Lewis River Lavender – Maker of Organic Essential Oils and more.
We are starting a new chapter towards retirement. We have decided to grow lavender on our property for both aesthetic appeal and hopefully generate a little income. Our family organic lavender farm will produce dried flower bundles, essential oils, soaps, lotions and much much more.
We are located in Ridgefield, WA just off the Lewis River. To start, we will be planting a couple acres of different varieties of lavender to produce the different products. The varieties will initially include Grosso, Melissa, and Royal Velvet. Our first planting season will be Spring 2022.
We had originally planned on procuring lavender clippings from another local lavender farm and rooting them our selves over the winter. We had ordered our greenhouse in May of 2021. Due to the recent covid pandemic shipping delays, we did not get our greenhouse till late November and missed the window. This forced us to purchase plants from another wholesale lavender provider to keep to our original plan of planting in spring 2022. This will get us started and we will start rooting our own plants next winter.
The greenhouse turned out better than I imagined. We purchased it from acfgreenhouses.com. The model we selected was the Grow More Greenhouse with an extension. That gave us an overall dimension of approx. 13ft x 20ft. It is constructed of sturdy aluminum beams and some of the thickest polycarbonate available. It took some time to assemble between winter rain storms, but my wife and I got it done. It will be put to great use I am sure.
We plan to start attending the local Saturday markets to get this little venture off the ground. Hope to see you there. We will also have a website up soon, but for now, if you have any interest in any products, please do not hesitate to reach out to us here.