Mountainside Lavender Farm

July is lavender season in Oregon, and many farms host festivals around the second weekend in July.

Festivals generally involve bringing in vendors and live music, which is the kind of thing that attracts a crowd. We went to check out Mountainside Lavender on July 5th, five days before the festival.

There are charming touches of purple scattered around.

Inside the store you can purchase various lavender products.

Mountainside has both French and English lavender planted in neat rows with labels at the end. You can take clippers into the field to select your own bunches of lavender, or just walk among the rows sniffing.

One thing we were not prepared for was the bees. I was not able to get a picture that really captured it, but they were everywhere.

In some gardening information I have, there was a long list of bees attracted to lavender. I think I saw them all. I guess the lavender honey needs to come from somewhere.

http://www.mountainsidelavender.com

http://oregonlavenderdestinations.com/