Walking barefoot through a field neatly planted with rows of lavender plants, Laura Brittingham promised, her long dress billowing in the wind, that this is not what farming always looks like for her ...

SEATTLE – Long after her final customer walked off the fields every August, Ivy Cheung found herself staring at the deep purple lavender plants that lined her 1-acre farm in serene Fall City, ...

Jenny Steineger strips the extra leaves from the stems of lavender plants. The Steinegers are part of a wave of nontraditional farmers in Kansas and Missouri who taking chances on niche crops — ...

When life gets stressful one of the oldest tried and true remedies comes from the calming scent of flowers. Lavender is at the top of that list and when it’s an entire field of lavender it can waft ...

Simpsonville, Kentucky — Just a mile past the bustling Outlet Shoppes of the Bluegrass in Simpsonville, Kentucky is a lavender oasis marked with a statue of a purple horse. A baroque sign reads ...