If you’d asked us 20yrs ago, do you ever see yourself farming lavender? We would have laughed ya right out of the room! As Clark Griswold said “I wouldn’t be more surprised if I woke up with my head sewed to the carpet”! So how in the world did we get here!!?? Here is the keeping it real version. Adam had spent 20yrs working construction industry excelling at his craft. I had built a 20yr career in real estate. We both felt we strived to do our best in all we did. As a go-getter kind of gal, when I turned 40 I found my resilience to stress started wane, my nervous system became over stimulated, which created a chronic state of fight or flight and up regulated cortisol, thus resulted in a myriad of symptoms including anxiety. Although I had practiced real estate for 20+ years, and became a top producing agent, my mind and body no longer able to keep up with the stress that came with my career. I really struggled with the idea of letting go of something I spent 20 years building, but was my health worth it?
The Seed was planted…
Sometime the wind is in your sails, other times life can knock the wind out of them. That was 2019 was for us, tremendously challenging was an understatement. That year changed who we were and the lens in which we viewed life. We spent time in self reflection, asking ourselves “what do we want our lives to look like?” then looked at what was important to us, what things felt purposeful?
– We wanted to live close to nature and the healing it can bring.
– We are both creative by nature and having the ability to use those gifts was important.
– But most of all, we wanted to use our abilities help people.
That led us to farming. For us, lavender was the perfect choice for many reasons including its peace and beauty. But the biggest and best reason, is because it’s a truly magnificent herb with wonderful therapeutic properties that can help people with the very things we’ve experienced. Who better to create lavender goods to help others, than people who use them to help themselves?
The data we found on lavender was astounding…
I’ve always considered myself a self proclaimed data junkie…especially when it comes to our own health and wellness. I like to “nerd out” in the research, and while doing that, we found the data on lavender was astounding! Studies showing the effectiveness of lavender and it’s ability to cool an over stimulated nervous system, by increasing the calming neurotransmitter GABA, thus soothing anxiety. Another study concluded that “lavender significantly reduces individuals’ stress” who isn’t feeling more of that these days? Other studies showed its effectiveness to potentially help with insomnia and improve sleep quality. Studies showing that lavender has the ability to soothe peri/menopause symptoms (shout out to all of us Gen X gals). Then we dove into the studies using lavender to treat pain and inflammation. Needless to say, the data COMPLETELY blew us away! That’s when we knew our passion was using our lavender, and it’s essential oil, to help folks who struggle with the hard things we ourselves deal with. It really blossomed from there! We then considered other data driven ingredients that could work synergistically with our lavender essential oil, such as, CBD (Cannabidiol) in our Sweet Lavender Muscle and Joint Pain Cream as both lavender and CBD have very similar properties in regards to inflammation. We then
infused Magnesium into our bestselling Sleepy Cream, created out of necessity when I started having middle age sleep issues. We are currently deep in the weeds, working with other herbs, that will beautifully complement our lavender with the hopes to help with the hard stuff…anxiety, stress, sleep, pain and now we can add perimenopause to the list. The more we create our thoughtfully made goods, and hear that they are helping people……the more we are inspired to continue our lavender farm journey.