Event

The Medicine and Magic of Trees – October

January 6, 2026 by Adrienne Crombie

Date: Saturday, October 10h

Time: 1pm – 3pm

Tickets $55/pp

$45/pp with coupon code TREE by Oct.3rd

In this workshop, you will discover how the magical and medicinal properties of Oak, Willow, Black Walnut and Pine can support our physical and emotional well being. In addition to discussing each tree’s medicinal applications and actions, you will discover ways that tree magic can help ground and secure us. During this workshop you will hand craft two medicines: a White Pine Oxymel and a White Oak tincture.

You will leave this hands on experience with recipes and rituals that will continue to connect you to the ways in which trees can support our mind, body and soul.

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.

Breathe, Reconnect & Transform – October

January 6, 2026 by Adrienne Crombie

Date: Saturday, October 17, 2026

Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Tickets $50/pp

$45 with early sign up discount by Oct 3rd

Please use coupon code BREATH

BreatheTransform

This immersive 2-hour experience is an invitation to reconnect with one of the most powerful tools you already have: your breath.

Through a blend of breath awareness, nervous system education, movement, and guided breathing practices, participants will learn how their breath directly influences the body, emotions, and internal state.

This workshop is not about “doing the breath correctly,” but about learning how to listen to it without judgment.

Participants will explore their breathing in different body positions, observe the movement of the diaphragm and rib cage, and begin to understand their own breathing patterns, where the breath is felt, how it moves, and how it shifts with thoughts, emotions, and awareness.

By developing a deeper awareness of these patterns, participants can begin to consciously transform the way they breathe, regulate, and connect with themselves.

The experience will include:

guided breath awareness practices
exploration of diaphragmatic and nasal breathing
nervous system regulation techniques
somatic movement and grounding exercises
moments of stillness, reflection, and reconnection
You will leave with practical breathing tools, a deeper awareness of your own breathing patterns.
You will take home a guided Breath Awareness booklet to support continued connection, regulation, and self-awareness beyond the workshop.

Kattia Bio — Kattia Lohmann, found of BreathLab and Yoga Studio

Kattia has a background in Physical Therapy and is a yoga and meditation teacher and founder of BreathLab & Yoga Studio, a space where science and soul come together through breathwork, movement, and nervous system awareness.

With a deep passion for mind-body connection, she guides others in reconnecting with themselves through conscious breathing, somatic awareness, and embodied practices that support regulation, grounding, and transformation.

Through her workshops and experiences, Kattia invites people to move beyond the mind, listen to the wisdom of the body, and rediscover the power of the breath as a tool for awareness, healing, and connection. While sharing these practices, she remains a humble student in the school of Earth, continuously learning through breath, movement, nature, and human connection.

Fall Watercolor Workshop – October

January 6, 2025 by Adrienne Crombie

Sunday, October 18th

1pm – 3pm

$55/pp

$45 Early sign up discount by Oct 4th

Coupon Code PUMPKIN

Fall Watercolor

Join us for a watercolor painting workshop with a Fall twist! Come and learn how to paint your own still life with tiny pumpkins and lavender cut fresh from the field. During this two hour workshop taught by Carolyn Juel, you will be given a demonstration on how to utilize different watercolor techniques to create a seasonal watercolor painting that is one of a kind! Caroline will be giving personalized instruction to help you make your masterpiece! At the end of the painting workshop you will be able to take your lavender and pumpkins home! We look forward to working with you seeing what fun we can create!

All materials included. Just bring you!

Herbal tea and cookies will be served. Our workshops are held under our 26 foot Pavilion, sheltered on 3 sides. Please dress in layers to insure your comfort.

artist Carolyn Juel — Carolyn Juel, multi-media artist and entrepreneur

Hi! My name is Caroline and I am the owner and artist of Juel Studios LLC. I work in a variety of mediums including printmaking, painting, and pottery. I love teaching and helping people find their artistic side! Take a class with me and discover what you can make!

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!