Interview: Founding the Lavender Farm

[Music] hey guys so we're with Barbara the proprietor of I country lag and we're up here in medicine damn what drew you to lavender farming tell me about your your past here a little bit I was looking for a niche business on the mountain yeah I wanted to get out of nursing and was in Washington state which is a very lots and lots of lavender in Washington yeah and I was there was I wonder if lavender will grow at 3,000 feet elevation yep on a farm that used to be a Christmas tree farm and five years later here we are nice nice so when I was growing up as a kid I remember driving by this farm and they were just Christmas trees everywhere and there's still some