Due to circumstances beyond our control the Geoffrey Castle concerts scheduled for August 23rd and 24th at our farm have been cancelled. It’s a shame because Geoff is SUCH a wonderful violinist and showman but it’s something that’s beyond our control.
Geoff Castle will play three mini concerts on both the 23rd and 24th of this month at our farm. He’ll be on stage at the south lawn and will play from noon to 1pm, 2-3pm, and 4-5pm both days. He’s got quite a following in this area so we expect crowds. A good idea would to bring a picnic lunch and your favorite beverages and spend the day listening to one of the worlds premier violinists as he rocks Purple Haze.
We continue to harvest our crop as it becomes ready. All the barns are full and still we cut…Looks like we start distilling this week
Geoff Castle has graciously agreed to return to the farm to do a free concert on August 23rd and 24th. He’ll be on the stage at the south lawn both days at times that are not yet determined but it looks like he’ll play on and off all day, both days. We are so excited to have this very accomplished violinist coming back to Purple Haze. So grab a picnic lunch and join us in three weeks or so. MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!! This guy will rock your world!
I couldn’t resist snapping a pic of this tiny frog perched on our basil plants in our greenhouse. The photo just doesn’t do the golden coloring of this little critter justice but still it’s a cool shot.
It’s that time of year again to fire up the distiller and start making essential oil. Our new distillation plant is s
omething to behold! It’s a propane fired boiler that generates 1.2 million btu’s and steams about 600 gallons of flowers at a time. That’s 10 times more than our previous one and is the biggest distillation unit in the area. The ground literally trembles when we fire it up. We’re already getting calls from other farms about processing their lavenders too so it looks like it will be a very busy 2-3 weeks here huddled around the still. The nice thing about this new unit is that we can tow the retort,(the part of the still that holds the flowers), out into the field and fill it there. Previously, we had to cut the flowers and put them into a truck, haul them back to the area where we were distilling and take them from the truck, placing them into the retort. Now, our labor is exponentially reduced with the larger size and the portability of the unit.