Sunshine Lavender Farm's June Bloom Festival. 

You're invited to enjoy the farm for June Bloom. A private residence and a small working farm since 2000, come to relax, inhale and celebrate the sweet, soothing fragrance of lavender. 

Come to make memories of a lifetime! Here's to the beautiful countryside and to reconnecting with your family and friends. Relish in the fresh lavender-y laced air, this charming farm and just breathe.

You may even discover your inner artist too. Did you know that we're more relaxed and brighter when we're creative?

How to enjoy the farm during June Bloom:

Workshop tickets on sale now! Support the artists by signing up today. Join fun, engaging and creative experiences dreamed up just for you and only available here during June Bloom. No admission fee when you sign up for a workshop.

General Admission tickets get you into the farm and go on sale later this spring. You'll choose either a morning ticket and arrive anytime between 9 am - noon or select an afternoon ticket and enjoy the farm between 1 pm until the event closes at 5 pm. *Kids under the age of 15 get free General Admission when accompanied by adult ticketholders, with workshop participants a priority. Pre-paid tickets are required to attend. View the menu and pre-order picnics from our exclusive June Bloom caterer at myjunebloom.com.

Sunday, June 9 :

• Live music on the porch. Local talent, Mary Rocap and Megan Whitted will entertain from the farm porch. Together they go by the name The Travelin' Mercies. The duo began their journey of song a few summers ago and have collected a repertoire that feeds the soul.
• NEW! Meet Abriana Johnson, creator of Cowgirl Camryn and visit with her herd mate Encore the Miniature Horse when you sign up for a book reading and fun craft time! We can't wait to learn, grow, and glow with you!

• NEW! Shades of Purple Natural Dye Workshop. Dye a set of two vintage fabric napkins or tea towels in shades of purple derived from plants. Each napkin or tea towel will be block printed with imagery inspired by the farm.
• NEW! Craft a one-of-a-kind copper & glass beaded Bird Swing they'll love.
  

• Paint a Quilt Square Workshop. For adults and kids! For your garden space, a porch, she-shed, fence, barn, inside your home  -- anywhere. Kids can join in too! You will choose your favorite colors and from a variety of ready-to-paint designs. 

• Get Twinkling Fairy Hair with Friends
• Take a farm tour with owners, offered throughout the day.
• Join a Lavender Craft Workshop using fresh sweetly scented lavender blooms. Fairy crowns, simple bundles or swags. Wands for more skilled hands.
• NEW! Farm Fitness! Melt your body, strengthen and tone and ease into Barre with local and fun fitness experts surrounded by the calming scent of lavender.
  

• Picnic! Pre-order your lavender-themed snacks or lunch from our exclusive caterer at myjunebloom.com.
• NEW! Starpoint Brewing. Enjoy tasty award-winning craft beer to celebrate the lavender. On tap will be refreshing, sunny and light ice-cold brew for your picnic. The farm and Starpoint Brewing have a lot in common. Small and mighty! Starpoint Brewing is one of the smallest and longest running brewers in the state.
• NEW! Lavender flavored frozen treats from roving lavender fairies.

• Beautiful Together Animal Sanctuary. Visit furry friends, adopt and support this local nonprofit.
• Orange County Master Gardeners & Beekeepers to help answer your questions.
• Choose from lots of lavender plants for your southern garden or containers. 
• Shop the farm's Lavender Love Shop & Farm Market stocked with handmade lavender items lovingly created in small batches to soothe body & soul, for the garden, gifts, home and weddings too.

Lavender items are created from the crop grown using natural practices where no synthetic chemicals, herbicides or pesticides are used. You will find many one-of-a-kind items unique to Sunshine Lavender Farm.

More Details : 

Cowgirl Camryn Book Readings will be at 10 am, 12 pm, and 2 pm with a craft activity immediately after.

At 10 am we will read Cowgirl Camryn and the Crazy Hair Day. Around 10:30am we will do a cowgirl/cowboy hat decorating craft and talk about patterns, shapes, colors, and textures. This session is for anyone, and best suited for our Barnyard Besties 7 years old and under.

At 12 pm we will read Cowgirl Camryn and the Great Escape. Around 12:30pm we will do an achievement belt buckle craft and talk about teamwork, what we can achieve together, and being proud of the accomplishments of ourselves and others. This session is for anyone, and best suited for our Barnyard Besties between 7-10 years old.

At 2 pm we will read A to Z with Cowgirl Camryn. Around 2:30pm we will prepare sunflower greenhouses for the kids to take home and grow. We will talk about agriculture, the connection between humans, animals, and the environment, and what we can do to help it BLOOM! This session is for anyone, and best suited for our Barnyard Besties 7+ years old.

Shades of Purple Natural Dye Workshop
Jess Fauscette of Polly's Press is a Savannah College of Art & Design graduate and an accomplished multi-talented fiber artist. You'll team with her to naturally dye a set of two vintage fabric napkins or tea towels in shades of purple derived from plants. Each napkin or tea towel will be block printed with imagery inspired by the farm. 

This is a workshop where you will learn how to prepare a natural dye pot, the different color possibilities plants offer and how a dip in natural dye will provide a refresh for well-loved items. We’ll have a vat of plant-derived red onion skin dye, Logwood dye + madder root dye for a range of purple shades.

Bring new life to secondhand linens at this hands-on workshop at Sunshine Lavender Farm. Creative reuse helps the environment, saves you money, and is so much fun!

