Sunday, 9 August 2015
Long Beach Peninsula Edible Garden Tour
The annual edible garden tour, presented by the Long Beach Grange, is a benefit for local food banks.
Lavender And Farm
“Living sustainably on 3 acres on the Bay.”
This lavender farm and large kitchen garden was also on the tour in 2013.
Allan’s photo
Allan’s photo: looking east from the road
looking west over the lavender field; the big building is for drying and processing.
Allan’s photo
looking south
tour guests and guide (Allan’s photo)
fragrant field
tour host and lavender wand maker (Allan’s photo)
Tours are available on most days, it seems.
making lavender wands
the harvest
lavender wands
lavender cookies and tea
by the lavender products sales shed
We then to the path along the south side of the animal field and the large kitchen garden. There, I saw baby goats on the loose!
They are allowed to wander as they will always come back to their mother.
Hershey and Honey: Allan’s photo
The one with the tiny ears (left) is a Lamancha goat; the ears are not cropped. The long eared one is a Nigerian Dwarf goat.
In the fenced field, grown up goats rest in the shade.
Or bask in the sun.
ducks
Allan’s photo
This is the male goat.
His name is Darling.
looking west
Teresa brought the babies, whom she has known since their birth. (Allan’s photo)
Allan’s photo
Allan’s photo
They have a great interest in the fenced kitchen garden. (Allan’s photo)
corn
I love the rusty fence panels, which is concrete reinforcing grid that we were able to find at Home Depot…after a search all around these parts to find some. It was too big to transport, and we eventually used regular wire grid for our fence (a stronger more symmetrical kind than chicken wire). This would be my favourite fence material if I could have acquired it.
looking east
east side of garden
greenhouse at east end of garden
greenhouse (and the residence, to the right in background)
The door is on the north side.
Garden People
Further east, a huge pole barn and more fenced veg on its south wall
rhubarb in quantity
Allan’s photo
road down the hill to the bay
Teresa and Allan walked down. I decided not to because chunky gravel is hard on the knees.
another fenced area
lower level: another fenced area with fruit trees
This yellow flower down by the bay…
(gumweed)
We IDed it through this article on the lavender wand table…but is the painting upside down? Maybe not, as it seems to grow all floppy like that.
looking up from bayside to the pole building
wild yarrow
Willapa Bay
looking west
looking east. If the Lavender Farm owners also own the tideland, they probably add oysters to their sustainability.
returning to the top of the road
Meanwhile, I had just sat at a picnic table on the east side of the pole barn and enjoyed the view.
Willapa Bay
telephoto with oyster beds
lavender planted along the ridge
buzzing with bees
The three of us walked down the road along the north side of the house, where the owners of the farm were cleaning an enormous tuna. I wondered if they had caught it or if they knew a tuna fisher-person. With goats, ducks, chickens, a huge kitchen garden and lavender farm for an income, Lavender And is an impressive exercise in living off the land.
Next: the last garden of the day and one of my favourites
A view well worth enjoying.
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What is this new theme called?
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It’s Misty Look. At least, it should be as I did not change it. But the way the photo captions left justify seems different to me.
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I double checked on this and it is Misty Look, pretty sure the same one you use, but they seem to have made the captions different. I don’t like them justified left!!
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I’ve often wondered about this place.
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