many culinary plants he grew Logan started a collection of lavender plants. It would have stayed a private collection if it hadn't been for one of our customers that showed us a brochure of a lavender farm in Quebec. We did visit the lavender farm in Quebec and were blown away by the beauty of seeing lavender growing in fields in mass. It would have again stayed a happy memory if it had not been for a series of unfortunate events that left our family in a financially difficult situation. With the 2008 market crash my husband, who was working off the farm and bringing in the majority of income, found himself out of work. Not wanting to lose the farm and our way of life, we decided to find a way to increase the revenue the farm was generating. It seemed everything we had tried so far brought in some money but not enough to carry us all year. The organic culinary nursery "Grow Tasty" was very specialized and was great for the spring sale. The organic vegetable sale was great for summer and fall sales. Then we thought that the lavender plants, lavender fields and the value-added products that we make could round out our year. It was a leap of faith, we didn't have a plan B. 

Although the demand for time to maintain 4 acres of lavender was so high that we had to let go of the vegetable production and slowly had to let go of the herb business as well and depend solely on the lavender to provide our family income.

How did you get started?

It got started by doing a lot of research, we thankfully already knew a lot about growing plants although growing fields of lavender in Canada can be a challenge since being a semi-evergreen the lavender plant suffer greatly from wind desiccation (drying out) in late winter and early spring. We not only researched the best way to grow lavender, but also how to distill it, and I spent months researching formulas for my line of body care products and then after our first product sales haveing to rethink it all and enlist the knowledge of a chemist to formulate a product with a longer self-life but still retaining as many of the organic or Eco-certified oils and botanicals that I wanted in my products. Healthy ingredients, and health and wellness in general, are a way of life for our family.

How many years have you been open?

We opened to the public on July 1st, 2013. Three years after the plant where planted. It goes back further than that, in 2009 I started propagating trays and trays of lavender cuttings taken from our mother bed. My son and I propagated over 10,000 plants. We filled one of our, at the time four greenhouses, just with lavender babies and in August of 2010 the fields where planted.