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Victor’s celebrates Sequim Lavender Festival with Victor’s Lavender Celebration!
ALWAYS FREE ADMISSION EVERY DAY!
Victor, Maribel & Christian Gonzalez Invite You Enjoy the Sequim Lavender Weekend Experience on our Family Farm
The whole valley is beautiful on Sequim Lavender Festival Weekend but there is a unique Sequim Lavender Experience waiting for you at Victor’s Lavender Farm! This working lavender farm is known throughout the world… he’s the farmer who supplies the other farms with gorgeous lavender…and Victor and his professional staff will be here not only help you pick out your plants but to show you how to care for and grow robust lavender at your home or at your new lavender farm. Workshops, lavender products, music, food, and one of the most knowledgeable farmers in the country…this is the place to be. Spend the day with the “family” of Victor and Maribel Gonzalez and enjoy our hospitality, friendship, and knowledge.
Enjoy the “Sequim Lavender Festival Experience” all summer long at these great farms.
Hours
Extended weekend hours:
- Friday 10am-10pm — Barn Dance with Joy in Mudville 7pm-10pm
- Saturday-Sunday 10am-6pm
Plants for Sale
We will have thousands of plants for sale. As one of the largest plant propagators in North America, we have the choice and selection you desire. And if you want fresh cut lavender, you can cut it in the fields, or we will cut if for you (same price) so you have the freshest lavender possible.
Learning
Victor will be here at the farm all weekend. When not conducting workshops you’ll be able to find him wandering the fields and chatting with visitors. A great opportunity to meet one of North America’s foremost lavender experts. Along with Victor’s workshops, Susan Harrington, CEO (Chief Education Officer as she likes to call it) of Labyrinth Hill Lavender will be joining us all weekend.
Do you want to start a lavender farm? This is where to start. Victor’s has helped more than 300 farms throughout North America and in other countries including Morocco and Mexico.
Lavender Experts Help You Out
We have lavender experts on hand throughout the weekend to answer all of your questions—real time with real experts. There is no one in the valley who has this much knowledge and experience and they are ready to assist you.
Drying Barn
We have one of the only drying barns in the valley where you can wander in and smell more than 6,000 hanging bundles – there is nothing like this smell to capture your senses! (and come to the Friday night barn dance and party under the lavender).
FREE Friday Barn Dance
Friday 7pm-10 pm – Barn Dance with Joy in Mudville! Join us in the barn, surrounded by drying lavender, with one of our greatest bands. Food and beverages are available for purchase throughout the evening. Victor and Maribel produce this free dance to thank the community for your support over the years. FREE ADMISSION!
Products
Maribel manages the production of a fantastic line of lavender-based products made right here on the farm with the assistance of Beth Norris and Barb Landbeck of Moosedreams Lavender. Specializing in sought-after goat milk lotions and spectacular hand-shaped goat’s milk soap, our products feature year-round skin care. You can order our products year-round online, both wholesale and retail.
Why goat’s milk for skincare?
Goat’s milk is rich in essential fatty acids and triglycerides. The essential fatty acids have a unique PH similar to humans, so it is less irritating and more easily absorbed by our skin. These fatty acids and triglycerides are super moisturizing. But there’s more! Goat’s milk contains precious skin minerals like selenium and is loaded with vitamins, particularly vitamin A, the most important vitamin for the skin. Goat’s milk has unique nourishing properties that make it the perfect ingredient to add to anything which touches your skin. It is both an anti-aging wonder and a lifesaver for dry and sensitive skin.
Lavender fields
We have over 5,000 gorgeous lavender plants in our fields around the farm
On the Menu – Tamales and Lavender Sausages
What a treat! Maribel Gonzalez is making her family recipe tamales!
Uli’s sausages in the Pike Place Market makes amazing sausages for us which we offer along with great lavender desserts. Enjoy some lavender lemonade or bring a picnic and spread out on the farm for a personal experience.
- Maribel’s handmade tamales with chips and salsa
- Seattle’s World Famous Uli’s Lavender Sausages, with grilled onions
- Lavender shortbread cookies
- Lavender ice cream
- Lavender popsicles
- Lavender lemonade
- DRY’s Sparkling Lavender Soda
Wine and Beer Garden
The ultimate relaxation – a glass of wine, beer, hard cider, lavender lemonade and other beverages, savoring the aromatic scent of lavender in the drying barn, enjoying the farm atmosphere, and listening to great music – heaven at Victor’s! We will be featuring Camaraderie Cellars, Olympic Cellars, Finnriver Ciders, DRY Sparkling Lavender Soda, and ice cold Corona, Rainier and Silver City regional micro-brew.
