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.
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!
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.
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.
Teresa and Allan walked down. I decided not to because chunky gravel is hard on the knees.

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 east. If the Lavender Farm owners also own the tideland, they probably add oysters to their sustainability.
Meanwhile, I had just sat at a picnic table on the east side of the pole barn and enjoyed the view.
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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