I recently saw some buzz on my social media about a local lavender farm. They have an amazing eye catching purple barn and a few acres of lavender fields. Admission is free, but you have to pay to pick a bouquet of lavender and they have a lovely farm shop with some goodies.
We first tried to go to the lavender farm on a random Tuesday, only to discover a few minutes before leaving that they are not open on Tuesdays (only Thursdays-Sunday). So we tried to go again on a Saturday, but I did not enter the correct address into my GPS and I went to the wrong lavender farm. The one that I did go to didn’t even have lavender fields, it was basically a farm stand selling lavender. As I was an hour away from the one that I wanted to go to and it was getting close to closing time, we unfortunately didn’t make it.
((The correct farm is: Sunset Ridge Lavender Farm located at 6360 Fowler Road Enon, Ohio 45323. Unfortunately, by the time this blog post goes live, they will be closed for the season, but it is for sure something to add to your “bucket list” for next summer if you live in or visit this area!))
Third time was the charm, although we cut it close to closing time when we visited and didn’t have time to go into the farm store or sit and just breathe in the lavender. We basically parked, took pictures, avoided all the bees, took some more pictures, tried to not to get the rear ends of anyone else in our pictures (there was a lot of bending over to smell the lavender haha) and then booked it back to the parking lot. Still, it was so fun to see this beautiful farm and get some pictures.
It was a beautiful day for a trip to the lavender farm!
Side note- I am noticing more and more that agritourism (basically tourism to farm attractions) is becoming really big. This is fascinating to me as I live on a homestead and can’t even fathom getting it all the way to the point where someone would pay to visit. But farming itself is hard work and rarely turns a profit, so this boom in agritourism seems really beneficial to farmers. However, on the other hand it seems like when people FLOCK to these farm/nature sights it can really take away from the feel of the farm. Have you noticed this or have any thoughts on the matter?