Event

Elderflower and Yarrow Workshop- July

January 2, 2023 by Adrienne Crombie Leave a Comment

Date: Sunday, July 23rd

Time: 1pm – 3pm

$45/pp

Elderberry and Yarrow bestow us with their lacy blossoms in July. During this workshop we will explore the magic and medicine of Elderflower and Yarrow, visiting the flowers in our garden and harvesting some for our medicine making!

Both blossoms are full of beneficial properties from nourishing our skin, moving fevers, soothing colds and so much more! During this workshop we will spend time in the garden with Elder and Yarrow then to our workshop to create a facial toner as well as a tea blend to take home.

You will leave with additional recipes and ritual work to further explore your connection to Elder and Yarrow.

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.

Shamanic Lucid Dreaming Workshop & Sound Healing / Dream Catcher Tea – August

September 2, 2022 by Adrienne Crombie Leave a Comment

Date: Saturday, August 19th

Time: 1pm – 2:30pm

$45 pp

LucidDreamingWorkshop

Lucid dreaming is where you are aware you are dreaming. You are able to control your dream and make it into anything you wish. You could fly, choose to experience the supernatural, jump high, run at super speed. You could even spend the valuable time healing yourself, practicing something you want to be proficient at in the real world, or relaxing. You may even be able to ask questions of your guides. Just like any skill, it takes training, knowledge and mentorship to fully know how to harness and skillfully execute it.

In this class, Leslee will guide you through the benefits and techniques of achieving a lucid dreaming state. She will teach you how to remember your dreams by connecting our dream world to our waking reality, and ways to increase your chances of having a lucid dream each night.

Our Dream Catcher Tea will be served during this session and you will take a sample of Dream Catcher Tea home with you; grown, harvested and blended here on the farm, to help enhance your dreams.

The workshop will be followed by a Sound Healing session, included in the price.

Please bring a notebook or journal with you.

Sweet dreams!

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.

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!

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.