Laurens Lavender Farm was established in 1999 by our family members
Lorraine, Scott and Ross who purchased a property with the intent of
establishing a lavender farm. With the help of a much loved daughter and
father, our family got to work and set about to make a dream come true.
In 2001, tragedy struck our family with the loss of a much loved
daughter, sister and niece. Her name was Lauren, and we have named our
Lavender Farm after Lauren and her memory.
As time went on, we decided to convert our old farm house and
make-shift horse stables in to a cafe and shop for customers to purchase
our lavender products. We decided to paint some of the walls bright
lime green and all the other walls are the original varnished walls from
the original farm house. We added a very large deck on the front and
side and the floor of the cafe is in blue and green tiles
and the shop floor the original varnished floor boards.
and the shop floor the original varnished floor boards.
We all helped in the renovations with Scott doing the painting and
staining with help from our youngest daughter Kasey. Ross and Scott
both helped with the building of the deck and Lorraine kept the team
spirits high with her lovely meals that fed the family through many long
nights of hard work.
For the past 6 years we have been harvesting the lavender by hand
with lots of help from friends and family. This year we finally
purchased a harvester which makes the going easier and we use a partner
lavender farm to help us extract the oils from our lavender plants.
Laurens Lavender Farm has been open to the public for four years
and every year we are enjoying the fruits of our labours with a growing
customer base and lovely comments in our visitors books.
http://www.laurenslavender.co.nz/index.html
http://www.laurenslavender.co.nz/index.html
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