Workshop is offered on Sunday June 9th at 10 am, 12 pm, 2 pm + 4 pm. Allow 1-1.5 hours for the class + item drying time. Consisting of setting up the dye vats, everyone will receive written information about each of the dyes being used/info about how to wash + care for their naturally dyed items. After the vats are prepared everyone will dip their items in the dyes (the items will need to be in the baths for 10-60 min) rinsed in warm water + hung to dry.

Quilt Square Painting Workshop: For adults and kids! For your garden space, a porch, she-shed, fence, barn, inside your home  -- anywhere. Kids can join in too! You will choose from a variety of ready-to-paint designs. Two quilt designs are unique to the farm. Select your favorite paint colors to create your very own quilt square. Super fun and easy! With the guidance from a local woodworking expert, (his mom turned him on to painting quilt patterns) adults paint a 24-inch x 24-inch barn quilt square. Kids paint a 12 x 12 and must be accompanied by an adult to participate. Space is limited. Allow 2 hours.

Fresh Lavender Craft Workshop: From various shades of sweetly scented fresh lavender stems, for beginners and for those who have more experienced hands, farm ambassadors will help you determine the best item to make. You'll also stuff a sachet with preserved lavender to take home. Allow one hour. 

Get Festive Fairy Hair with Friends: Get twinkling fairy hair strands woven into your locks. Divvy up a total of 24 sparkling strands during your magical one-hour session with a maximum of four friends. Many colors to choose from and for all hair types. Priced for one hour with the fairy hair expert. When four friends sign up, that's $16 per person with farm visit included.

Farm Fitness: 

Melt your body with Sharon Addison.

Learn this restorative practice using balls to improve fascial hydration, calm the mind, and restore supportive qualities of the connective tissue. We’ll finish with a calming meditation. You will need water to drink, and a yoga mat. 
Mood: supportive, calm

Strengthen & Tone with Alicia Reid.

Use resistance to tone major muscle groups and strengthen your body. You will need a yoga mat and a resistance band, if you have one.
Mood: energetic & toning

Ease into Barre with Sharon Addison.

This class uses ballet, yoga and Pilates to tone your abs, and lower body. Just energetic enough to get interesting with some standing moves, we’ll transition to the mat for a little core, we’ll slow it down with soupy yoga moves before the meditation. You will need a yoga mat. 
Mood: progressive from energetic —> meditative

Of course, there's a soothing lavender-y experience included with each session.

Fitness Professionals:

Sharon Addison: sweetandfit.studio
Certifications in Yoga, Pilates, Barre, Hula Hooping, Aqua Fitness, Spin Bikes, The MELT Method (Hand and Foot Treatment and Level 1 and Level 2), and a Personal Trainer. CPR and First Aid Trained.

By combining my love of functional fitness with my talent for teaching, I will inspire you to be stronger and fitter. This isn’t geared toward your perfect bikini photo shot. This fitness method is about having a strong core, a healthy back, strong muscles, and the endurance to live your life to its fullest. Sweet and Fit is a safe community built to encourage you and support you on your journey. - Sharon

Alicia Reid: 

Alicia Reid has been teaching fitness for two decades. She holds multiple fitness certifications, including one with the Arthritis Foundation. In her spare time, she hosts a radio show called "Afternoon Talk with Alicia" on WCOM radio.

Picnic: View the menu and pre-order farm fresh snack and lunch items from our exclusive June Bloom caterer at myjunebloom.com. You'll discover lavender-themed food and drink which folks rave about year after year.  Pre-order lunches as an individual or as a group on a single tab. Due to the popularity of our exclusive food vendor, you are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO PLACE YOUR ORDER IN ADVANCE.

The Orange County Master Gardeners will help answer your plant, shrub and tree questions too. These volunteers are a wealth of knowledge! Special thanks to Orange County Cooperative Extension for their long-time support of this event.

The Orange County Beekeepers Association will join in too! They're an all-volunteer member driven group in our community dedicated to raising awareness and appreciation of honeybees and other insect pollinators. They fundraise to provide financial support for research directed toward improving honeybee health, sustainable beekeeping, honey production and other areas of apicultural practice.

Calling all artists! Painters, are you looking for a plein air experience? Please consider joining in.

The Poultry Palace is home to a lovely flock of hens and will be clucking in celebration of your farm visit too. Due to the concerns centered around the HPAI or avian flu, you may enjoy the flock from afar.

You must get tickets to reserve your spot and any workshops desired for yourself, family and friends. You will be asked to check in upon your arrival. Your support of the farm is greatly appreciated. 

Sunshine Lavender Farm, established in 2000, is small family owned and operated farm. Petite, and many exclaim, a pretty place! Mighty too since we've been growing lavender for over 20 years. When you visit, you'll discover that the farm is feeling spry with oodles of huge productive lavender plants you can't get your arms around. The young ones are getting ready to show off. The farm is our humble home, and we look forward to welcoming you. 

How did this event come about? June Bloom celebrations were originally planned as a thank you to the farm’s loyal farm friends and a means to invest in those who help to harvest the lavender when the field is ready. The farm is open just a few days a year. In June, during June Bloom, while the lavender is in bud or flowering, and just before the crop is harvested, for Spring and Fall Planting Clinics and for the Lavender Holiday Farm Market.

Bring whatever you need to be comfortable on the farm during your visit like a quilt or lawn chairs. A hat, water bottle (working hard to be a zero waste/no single use plastic event), sunscreen, bug spray, garden shears and of course, your camera too.

No smoking on the farm. No pets, please. If the weather is looking iffy for Sunday, RAIN DATE IS SATURDAY, JUNE 8.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

The Baggett Family
Dale, Annie, Abigail, Sylvie and the entire Sunshine Lavender Farm crew!