Event

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.

Divination & Story Telling Picnic on Mad Lavender Farm

March 17, 2022 by Adrienne Crombie Leave a Comment

Dates:

Saturday, May 21st

Saturday, August 27th

Time: 10:15am to 3pm

$180 pp

Divination Day

We are elated to offer this very unique event, a Divination & Story Telling Picnic, for the first time on the farm this year.

In the morning, between your arrival at 10:15 and 1pm, you will receive a total of three 15 minute readings: Runes with Leslee, Tarot with Amy Fae and Tarot with Adrienne. While you are waiting for your reading, we will be showing you how to wrap mini smudge sticks with a variety of herbs from the farm for you to take home .
At 1pm we will convene in the Picnic Area to enjoy a magical tale told by Storyteller Rebecca Kelly. Complimentary light fare and lavender lemonade will be served. Gluten free and dairy free options will be provided.
To wrap up the afternoon, ground your experience with a group Sound Healing performed by Leslee Penny.

This event is limited to 8 participants so that we have the opportunity to fully engage and provide everyone with the best experience possible. The age limit is 18 years old and we ask that you do not bring children.

In the event of rain, all the events will be held in sheltered areas on the farm. In that event, an umbrella is advised.

Farm Picnic — We will gather to enjoy complimentary light fare after a morning of divination to hear Storyteller Rebecca Kelly.

Leslee Penny is a shaman practitioner who is certified in a plethora of healing modalities. She has been working with Eastern philosophy for over 35 years, and brings her certifications of breathwork, meditation, martial arts, Tai Chi, hypnosis, life coaching, and sound healing into each of the workshops that she makes, allowing each one to be an enriching experience of the mind, body, and spirit. Her classes have made appearances at various yoga festivals, private healings, clinics, yoga studios, and the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art. Her Tibetan singing bowl/gong healing workshops deliver hypnotically rejuvenating sound. She will transport you to a place of tranquility so your cells can renew in a bath of healing vibration.

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!

Amy Fae is a practicing witch and a natural intuitive who reads the tarot and oracle. She enjoys using her gift to reveal deeper truth and purpose in people’s lives and guide them on their journey.

Adrienne Crombie is an artist, lavender farmer, artist and co-owner of Mad Lavender Farm. Adrienne has been reading and teaching Tarot for 30 years.

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!

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.

Mad Lavender Goat Yoga Team

March 7, 2022 by Adrienne Crombie Leave a Comment

The air is warming a bit, Spring is on the way and pretty soon we’ll be enjoying Goat Yoga again on Mad Lavender Farm. I’d like to introduce you to our incredible team of goat yoga teachers; Lea Ostner, Jenn Stas, Ava Marino and Shannon Keelyn. Goat yoga teachers are a very special breed. They must have a big call to adventure, an unflappable inner calm, a love of goats (naturally) and a sense of mischief to match. Folks of all ages and levels of yoga experience attend our sessions and so our teachers need to be responsive to all their needs. It also takes a big dose of creativity to run a goat yoga session because goats are unpredictable and they don’t always follow the “lesson plan.” In addition to all that, Ava, Shannon and Lea bring their talents in playing sound bowls to produce our Sound Bath Goat Yoga sessions. On the continuum of super chill to crazy fun, Sound Bath Goat Yoga brings it all together. Jenn Stas is the G.O.A.T. at Partner Goat Yoga, possibly the best date you’ll have this summer.

We are so lucky to have these amazing, talented and warm hearted women on our team. It makes all the difference when you are working with people who truly love what they do. Big, big shout out to you all. We are so looking forward to making it happen with you all again in 2022!

Sound Bath Goat Yoga sessions start again in May. If you would like to book a private goat yoga event, please check our website for available dates.

Bachelorette Goat Yoga Party — LOVE pose at a Goat Yoga Bachelorette Party.

English Lavender Wreath Workshop in June

February 1, 2022 by Adrienne Crombie Leave a Comment

At the height of bloom of our English lavender, join Nicole of Spadaflora Botanical Artistry to make a wreath from freshly harvested Hidcote lavender.

As a part of our workshop, you will pick some lavender right out of the field. It takes a LOT of lavender to create this, and so the lion’s share of it will be fresh cut and ready for you to fashion into your wreath. There is nothing like the color and scent of fresh lavender and it will dry beautifully, lasting well into the next year. Nicole will guide you to adhere it properly and distribute it nicely around your 12inch wreath support.

Lavender lemonade and lavender shortbread cookies will be served to nibble and sip.

Be sure to take the time to enjoy a stroll around the farm. It is the most beautiful time of year!

This workshop is limited to 8 attendees. In the event of rain, the workshop will be held in our new renovated Workshop Space.

Date: June 18th

Time: 10am – 12noon

$130 pp

Wreath Workshop

Nicole Spadaflora — Nicole of Spadaflora Botanical Artistry

Nicole Spadafora is a ghost, driving a meat covered skeleton, made from stardust, riding through space; who on a good day fears nothing. She is the proprietor of Spada Flora Botanical Artistry, a design company which is rooted in all things in all things floral & botanical – from designing and implementing native gardens, foraging, farming flowers and herbs to flowering weddings and holy-days.

Her guiding principal is; “There is only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle” Albert Einstein.