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Willow Pond Farm Announces Dates For The 2008
Pennsylvania Lavender Festival
The 2008 Pennsylvania Lavender Festival will be held June 13-15 2008 at Willow Pond Farm in Fairfield, PA, ten minutes west of historic Gettysburg and 90 minutes from Washington, DC.
The only such event in the eastern U.S., the Festival offers myriad sensory delights with three acres of lavender in bloom. Participants are encouraged to enjoy Willow Pond Farm’s lavender fields and herb demonstration gardens, attend lectures and workshops by internationally acclaimed experts, and shop at the “Lavender Tent” and at the dozen juried outside vendors.
The keynote speakers will be Susan Belsinger and Tina Marie Wilcox, co-authors of The Creative Herbal Home. Susan is a prolific writer and contributing editor of “The Herb Companion.” Tina Marie is the head gardener at the Ozark Folk Center Heritage Herb Garden and President of The International Herb Association.
Tom and Madeline Wajda, owners of Willow Pond Farm and the founders of the Festival, will speak speak on growing, harvesting, and cooking with lavender.
Dr. Arlene Bobonich will lecture on the aromatheraputic effect of lavender.
Cut your own lavender from the farm’s three-acre field and start your own lavender bed by purchasing some of the 100 certified organic varieties propagated at Willow Pond Farm including three –‘Madeline Marie’. ‘Rebecca Kay’, and ‘Two Amys’—developed at the Farm.
Admission is $5.00; children 12 and under attend for free. Please no dogs. Free parking and free shuttle service.
Herbal picnic fare (prepared by Chef Joe Renfroe of the York Culinary Institute) will be available for purchase or you can bring your own lunch.
Advance Sale Ticket Packages are Now Available
Our advance sales ticket package is good for festival admission, a picnic lunch of a sandwich or salad, chips, lavender cookies or brownies. and a drink, a $5.00 bunch of cut-your-own lavender, and a five percent discount on all purchases from the Willow Pond Farm shop, greenhouse, and lavender tent. All that for only $15.00!
Click here to order your tickets now. We'll send them out the same day.
Orders must be placed by June 6 and are non-refundable. Discounts do not apply to outside vendors.
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