Once the barn had a use, we looked at the acreage. Although much of the land is planted with soybeans or corn to a neighboring farmer, Steve thought it would be nice to plant a crop of our own, and we settled on Lavender. He sold Melinda on the idea and they decided to plant 100 plants of different varieties to see how things would go.  Throughout the journey, they received much support from previous owner (Brent Ables and family), Melinda’s sister (Kara), brother-in-law (Daniel Fields), and Friend (Rick Maley). Currently, they now raise culinary varieties such as Munstead, Hidcote, Folgate, Royal Velvet, and Phenomenal to extract essential oil. They use the specialty crop to make value added products such as neck wraps, eye pillows, sachets, and selling the bundles in their dried form. Additionally, they have a line of tea along with soaps, lotions, room sprays just to name a few. These items are always found at our annual Lavender Daze Festival in June and again when they celebrate Christmas on the Farm in November. Recently, they have added our newest member to the farm in the form of a 1951 Chevy Truck.