First Day of Dried Lavender Harvest Another year’s harvest blog, but the story of where the stems come from when you order a dried bouquet, cooking stems, or loose flowers. Watch for a recipe this next week for your Thanksgiving turkey! Almost three weeks late, but lavender harvest is finally here! We started harvesting at dawn… Read more »
Animals are an important part of Biodynamic practices. Not only do they help with weeding, but their manures provide fertility, all part of an important feedback cycle. Biodynamic Association Listing The Biodynamic Association website has a new feature in which we farmers, growers, processors and producers are… Read more »
Happy Thanksgiving from Harms Vineyards!
Boey and St. Francis: Thanks for the animals! Happy Thanksgiving from Harms Vineyards! There is so much for which to be grateful this year: the harvests of grapes and lavender; our dear llama Racu who guarded our goats these last sixteen years and passed this fall; our customers who have supported our Biodynamic organic farming… Read more »
Compost Cycle of Our Ranch
Dasher and Valley clean last leaves from chardonnay vines. White strips are pheromone strips to control European grapevine moth. Compost Cycle of Our Ranch I think of our goats as kinds of blenders: they mix up the food stuffs of the ranch, then release what isn’t digested to be composted and put back into building… Read more »
Open House Prep: Goat Gate
Curse: May you be blessed with smart goats! Open House Prep: Goat Gate The goats do keep us on our toes! Last year they broke out of their assigned area during the first Biodynamic tour of our ranch and joined us! As much as I love walking… Read more »
Ami Mauntner, Napa Valley Apothecary, to speak at Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House
Ami Mauntner, Napa Valley Apothecary, to speak at Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House Ami Mauntner, proprietor of Napa Valley Apothecary, First Street, Napa, will be speaking at 2 pm on The Many Healing Uses of Lavender for the Mind, Body and Spirit. She will demonstrate recipes for making lavender inspired body care products and healing… Read more »
Special Event at the Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House: Healing Our Waters
Bokochi balls ready to go to work! Charlie Toledo, Executive Director of Suscol Intertribal Council, will follow her 11 am talk, One Water: From Rain to Seas, with a demonstration of the making and use of Bokochi balls, a probiotic mud-ball used in Costa Rica and well as our own Napa River… Read more »
Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House: June 22, 2013
Come meet Valley, the goat! Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House: June 22, 2013 Please join us for a day of tours, talks, sensory delights! June 22, 2012, 10 am to 4 pm Meet our goats! Sip our Lavender… Read more »
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 »
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