What do you do when you can’t sit down, enjoy time in nature, have some family land you can spend time at? Farm, of course!
We really aren’t going to make a living off the farm, but trees don’t grow very fast and you have to wait a looooong a$$ time before you can cut them down as timber!
My dad and I have been talking for the last few years about agriculture since we went to a quail workshop together. We keep talking and talking…then we have started to try different things!
First – dad bought a tiller/cultivator for the tractor and we started a food plot. I guess it worked okay? We didn’t do it for hunting purposes, it was the beginning of the experiments.
Then I dabbled with Barley. I even chatted with someone from a seed store! I thought this would be the start of growing barley and maybe selling it or making malt….
Nope. The deer had other plans. That ended that experiment. So we moved on. Again….
My husband and I take an annual fall trip to Door County and one year we visited the largest lavender farm in the Midwest. Needless to say, the lavender seed was planted in our minds.
We started talking, thinking, talking again. We brought up the idea to my dad who was also intrigued. Then we kept talking. The idea and thought was always there!
Then along came the Pandemic. COVID-19. The Corona Virus. Social Distancing. Total lock down. As a high stress operating, highly anxious and active individual, this was not a good thing!
Then came action on The Lavender Experiment….
The Lavender Experiment 