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Cooking Class – May 1 2014

Learn to cook with lavender and some techniques to make some basics much better!

with Alena Stapel and Sarah Richards 

Thursday,  May 1st –  6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Learn to cook with lavender as well as learn cooking techniques that will improve your cooking ability and confidence.

Cooking Class May 2014 Web

You will learn how to properly cook a steak, make a rub, and a salsa to accompany it. Then you will learn how to make lavender chocolate chip cookies and how to adjust the recipe so you get the kind of cookie you really want. Learn amazing tips that will take your cooking to a new level.

Instructors:  Sarah Richards, owner of Lavender Wind, loves cooking with lavender and creating new dishes. She teaches many classes related to using lavender.

Alena Stapel is a Whidbey Island native with a strong passion for work in the restaurant and catering industry. She received an Associates of Applied science degree in Culinary Arts from Bellingham Technical College and has received numerous awards in competitions through the Washington Restaurant Association. She currently works at Front Street Grill in Coupeville and the Elks Lodge in Oak Harbor as the Event Coordinator and lead catering staff respectively.

The cost of the class is  $30 and is limited to 10 people.

You can register by calling 360-544-4132.

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Artists invited to apply

Lavender Wind Festival Poster 2014Web

Ninth Annual Lavender Wind Festival – 2014

  • Event: Lavender Wind Festival
  • Location of Festival:  2530 Darst Rd. Coupeville
  • Mailing Address: PO Box 284, Coupeville, WA 98239
  • email: info@lavenderwind.com
  • July 26 & July 27, 2014
  • 10:00 am – 5:00pm

Whidbey Island Artists are invited to apply to exhibit at the annual Lavender Wind Festival

Visitors will enjoy a beautiful weekend of Lavender in bloom, art, wine and music!

Application: Festival Artist Application (pdf) Festival Artist Application (word)

Please submit 3 images of your Artwork and an Artist statement by sending an email with the images attached to info@lavenderwind.com by May 15th, 2014. Any aspect of lavender in one or more pieces of your art will be a plus when juried.

UPDATE: We are still accepting applications. We have our first artists set, but there are a few more spaces.

All submissions will be juried and artists notified by May 31st.

Lavender Wind Festival Poster 2014 for Artists to use.

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Doing things Backwards

LWback

Backwards Day is on January 31. Time to celebrate the potential in doing things in reverse (with lavender, of course).

When I was in Aix-en-Provence studying during my junior year in college I took many classes in French history,language, art history, and more. I wanted to be out roaming the streets and countryside (back then lavender wasn’t a twinkle in my eye). I was focused on finding young people to go with me to “Les Boites” and dance all night. Also, all those Patisseries were calling my name. So, as you can imagine, the lectures in the classes would seem rather dull. Being a good art student, though, I came up with a great solution. I’d practice being like Leonardo da Vinci and write in mirror writing. I took many notes in that way which ended up costing me. Studying, using those notes, was challenging and my grades suffered a bit.

Why would you want to do anything backwards like do mirror writing? Someone was wondering what purpose Leonardo da Vinci had in doing his mirror writing. He thinks it might be for the very process of forcing himself to slow down. In addition to slowing down, it gives those of us with over-active minds something to do while we are supposed to be listening to someone talking.

Then, almost as if it was a family tradition, my son adopted a part of mirror writing in the logo of his work. It is particularly cool if you knew that he is a physicist and was working in theoretical particle physics where they analyze the results of atoms speeding through a huge ring and crashing into each other. That would tend to send some of them backwards.

But, all those esoteric backwards events miss the basic need every kid has in doing things the wrong way around. And that is:

Eating Dessert FIRST!!

Lavender foods are some of the best way to do that. We have lavender chocolates, lavender cookies, lavender candied pecans, lavender jams… the list goes on and on. We also have lavender baking extract and culinary lavender so you can create your own dessert first goodies. Click here for a great recipe of Lavender Brownies so you can get started celebrating doing things backwards with lavender.

Finally, a quote from my favorite Art History teacher when she was taking us around to amazing cathedrals and other places in France.

EMichaud

 

 

 

by Sarah Richards

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First Anniversary

Can You Believe it?

We’ve been in our Coupeville Shop for ONE YEAR!!

Opening in the Fall of 2012
Opening in the Fall of 2012

It’s been quite an odyssey. First we remodeled the inside and the landscape of this charming 1916 Bungalow in the Historic Waterfront District of Coupeville. Then we moved in and started cooking. Literally! Our beautiful kitchen has churned out our products such as our lotions and soaps. We also have developed a great line of food products which we are constantly expanding. All that and running the farm, too. We’ve had a busy year!

