tranquil afternoon on

the farm!

All materials are included and tools are provided.

Ginny Page is an award winning horticulturalist, gardener, florist, educator and proprietor of Gnome Gardens Horticulture. With a BS in Ornamental Horticulture from Rutgers University, Ginny has enjoyed an extensive career in cultivating exotic tropicals with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Her passion for plants is contagious and she can’t wait to bring you into the enchanting world of Terrariums.

The Medicine and Magic of Trees – October

January 6, 2026 by Adrienne Crombie

Date: Saturday, October 24th

Time: 10am – 12noon

Tickets $55/pp

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During this workshop, you will discover how the magical and healing attributes of Oak, Willow, Hawthorn and Pine can support our physical and emotional well being. During this workshop you will hand craft a pine oxymel to support respiratory health during the winter months. We will be blending an antioxidant tea to support circulation and cardiovascular health. You will leave this workshop with additional recipes and wildcrafting tips, giving you the tools to continue connecting with the ways trees can support your mind, body and soul. Our time together will also include a tree identification walk of many more trees on the farm.

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.

Agni Hotra Fire Ceremony – May

March 7, 2021 by Adrienne Crombie

Date: Friday May 24th

Time: 7:oo-8:30 PM

Tickets: $25.

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Agni Hotra is an ancient fire ritual performed to purify the environment, reduce pollution and increase an atmosphere of healing. First found in the Vēdic scriptures, practice of the Fire Ceremony blesses Mother Earth as well as the practitioners. We will be chanting the Maha Mrytunjaya Mantra, a mantra to aid in healing on all levels. This simple yet powerful tool is used around the world with amazing results to help transform lives and heal the planet.

Please dress in layers, as the Fire Ceremony will be held outdoors.

Agni Hotra Fire Ceremony with rose petals

I have been practicing Agni Hotra for about 25 years. At first it was as a participant, adding literal fuel to the literal fire, chanting the appropriate mantras and helping to support the group intention and energy in whatever way I could. I remember the first time I was in India and encountering a group of people who did an agni hotra every day, regardless of where they were. It was a group of about 20 people, of all ethnicities and ages. They were part of a larger organization that vowed to have at least someone lighting this healing fire at all hours of the day, across the entire globe. They kindly invited us to join and it was a spectacular experience. Another trip to India I was honored to be invited to lead an Agni Hotra on a farm where they had been performing Agni Hotras just about every day. They claim their lush fields, healthy livestock and abundant harvest, compared to their neighbors, was a result of this practice. Last year in India I was happily surprised to find that the managers of the retreat center we were in were devoted practitioners of Agni Hotra. The two “fire brothers” as we called them were sent to an ashram at the early age of 10ish to study with a Guru whose main practice was this Vedic Agni Hotra. Their father had stumbled upon the practice when he was in the military in India and it had such a profound effect on him, transforming him from an angry violent person, to a serene and spiritual person, that he sought out this Guru and entrusted his two young sons to the Ashram’s care. We were happy to be able to participate in the twice daily ritual with people who had really studied and devoted their lives to this ritual. I was thrilled to once again stumble upon dedicated practitioners and experience a fire lit by them in the same way as it has been done for more than 5000 years.

I have, weather permitting, been doing Agni Hotra in my small yard in the middle of Frenchtown for some time. I can definitely tell the difference in my yard when I am doing it- the birds come more often and the plants grow steadily. I can tell the difference in myself as well. One of the things I love about this beautiful practice as it allows you to participate on a grand scale- sending healing energy as far as you can conceive of (and beyond), a more personal scale (healing for friends and family) and then also the effects are clearly felt ones own body. Energy channels are cleared, the mind is cleared, your vibration is raised, and if all that wasn’t enough, it smells good.

I hope you can come join us for the fire ceremony. Every voice added helps us to bring just a bit more peace and healing into this world which really needs it. We can join in the energy of the others who care deeply about our earth and those who inhabit it, and add our voices, intentions and fires.

Bonnie Pariser
Yoga Loka

Certified Yoga Therapist

T.R.E. Provider

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.

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!