Lavender Workshops (reference 2019 workshop details below)
Friday, July 19
11-12:30 a.m. Victor Gonzalez – Pests, diseases, fertilization.
12:30-2:00 p.m. Susan Harrington – Lavender is more than a color
2-3:30 p.m. Victor Gonzalez – Pests, diseases, fertilization.
3:30-5:00 p.m. Susan Harrington – Lavender is more than a color
Saturday, July 20
11-12:30 a.m. Victor Gonzalez – Pests, diseases, fertilization.
12:30-2:00 p.m. Susan Harrington – Lavender is more than a color
2-3:30 p.m. Victor Gonzalez – Pests, diseases, fertilization.
3:30-5:00 p.m. Susan Harrington – Lavender is more than a color
Sunday, July 21
11am-12:30pm Victor Gonzalez– Propagation, planting, fertilization
1:30-3pm Victor Gonzalez – Pests, diseases, fertilization
Lavender Oil Distillation
Daily lavender oil distillation demonstrations will fill the air with the lovely fragrance of lavender!
Distillation Demonstrations featured throughout the weekend. Daily times not to be missed are:
- 11am-11:20
- 1pm-1:20
- 3pm-3:20
Make a Lavender Wreath Class
Christian Gonzalez
Christian Gonzalez (son of Victor and Maribel) will be sharing his wreath making skills. You can make your own lavender wreath throughout the weekend, under Christian’s guidance. We provide all the supplies including freshly cut lavender from Victor’s fields — or you can cut your own.
We also have freshly made wreaths for purchase.
Music and Dance at Victor’s Lavender Celebration!
Friday 1-4pm – The Mike Klinger B3 Organ Group
The Mike Klinger B3 Organ Jazz Group is made up of the very best jazz musicians on the Olympic Peninsula. These seasoned professionals include Mike Klinger on B3 Organ/piano, Tom Svornich on Drums, Ted Enderle on bass, and Ed Donahue on trumpet. Combined, these musicians put in well over 100 years of experience. Although they play some great renditions of the standards, a lot of the music is original music composed by Mike. This includes stylings in Latin, swing, ballads, and funk. Something for everyone here.
Friday 7-10pm – Joy in Mudville – Port Angeles –
Not to be missed! Friday 7-10pm – Joy in Mudville barn dance. Free!
Joy In Mudville combines influences from old-time bluegrass, folk, rock, country, blues, and funk. Whether an original tune, a driving barn-burner, some roots-rock or one of many Grateful Dead covers, their music is super-high-energy with tight harmonies, clever arrangements, and grooves that make you wanna bust out those dancin’ shoes. www.JoyInMudvilleBand.com
Saturday 10am-12:30pm – Yesango Marimba Ensemble – Port Townsend –
Yesango Marimba Ensemble
Since 1997 Yesango Marimba Ensemble has delighted audiences with the intricate rhythms of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. This infectious music has fans up and dancing to traditional songs and compositions by contemporary musicians, including members of Yesango. www.yesangomarimba.com
Saturday 12pm-4pm – Chez Jazz with Sarah Shea – Port Angeles
Sarah Shea and Chez Jazz is an upbeat jazz/funk fusion band with saxophone, drums, bass, piano, and vocals. Based in Port Angeles, Sarah has performed throughout the Northwest, was a finalist in the Kobe Jazz Competition at Jazz Alley in Seattle and has played on American Cruise Lines for the past 7 years.
Sunday 2-3pm – Family Folk dancing with Lynne Clark – Learn simple international folk dances from Croatia, Serbia, Switzerland, Mexico, Greece and the US.
Sunday 3-4pm – The Dancing Grandmas – Watch the Dancing Grandmas spin to exotic Silk Road tales & fast paced Gypsy beats
Dogs – Your dogs are welcome on the farm as long as they are on a leash. Please clean-up after your dogs.
Sequim Lavender Weekend
Victor’s Lavender is part of Sequim Lavender Weekend, as the entire valley celebrates the world of lavender. For more information about weekend events go to www.visitsunnysequim.com
Let Victor tell you some of what you can expect!
Enjoy the “Sequim Lavender Experience” all summer long at these great farms.
