Zipping up for Winter
Frost cloth stays on all winter, transmitting 70% of the light as well as the rain and allowing several degrees of frost protection. Goats have to be watched with the tender new plants (which you can just see in the mulching straw.) They love tender green almost anything! This season is always more… Read more »
Lavender Lessons on Flexibility
One of the old lavender plants just pulled. The new growth is so short that we were unable to harvest it even for distillation this year. One of the big things you learn in biodynamics is to observe not only what you see but also what you feel as you see it. As… Read more »
Distillation is about Essence
Collecting unfilteredd lavender essential oil after distillation Donald is distilling lavender, and it is not a process for the young! In chemist/philosopher Primo Levi’s words, “…it is a slow, philosophic, and silent occupation, which keeps you busy but gives you time to think about other things…” a process whereby “you acquire the consciousness of… 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 »
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 »
Pruning and Winter Light: Crystallization Period
Frosty Fallowness in January Pruning and Winter Light January into February is about cutting back old wood. Nevertheless, wings of light unfold, if you let them, and carry you through quiet fallowness. Although we are into the fallow period and do almost no Biodynamic spraying… Read more »
Winter Work Our vineyard has huge caterpillars at work these days: our winter project to protect the rose geranium and lavender plantings during frosty nights. There are certain places the cold air accumulates, freezing the frost vulnerable rose geranium and some lavender, and it is in these places we stretch agribon over wire supports, which… Read more »
Jesse and Nathan putting up the Grand Opening Sign.First Light Farm’s produce is a Certified Organic. Yesterday my grandson Wesley and I visited during the preparations for the Grand Opening of First Light Farm Farm Stand, 4588 Bodega Avenue, Petaluma, formerly Anderson’s Farm Stand. The stand will be open from 12 to 5 pm today… Read more »
The new lavender (grosso) plants are full and looking very healthy. We continue to feed them every two or three weeks with compost tea. It has been a year now since they were started from cuttings from our own stock.
Early morning harvest of Lot Natalie 12 for distillation. Once a fellow lavender grower told me that when people asked him if he would buy their lavender, he replied, Do you really want me to come and cut it back just when it is its most beautiful? Usually the answer was maybe not! But that… Read more »
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