How to Grow Lavender Workshops
Do you love the scent and benefits of lavender, but find it hard to grow here in the Southeast? When we started, 13 years ago, growing lavender everyone told us not to bother, since it's never been done before successfully.
After many years of trials and errors and research we have been successful. We had everything against us to grow lavender here in Georgia. Lavender is a Medittereran plant, which means they like well draining soil. In Provence area of France they only get appox 14 inches of rain a year where we get an average of 74 inches. Our Georgia clay is great for pottery and acidic soil great for azaleas, but not lavender.
Yes, you too can overcome these hurdles with our tips and true success planting methods for lavender. We have 2 workshops. One is for the basic gardener and the other is for one wanting to grow lavender on a large scale and maybe grow lavender as a business.
For the home gardener - lavender is beautiful with it atomic purple blooms to welcome visitors as they arrive at your home, bring pollinators to your garden, grow as a border around your garden to keep deer away, and enjoy a border around your patio to keep mosquitoes and floes away. We will actually plant a lavender in a pot to show the amendments necessary to grow lavender here in the south, how to water, where to plant. This is a hands on class. Sign up for this class.
Lavender Academy - We have taught many people over the years to start up their own lavender farm and become successful from North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Florida. You can grow lavender on as small as an acre of land or hundreds of acres. There are also many different aspects of o lavender farm you can go from Farmer's Markets, retail shop, Agritourism business, wholesale, or all. We will cover in this class everything from planting lavender, irrigation, Cultivars of lavender and their uses, harvesting, drying, regulations, diversification, and question/answer. This is a hands on class. Sign up for this class.
Classes are limited so be sure to sign up early!