Visit Sequim, Washington, the Lavender Capital of North America® to celebrate the 12th annual Sequim Lavender Festival, Friday, July 18 - Sunday, July 20, 2008, sponsored by the Sequim Lavender Growers Association. With Eight Farms on Tour and one fantastic Street Fair, it is like Nine Festivals in One. Set in the breathtaking Sequim-Dungeness Valley when the purple blossoms are bursting, this three-day festival is the largest lavender event in North America and voted one of the Top 100 Events by the American Bus Association.
The Eight Farms on Tour open their fields and their hearts to visitors, offering a variety of atmospheres, many lavender activities and acres of lavender fields with more than 100,000 plants. Attend workshops, demonstration, and horticultural programs. Learn about lavender, how it is grown, harvested, and turned into dozens of different products using dried blossoms or steam-distilled lavender oil. Each farm offers a unique experience as visitors spend time in the fields, pick lavender, and enjoy food, beverages, entertainment, and northwest crafts. Discover what makes each farm distinct and have your questions answered at the Meet-the-Farmers sessions, or take in this year’s new culinary program on Sunday. Tickets are $15 and provide admission to all of the Eight Farms on Tour, with children 12 and under admitted free. There is plenty of free parking at all farms. Shuttle bus service, providing transportation between the Street Fair and each of the Eight Farms on Tour, is free with your farm tour ticket.
The Street Fair in downtown Sequim is a festival in itself, with more than 150 juried vendors, fine music, great Northwest foods, and Olympic Peninsula wine tasting. Premier lavender and lavender products are proudly offered by the members of the Sequim Lavender Growers Association.
Sequim is located on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula cradled in the “Rain Shadow” of the Olympic Mountains and the world-famous Olympic National Park. The Sequim-Dungeness Valley has an ideal microclimate for growing lavender. With less than 20 inches of rain per year, the area is similar to the Provence region of France. Sequim lavender has received national recognition and the farmers have over 200 years of combined experience cultivating lavender, determining ideal varieties, developing the best planting and growing practices, and creating lavender products.
For more information including transportation, accomodations, and directions please contact us by e-mail at info@lavenderfestival.com, website at www.lavenderfestival.com, or by telephone at (877) 681-3035 (toll free).
The Festival is proudly sponsored by the Sequim Lavender Growers Association (SLGA), a nonprofit community of farmers, committed to knowledge of how to grow better lavender in an environmentally sustainable way.
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Sequim Lavender Festival 105 ½ E. 1st Street Port Angeles, WA 98362 (877) 681-3035