US (VA): Lavender Fields Herb Farm offers plants and education
“We really consider ourselves a hidden Richmond gem,” said manager Shaun Mercer.
Mercer says the family farm is a go-to for many people in the Richmond area, but that there are still people two miles down the street who’ve never heard of them.
Over the years, the focus of the farm has changed.
“We started out with the vision of being a lavender farm, so cut your bunches, make your oil, walk through the fields is really what we were after,” said Mercer.
They planted fields of lavender, but in 2003, Hurricane Isabel destroyed them.
“Then we kind of figured that’s probably not the thing to base our business on.”
There are still lavender plants and products to buy, but it’s no longer the center of the operation. Today, it’s a nursery on a farm.
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