festivals

lavender harvest festival

Lavender harvest time...

Lavandula's lavender fields look best around Christmas.

We harvest the crop, slowly, right through January.
Early on a sunny morning, harvesters work along the hedges, cutting the long stems with a hand sickle, then hang bunches to dry under our verandah roofs.

Towards the end of the month we winnow the little dried florets off their stems, or pop fresh lavender in the still to distil fragrant lavender water and lavender oil.

 

We like to celebrate bringing in the crop !!

SO come and enjoy our Lavender Harvest Festival
on Sunday January 9th 2011

The harvesters cut the fragrant flowers with a sickle, hang bunches under the roof to dry. Visitors find a place in the shade to enjoy local music, food, wine and cider. They explore aromatherapy or a quiet outdoor massage in the shade. They talk to talented local people about the products on their stalls (mostly Daylesford-made), play petanque or talk with Graham and Bill about chooks. In the cool of the 1860s farmhouse they hear about the Italian-speaking Swiss who built a dairy farm on this site.

It's a chance to relax in the perfumed air.