Highlights: July 2005 Show

Lavender Fields Farm
Guest: Stan & Nicole Schermerhorn, Co-owners–A Thyme to Plant at Lavender Fields Farm
11300 Winfrey Road, Glen Allen, VA
(804) 262.7167
www.lavenderfieldsfarm.com

Lavender Fields Farm is a 22 acre herb farm featuring seven greenhouses and producing more than 200 varieties of herbs.

Features of the business include; wholesale and retail herb sales, a unique Gift Shop featuring herbal products, and a design and installation service called HerbScapes. Their herb and wildflower honey won first place at the 2004 Virginia State Fair.

While herbs can be annuals or perennials, most require full sun and well drained soil. These plants are excellent for container and raised bed gardens.

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
P.O. Box 460, Mineral VA 23117
(540) 894.9480 • Fax: (540) 894.9481
gardens@southernexposure.com
www.southernexposure.com

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange is a co-operatively owned business. The people who own and operate it live and work on the farm. Internships are available.

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange’s mission is to ensure that people retain control of their food supply, that genetic resources are conserved, and that gardeners have the option of saving their own seed.

To save your own seeds from year to year, store them in a ziplocked container in the freezer. Be sure to label them with variety and date.

Planting heirloom varieities allows you to choose plants that are adapted specifically to the Mid-Atlantic region. This means the plants are more likely to tolerate the hot summers, high humidity, uneven precipitation and numerous plant diseases common to the area.

Open-pollinated seeds do well under natural organic conditions, whereas hybrid varieties tend to do better under conditions of low stress, high fertilizer levels and intensive cultivation.