Hay Berry Farm » Lavender - Hay Berry Farm http://hayberryfarm.org/blog1 Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:35:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 October 26, 2013 Hoosick Falls High School Fall Festival http://hayberryfarm.org/blog1/2013/10/24/october-26-2013-hoosick-falls-high-school-fall-festival/ http://hayberryfarm.org/blog1/2013/10/24/october-26-2013-hoosick-falls-high-school-fall-festival/#comments Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:35:10 +0000 Administrator http://hayberryfarm.org/blog1/?p=499 Join us at Hoosick Falls High School this Saturday from 9am – 3pm for the annual Fall Festival. 

Fall Festival has fun activities and games for kids including an old-fashioned cake walk, the popular Animaland, Haunted Hall, many vendors selling their wares including crafts and homemade products, and fabulous door … Continue reading → ]]>

Some of our field flowers

Field flowers drying


Join us at Hoosick Falls High School this Saturday from 9am – 3pm for the annual Fall Festival. 

Fall Festival has fun activities and games for kids including an old-fashioned cake walk, the popular Animaland, Haunted Hall, many vendors selling their wares including crafts and homemade products, and fabulous door prizes and raffle items. 

Hay Berry Farm will feature our dried flowers, dried flower arrangements, wool products from our sheep, farmer-made baskets and more. 

Hope to see you there.

Holiday Wreath

Holiday Wreath

]]> http://hayberryfarm.org/blog1/2013/10/24/october-26-2013-hoosick-falls-high-school-fall-festival/feed/ 0 Lavender, sage, rosemary, and … more lavender http://hayberryfarm.org/blog1/2013/02/20/lavender-sage-rosemary-and-more-lavender-2/ http://hayberryfarm.org/blog1/2013/02/20/lavender-sage-rosemary-and-more-lavender-2/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2013 03:39:11 +0000 Administrator http://hayberryfarm.org/blog1/?p=169 It has taken a lot of time, but I’m pleased to say today we’ve found some excellent sources for herbs that have the qualities we want for You-Snip customers.   Many of the larger growers concentrate on producing plants that are strictly visually exciting.  Some lavenders, for example, are incredibly beautiful … Continue reading → ]]> LavenderPixabay

Lavender and more lavender

It has taken a lot of time, but I’m pleased to say today we’ve found some excellent sources for herbs that have the qualities we want for You-Snip customers.   Many of the larger growers concentrate on producing plants that are strictly visually exciting.  Some lavenders, for example, are incredibly beautiful in the garden and as a hedge.

But we seek varieties that are also excellent for cooking and baking, that smell wonderfully fragrant and that dry well for use in crafts such as wreathes and sachets.  We expect to transplant our first eight varieties of lavender this spring in the You-Snip part of the field.

We also found several different sage varieties that will also be versatile for cooking, their unusual fragrance as well as great for crafts.  Rosemary, one of my favorite herbs in the kitchen, will also be part of the You-Snip field.  I’ve recently made a deliciously fragrant hair treatment using both rosemary from my garden and rosemary essential oil.

So much fun!

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