Agro Tourism

Dear Sponsors and Friends of
The Vashon Island Lavender Farm Tour:

For the past seven years, the members of VILGA - The Lavender Sisters, Fox Farm Lavender, and more recently Lavender Hill Farm - have opened our farms to host a lavender farm tour and harvest celebration on Vashon.  Your extremely generous support has made it possible to bring over 2500 visitors to the farms in the last several years.  While we hate to disappoint everyone - islanders, tourists, supporters, volunteers and lavender lovers - all of us feel the need, after seven years of harvesting and hosting, to rest in our eighth year.

So, it is with some regret but also a deep need to renew and revitalize, that we are announcing a hiatus for the summer of 2010.  We know that the lavender farm tour is enthusiastically supported and attended and we look forward to seeing what a hiatus will bring in terms of new ideas and vision for the years ahead.  But all of us want to return to the land and the lavender that inspired the festival and tend to our own gardens, families and friends.

Summer on Vashon will still be filled with lavender.  Lavender Hill Farm will be open daily all season for U-Cut lavender and gift items.  Fox Farm will be hosting weddings and events.  The Lavender Sisters will be selling lavender and products at the Saturday Farmers Market.   Later in the spring, we will meet to talk about smaller events we can host next summer.  We will be sure to let you know.

Lavender Farms:

for more information go to:

Website: www.vashonlavender.com