Photo compliments of Kathleen Parks-Perry Marketing Lavender Alexandra is helping us promote our products to local markets, including Whole Foods, where we recently were accepted as a vendor. Look for our products in local markets, and if you do not see them, please ask them to stock our Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Biodynamic organic… Read more »
Bog Candle One of the last in the spring wildflower series, the bog candle is just finishing its bloom on the edge of the forest. The first time I saw it, I marveled at its delicate beauty. Then suddenly, I saw it everywhere! An orchid, it blooms on our ranch in June into early July…. Read more »
Photographer Lowell Downey of Art and Clarity photographing Clare Cooper Marcus.(You need to contact him to see the photo!) A number of photographers were present Saturday at the Open House. This is Lowell Downey of Art and Clarity, a local Napa photographer and land activist who actually helped us get started with our marketing ten… Read more »
Wrapping tips of horns with horn tape (obvious reasons!) Having an Open House is a little like having a party in the vineyard and lavender fields. Even the goats have to decide what to wear! To wear a bridle or collar? Come meet the goats, take a Biodynamic tour at our Open House, June 23,… Read more »
Baby fuyu persimmon. One of the places we will visit on the Biodynamic tours of our ranch on Saturday, June 23, is the orchard our son Jesse planted. Monocropping is a sure way to bring sterility to a ranch; allowing a diversity of native plants to flourish and raising a variety of crops offers food… Read more »
One or two calyxes are open on the flower heads, signally it is time to harvest for the dried lavender (so it will not “shatter” in a bouquet.) This morning two events! The lavender harvest for the lavender we dry has begun, 6:00 am. This year the dried lot number will be Natalie… Read more »
Preparing for the Open House One of the reasons we have our Open House each year at Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields is to tell you how we apply Biodynamic farming principles on our ranch. We love to explain how we plant a diversity of plants, what we have learned that has worked, and what… Read more »
Open House June 23, 2012
Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Biodynamic Organic estate grown distilled lavender products Open House June 23, 2012 Please join us for a day of tours, talks, sensory delights! Sip our lavender limeade, taste lavender culinary goodies, meet our goats. Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields 10: am to 4:pm 11:am Charlie Toledo, Ex.Director, Suscol Intertribal Council First People’s Sustainable… Read more »
Coastal oak flower bunches about to bloom. This week will determine a lot about the coastal oak acorn harvest this year. We are having late rains (we are not complaining!) and the coastal oak blossoms are about to open. The last years our rains have come in March and into April, and this year is… Read more »
Anna’s scruffy undercoat on a walk this morning. One of the signs that winter is losing its hold is the shedding of the goats’ undercoats! It is so tempting to brush goats as they look pretty scruffy, yet last night the thermometer dropped to 37 degrees and the wind machines in the valley wined all… Read more »
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