Harvesting Grosso 2013
Some were working on the Farm and others were at the shop in town during the summer.

Our staff enjoys greeting all visitors to the shop. It’s great fun to visit with old friends as well as new ones. You, our community and our customers, make our days go by quickly by bringing joy to us all.

To thank you for our great first year. We are having an all day party with:

  • Refreshments
  • Door Prizes (chance to win a $25 gift certificate) Four different drawings will be held.  You do not need to be present to win.

Come to our first anniversary celebration

Saturday, November 23, 2013
10 am to 6 pm

Inside Shop Fall 2013
And now the shop is packed with goodies.

15 Coveland Street, Coupeville
360-544-4132

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Boat Naming Contest at the Art of the Boat Festival

Lillie Mistral
Lillie Mistral

We had Sarah’s 13’ Sailboat set up on the driveway of Lavender Wind’s shop during the Art of the Boat Festival.

It’s a darling little boat manufactured by Micro Marine (a company that was based in Massachusetts, we have no idea how it got out here). We set up a sign challenging people to try to name the boat and if we picked one, we’d award that person a $20 gift certificate. Then we put out a quart canning jar and waited.

We got a lot of entries, it was hard to decide! Thank you to all who used their brains to help us figure this out. There are two winners because we took one word from each of two entries, and took some poetic license with the spelling of one. Most people would chose a different name, but each of the words chosen has meaning to Sarah and represents a part of her life.

That cute little sailboat is now named  “Lillie Mistral”

The winners are: Betsy Brace & Leslie Claesson

They have been sent a Gift Certificate via their email address that they had on the form.

For your enjoyment the entries were:

  • A Frayed Knot
  • Naughtayot
  • Nautical Smiles
  • Penn Cove’s Water Lily
  • Mistral
  • Wind Dancer
  • My Boat
  • It’s All About Me
  • Wind Runner
  • Wind Child
  • Lil Veg
  • Jen-nay
  • Lavender a Sea
  • Purple Love
  • Jiblet
  • The Lavender Lady
  • Itty Bitty
  • Wallow
  • Cove Dancer
  • Gull Chaser
  • Adept
  • Fore Sail
  • Baby Blue
  • Star Dancer
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Cooking Nettles on Clay CLASS

Nettles, who wants ‘em? They just sting ya and the pain goes on for hours and hours. But, wait! They have some other qualities that you may want. They are packed with vitamins and protein. And when you can’t harvest them anymore, because they are past the good food stage, then you can use them as chicken food, or as a source for fibre and make your own clothes.

Cooking Nettles on Clay Class

Cook on Clay flameware cooking pots are made with a “flameproof” clay that is designed to withstand extreme temperatures. These pots can go directly from the refrigerator to a hot oven and back again without cracking! Watch them in action during this class – and you’ll be able to buy some if you fall in love with them and they are made on Whidbey!!

Instructors:  Sarah Richards, Lavender Wind, loves gathering nettles and creating new dishes from them. Cook on Clay creators, Maryon Attwood and Robbie Lobell have developed an amazing set of cookware made from clay that you can use just about anywhere. We’ll be using that cookware to make the nettle dishes.

Wednesday, April 10th –  6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at our shop at 15 Coveland St, Coupeville

The cost of the class is  $30 and is limited to 8 people. You can register by calling 360-544-4132.

 

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Herbs for Health: Pain and Inflammation

Join us for an introductory class on how to use plant-based medicine to ease pain and reduce inflammation in different areas of the body.Herbs for Inflammation Class

Participants will learn how to make professional standard tinctures as well as become familiar with how to use your taste, smell and sight in testing herbal preparations. Students will also learn how to stay safe when using tinctures.

Everyone will leave with a tincture to complete at home and lists of resources for herbs, supplies, and lots of stories about using herbs.

Taught by our own Toni Grove who received her BS in Herbal Sciences from Bastyr University, recognized globally for its rigorous curriculum and strong research in science-based natural medicine. She is also a Master Gardener and a member of the American Botanical Council, the American Herbalists Guild, and United Plant Savers.

Saturday, February 23rd –  10 a.m. to 12 noon
at our shop: 15 Coveland St, Coupeville

The cost of the class is  $30 and is limited to 8 people.

You can register by calling 360-544-4132.