How to buy our lavender – there are so many ways!
Sarah was asked by the Coupeville Lion’s Club to give a talk about our new shop in town. What a fun group to talk to! In preparation for the talk we made a video of the work we’ve done on the place, so we thought you might enjoy watching it.
The video is embedded on this page, but if it isn’t – just CLICK HERE to go to Youtube to watch it.
Our newest products! Finally, after you have asked us for this for a long time, our version of lavender salt and lavender pepper have joined our culinary product line.
The Pepper is a simple blend to help you create amazing dishes. It combines an earthy, hot, fruity/tart, and floral flavor to dishes. It will work well in many diverse dishes. Limited only by your imagination! Ingredients: Black, Green & White Pepper (Piper nigrum) Pink Pepper (Schinus terebinthifolius), Lavender.
Our Lavender Salt, which has Sea Salt and Himalayan Pink Salt, is primarily sodium chloride, some believe the trace minerals found in sea salt and himalayan pink salt as well as the reduced processing used to prepare them are desirable. Ingredients: Salt, Lavender
We have our very own chocolatier now!! Her name is Michaelene McElroy and she has only BEGUN to create some amazing treats.
In case you aren’t up on the origins of chocolate, Michaelene writes: Theobroma cacao is native to the deep tropical region of South America. Its seeds are used to make cocoa powder and chocolate. The generic name is derived from the Greek for “food of the gods”; from θεος (theos), meaning “god,” βρῶμα (broma), meaning “food.” Joseph Campbell encouraged folks to, “Follow your bliss,” and here at Lavender Wind, we’re making it easy for you to do just that by creating the first in our series of Lavender Wind Bliss Bark.
Thank you, Michaelene!
Today, she made our first Bliss Bark – Lavender Almond. And she made a lot of it. It’s available at the shop for $6.20 for 3.5 oz.
Aurora has led the team to create our newest product…. Bee Sweet to Your Lips, Lavender Vanilla Lip Balm.
In case you don’t know, it takes a lot to create a new product. We first research basic recipes, then we gather information about oils and their effects on the body. Then we develop a mixture that, when it hardens, will provide both smooth roll on and feeling on the lips as well as stay firm when it’s been in a pocket during the day.
I think we’ve nailed it this time.
Lavender Wind
15 Coveland St.
PO Box 284
Coupeville, WA 98239
360.544.4132
toll free 877.242.7716
Stop by to congratulate owner Sarah Richards and the staff of Lavender Wind on the official Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the new retail shop and manufacturing facility located in a 1916 craftsman home in heart of historic Coupeville. After 10 months of renovations inside and out of this cute house, we are finally ready! If you are in the area, join us for refreshments and take a tour of the beautifully renovated home and enjoy the tastes and scents of lavender!
If you are out of the area we will send you hugs and kisses and greet you when you come to visit.
A year ago we were working on the agreement to purchase our new building in Coupeville, and since then a lot has happened. Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012, we opened for business in our beautiful new shop. There is still more to be finished, but the whole staff is delighted to be working in the new space. We thought you might like to see our retrospective on the project….
Our new “in town” shop is ready for us to move in. For those who might not know, we have leased a building in Coupeville that will house our gift shop and production activities. Almost all our staff will be there, and the farm will be left with a skeleton staff in the off season. Next summer, the gift shop on the farm will re-open and purple season with rows of blooming lavender will be enjoyed by all, once again.
Meanwhile, back at the shop… Our new home in downtown Coupeville is totally enchanting. The place has a perfect union of new and old that will charm those who visit. Please come to visit as soon as we are ready…. should be by Friday or Saturday this week.
See you at the new shop soon!! (15 Coveland St., Coupeville, WA)
Kimberly and Jerry, of Milepost 19 farm have taken the Whidbey Island raspberry scene by storm over the last few years. They had an amazing barn built that has a sweet little apartment upstairs that they rent out. Their raspberry fields are very visible from Highway 20, and they started growing dahlias, too. We carry their raspberry mustard in our shop and they have our raspberry lavender jam. You can see them at the Coupeville Farmers Market most Saturdays.
This weekend (Sept. 15) they are celebrating their 28th wedding anniversary as well as their farm and will be open on Saturday.
The new shop is getting closer to being finished. But, our landscaper is still building the walls, installing the new pavers, gravel, and flower beds. It will be amazing. But, right now the place is really torn up. Andrew’s Landshapers is doing a fabulous job building the walls. We hear of tourists from Britain who stop to take pictures of them working because they didn’t think Americans would build rock walls without concrete. Once again, Whidbey Island shows the talent that is here.
These are significantly large granite rocks. Each one is evaluated for its shape and size for the placement that will be perfect. The backhoe helps with moving the larger rocks into position, but the smaller ones are loaded down to the work area and then they pick through them to find the one that fits. Slowly, rock by rock, the walls come together.
The other part of the project involves moving a fire hydrant to make room for a sidewalk. The present hydrant is an older type that is no longer used, so we have to replace it with a new one. This is a significant task and involves coordinating with several people on the town’s staff, because the system is older and it isn’t clear what is under the ground. This is the problem with doing significant updates of older homes, you don’t know what you’re going to run into – and it always costs more money.
Meanwhile, the inside of the house is getting finished. The kitchen is getting equipped and the painting is nearly done. We’ve applied for licensing for the kitchen, and will be ready to go soon!!
The wiring is roughed in, the plumbing, too. The heating is ducted all around. The crawl space is buttoned up and we passed all the inspections. Next week we’ll be putting up insulation and the drywall process will start. We are putting in a window between the commercial kitchen and the gift shop and to get it made just the way we wanted, we had to order it from New Zealand! I tried to get it in the U.S., but they wouldn’t make it the size I needed – so… just another reminder that while we can do a lot locally, we are truly a global community.
Here’s what the striped walls look like.
They brought the window to the farm where it’s being stored. Key part of this picture are the FOOTPRINTS on the crate. Sure hope the inside is ok!!
You will have to wait until it’s installed to see why we went to these great lengths to get it.
