EXPERIENCE LAVENDER
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A little about Turquoise Trail Lavender Farm
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Turquoise Trail Lavender Farm is situated near Madrid, New Mexico just outside the town up on the mesa. We are a female disabled veteran owned farm.
Lavender is a low water use plant that thrives in our arid environment. We have almost 2900 plants in our fields. Organic lavender farming techniques enables us to further our preservation mission. We are truly concerned with preservation, and environmental concerns such as water conservation and soil structure. The lavender is harvested by hand to ensure the finest quality of bundles and dried lavender bud.
We have 80 % Grosso lavender on site due to it's high camphor rating. With our high elevation, 6200 feet, it makes the camphor even higher for the lavender. This allows the lavender to smell even sweeter for longer. It also gives a much better oil quality. 10% of our plants are Provence a culinary variety. We also have 10% Munstead that we added this year to see how it does at this elevation and if our clients like it's smell and product viability.
All lavender products are made on site and are available in the online farm store. Check out our Lavender Products Page if to see what we have available. We update the website often and add to the products page. We also list our items on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Turquoise-Trail-Lavender-Farm-428931034543845/
Lavender is a low water use plant that thrives in our arid environment. We have almost 2900 plants in our fields. Organic lavender farming techniques enables us to further our preservation mission. We are truly concerned with preservation, and environmental concerns such as water conservation and soil structure. The lavender is harvested by hand to ensure the finest quality of bundles and dried lavender bud.
We have 80 % Grosso lavender on site due to it's high camphor rating. With our high elevation, 6200 feet, it makes the camphor even higher for the lavender. This allows the lavender to smell even sweeter for longer. It also gives a much better oil quality. 10% of our plants are Provence a culinary variety. We also have 10% Munstead that we added this year to see how it does at this elevation and if our clients like it's smell and product viability.
All lavender products are made on site and are available in the online farm store. Check out our Lavender Products Page if to see what we have available. We update the website often and add to the products page. We also list our items on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Turquoise-Trail-Lavender-Farm-428931034543845/
About the Turquoise Trail Lavender Trail Name |
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When we moved here and bought the land and house, we didn’t really know what we were going to name our beautiful farm. However, the area has had a long history as the ‘Turquoise Trail’; in the area our name comes from the blue-green turquoise first mined by the early Pueblo people, an agrarian based society dwelling along the Rio Grande as early as 900 A.D., The stone has become nationally recognized as a precious stone to be set in silver and gold. The history we have chosen to honor while naming our intention for the farm, ourselves, and all who visit. By using Turquoise Trail, we hope that it honors the farm’s splendid history of the area while cultivating the fertile possibilities of the future. We hope to be a place where plants and people flourish and thrive.
How Turquoise Trail Lavender Farm StartedThe 55-acre Turquoise Trail Lavender Farm has been in the Winn family since 2018. The native vegetation in this “high desert” part of northern New Mexico consists of juniper trees, cedar trees, so many different varieties of cactus and tumbleweeds -- with some very pretty grasses and wildflowers after the summer rains. Lyric and I wanted to have the lavender and really thought that the soil was great because it was so rocky. We later learned it was nothing but caliche clay. So, we decided that our 6200-foot elevation would be just the ticket and we would amend the soil since the climate really suits the plants here.
We are very “green”, since we are totally “off the grid“. Our home runs on solar electricity and we will even have solar electricity in the hoop houses that are going in this summer. We garden organically -- we have never used and will never use any pesticides or herbicides. We do all the weeding required to keep our fields looking good by hand. We use soil conservation methods to keep the fields from having too much blow and to keep them from having a great deal of weeding. Lavender is a drought-tolerant plant but needs occasional irrigation in the summer. We use drip irrigation for our plants so that we do not have a great deal of water usage for our plants. Both of our well pumps are solar-powered. The first summer, the rabbits were so hungry that they literally ate most of our tiny plants to the ground! This is unheard of… But we have learned our lesson and have fenced in the farm and new plants and a new variety has been planted. We keep working to keep the farm growing and the plants blooming. We will add new plants in May and this year we will hopefully bring in beehives. It is great to have the lavender farm and we are excited to see where the farm will take us. Great beginnings! |
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Whether you’re looking for a bundle of lavender sprigs or a handful of culinary lavender, our selections will be sure to fit your needs. Our lavender farm is currently growing nearly 2500 lavender plants.
We sell fresh, in-season lavender bouquets, dried lavender field bundles, lavender buds, and lavender products. Peak bloom time for the lavender is typically early July or when Mother Nature decides, we will post the progress here and, on our Facebook, and Instagram pages. 
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You can now purchase lavender sachets in a set of 3 for $18.00 at the following link:
Madrid, New Mexico 87010 |
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