Last Friday, Jasmine, Austin, and I were at the Green Acres Pick-Your-Own farm in Palisade evaluating the lavender plots to determine if they were ready to harvest to process for their oil. Two ...

You usually see lavender essential oil in its bottle, but you don’t always see how it got there. During the distillation process, lavender is produced into three different products, which doesn’t let ...

SEQUIM — The Sequim Lavender Farmers Association celebrates the culmination of the 2013 lavender growing season with lavender distillation and harvest demonstrations Saturday and Sunday. “Visit five ...

SEATTLE – Long after her final customer walked off the fields every August, Ivy Cheung found herself staring at the deep purple lavender plants that lined her 1-acre farm in serene Fall City, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—Lavender, for many people throughout the West, is simply a decorative bush used in landscape designs. For Palisade peach farmer Ron ...

Lavender frames visitors on Saturday, July 9, at Laurel Lavender Farmin Ferndale. It’s open to the public in July. Julie Shirley The Bellingham Herald Laurel Lavender Farm in Ferndale is a great ...

GRAND JUNCTION — At an early-morning hour when most residents of a suburban neighborhood are focusing on their coffee makers, Claire McCullough is keeping a close eye on her still. Water is simmering ...

We went by the Old First Ward to watch Troy Cloutier make one of Hartman’s signature cocktails, a Lavender Mule. In addition to a history lesson on this this drink from the ’40s (the first invented ...