Sam's Lavender...

Sam’s Lavender is a small farm overlooking Seneca Lake, right in the heart of New York’s Finger Lakes. We got started in 2017 with a few hopeful lavender plants, and while they didn’t exactly thrive, we learned a lot along the way.

The next season, we shifted to a better spot on the farm and planted over 200 more. We're still harvesting nearly all of those plants today! We realized the plants needed more attention with consistent hand-weeding and proper pruning. We also started keeping hives on the farm, and their interest in the lavender turned out to be a surprisingly good harvest clock. We cut our culinary lavender before the bees move in, then harvest the varieties we use for essential oil once they’ve moved on.

Growing What Works

Over the years, we’ve planted more than a dozen varieties and paid close attention to what grows best here - what smells amazing, tastes great, holds its color, and produces the most oil. Currently we're growing five aromatic lavandula x Intermedia and eight culinary lavandula Angustifolia lavender varieties.

From the Field to your Home

We grow lavender to make things we use every day. Cleaning products that smell great and actually work, without the added chemicals. Lavender sugars for baking. Sprigs for cocktails. Mists and sachets to bring a little calm wherever it’s needed. Everything starts with the plants we grow and what we’ve learned from working with them, season after season.

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On the Farm

  • PLANTING AND HARVESTING

    All of our lavender has been hand-planted, hand-weeded (no chemical treatments), and hand-harvested. We currently have seven types of English (culinary) and five types of French (aromatic) planted, with more in the future.

  • LAVENDER DISTILLATION

    Towards the end of the blooming season, our harvest for distillation begins. Lavender essential oil and hydrosol batches are made on the farm in our copper still and incorporated into many of our products.

  • OUR BEES

    Not only do our bees pollinate the lavender, but they also act as messengers. They tell us when we should harvest our culinary lavender (before they arrive) or harvest for distilling (once they're gone.)
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