The following posts were taken from the website for Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields, which we operated from 2010 until 2019. They offer a window into our lives on the farm and the ways the farm changed us. In 2018 we decided to end our lavender business but we continue to work with our land in ways that bring balance and health. Posts on this website will continue to follow our work.
Sneak Preview: 10 ml Bottle of Biodynamic Organic Lavender Essential Oil
New 10 ml size One of the ways that Lisa helped us was in some market research as to what people wanted. This size of our estate distilled lavender essential oil is a result of that and is available at Petaluma Market and soon at select Whole Foods. You will soon be able… Read more »
A good way to begin cooking with lavender. Available at Petaluma Market or online. Photo by Art and Clarity. One of the easiest ways to begin cooking with lavender is to use these cooking stems (fire sticks) in grilling. Soak them in water and then use them in a clay pot with garlic and other… Read more »
Your Chance to Sample Our Lavender Limeade on Friday, April 12!
Our lavender is ideal for culinary use. Art and Clarity photo. Your Chance to Sample Our Lavender Limeade on Friday, April 12! If you haven’t had a chance to sample our lavender limeade— and it is a transformative experience! —Lisa will be offering samples again this Friday, April 12, at… Read more »
Road Work
Loading gravel into dump trailer to take to road. Road Work It feels like the necessary sacrifice to have a road to our home: this tending of it. It is a gravelly road, one that follows an old wagon trail and then trade route west, and it goes through fragile… Read more »
Old Friends
Starbursts of California Buttercup, long blooming. Old Friends Our morning walks are meetings with many old friends, natives to this area, always blooming in the same locations. They are a little later this year with the cold winter and early spring, but they remind us, This is the beginning,… Read more »
Lisa is at Petaluma Market tomorrow, March 30!
Lisa is at Petaluma Market tomorrow, March 30! Our daughter-in-law Lisa is offering samples and suggestions for use of our Certified Biodynamic organic lavender essential oil, facial mist, and bath salts tomorrow, Saturday, March 30 at Petaluma Market in Petaluma, California, from 4-7 pm. She will also be there Friday, April 12, from 3-5 pm…. Read more »
Grape Buds Appear
Grape Buds Appear What is always amazing to me is that in the cup of the first tiny leaves opening from the bud on the grapevine rests the tiny bunches which will bloom in a few weeks and, fertilized, become grapes.
Goats and Kids
Agaleah Goats and Kids This morning I am reminded of how much farming is like motherhood: Your big plans for the day dissipate when Agaleah holds out her front left foot like a precious, painful offering, and looks at you pleadingly. After careful examination which yields no clues, only… Read more »
Aldo Leopold and Goethe
A paperback version from Ballantine Books, 1966. Many of us at the conference carried this edition. Aldo Leopold and Goethe The principles Aldo Leopold wrote about in A Sand County Almanac, first published in 1949, are so similar to those principles in Rudolf Steiner’s Biodynamic Agriculture, and further… Read more »
Spring Equinox
Spring Equinox Another image from the Geography of Hope Conference, as invoked in a closing “prayer” by West Marin resident Diane as she placed us in geographic historical context: The equinox sunrise is sited in a Serpent Mound alignment. Attunement with astrological events was important to our ancestors. You may have met Norma Churchill at… Read more »
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