Sunshine Lavender Farm's June Bloom Festival. NEW fun!

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 are available now! Support the artists by signing up today. Join NEW 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 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 at myjunebloom.com.

Saturday, June 15 :

• Live music on the porch. Local talent, Mary Rocap and Megan Whitted go by the name The Travelin' Mercies. The duo began their journey of song a couple of summers ago and have collected repertoire that feeds the soul.
• NEW! Join the Garden Markers Clay Class with a talented young artist new to the event, Angela Eastman. You'll add color and style to your garden bed by designing and painting your very own collection of four ceramic garden markers. Never forget which is Lavender or Rosemary again!

• NEW! Eco-Printing + Indigo Workshop on a 100% silk scarf with multi-faceted fiber artist, Jess Fauscette!

• Beautiful Together Animal Sanctuary will be here sharing about their TimberNook Programs which are authentic and research-backed outdoor play experiences designed to inspire child-directed learning — encouraging children to think and play in new and creative ways. Slash, the farm pup was a rescue from BTAS. We cannot say enough about how delightful the process was to bring him into our home and our hearts. Our farm family is thrilled to align with this local nonprofit during June Bloom.
• Get Twinkling Fairy Hair with Friends
• NEW! Handmade Lavender frozen goodies from a roving fairy / baker.
• Paint a Quilt Square Workshop for your garden, home, she-shed, fence, barn -- anywhere! Kids can join in too! 

• 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! Strengthen, gain balance, melt and tone your body with local and fun fitness professionals surrounded by the calming scent of lavender.

• Picnic! View the menu and pre-order your lavender-themed snacks or lunch from our exclusive June Bloom 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.
• Support Paws4Ever, a local nonprofit organization. Paws4ever has adoptable rescue pets, plus dog training classes and resources to support you and your new buddy for a lifetime!
• 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:

Eco-Printing + Indigo Workshop:

Eco printing is the process of transferring color directly from a flower or plant to a piece of cloth. It’s a simple and fun natural dye technique that gives truly stunning results. We will be using a variety of plants grown by the artist, Jess Fauscette and foraged from Sunshine Lavender Farm to print onto fabric. Attendees will eco-print one 100% silk square scarf. There will be a vat of plant derived indigo for workshop goers to dip their eco-printed silk into for additional all over color. This is a fun way to interact with the natural environment, learn about plant dye methods and create a beautiful flower printed item.

Workshop is offered Saturday June 15th at 9 am, 10:30 am, 1:30 pm and 3 pm. Allow at least one hour. Class will consist of foraging plants on the farm, retrieving flowers from the garden + picking through the cut flowers the artist will bring. We will then arrange the plant materials on our scarves, prep them to be steamed + eco print. We’ll allow the bundles to cool + then retrieve them from the pots, unroll + remove flowers. Attendees will have the opportunity to dip their eco-printed items into a vat of plant derived indigo to beautifully finish off their scarves with an all-over blue shade that perfectly complements the colors from eco-printing. We will rinse the items and hang them to dry. Everyone will receive written information on the plants we’ve used as well as step by step instructions on eco-printing.

Garden Markers Clay Class: 

You'll add color and style to your garden bed by designing and painting your own ceramic garden stakes. A set of four bisqued markers will be ready for you to paint with underglaze. Then they will go through the glaze firing by your artist-educator, Angela Eastman of Flag Mountain Studio, after the event. Is that Parsley or Cilantro? Never forget which is Lavender or Rosemary again! For locals to the farm, come back to pick up your glazed markers when you're notified that they're ready OR choose the "Ship my garden markers to me." when you buy your workshop ticket to have them mailed to you. 

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.

Farm Fitness!

Pilates/Balance with Alicia Reid.
Essential core moves to tone your tummy plus challenge and improve your balance. You will need a yoga mat.
Mood: Upbeat core & balance

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

Strength & 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

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 from the Arthritis Foundation. In her spare time, she hosts a radio show called "Afternoon Talk with Alicia" on WCOM radio.

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 including the farm visit.

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. In case of inclement weather, RAIN DATE IS SUNDAY, JUNE 16.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

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