Starting the New Year Fresh!

We here at Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm are hitting the ground running this new year, with the first of our gorgeous Italian Ranunculus starting to bloom!

We noticed it poking out of the ground after we finished cleaning out the spent Cosmos in the upper field behind the farmstand, doesn't it look nice and clean out there?

The Provence is really starting to gets its winter coat going as well. Look at how fresh and green those shoots are looking!

Thankfully, no one should be messing with any of the lavender in the field, thanks to the watchful eye of Santa Barbara Counties cutest gaurd trio!

There is plenty of amazing shot to take even in the offseason, come and sign up for a farm tour here if you are curious about all that's happening around the farm!

What A Wonderful Year We've Had!

As Christmas slowly marches towards us, we at Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm are taking a much needed bit of rest and reflect on what an amazing year we had this year!

July was such a wonderful time here on the farm, we met a ton of amazing folks who came to stop by the farmstand, and put on plenty of amazing events for all the guests to came to visit our small corner of paradise here in Santa Barbara County. This year has been an incredible blessing, being able to open to the public and show off all the hard work we’ve managed to accomplish has made us realize there is still plenty more work to do!

Looking towards the future, Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm plans to continue to invest all our effort into making the land even more beautiful, while also revamping the website and planning a more regular event schedule here on the farm. Be sure to watch out for any updates, and know that we here at Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm love and cherish all of those that helped get us to where we are today! Thanks and looking forward to seeing you in the new year!

Last Week For The Festival Of Lights!

There’s less than two weeks until Christmas, and Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm is celebrating the holiday season at the Santa Ynez Botanical Garden’s Holiday Lights Festival, and we can be safe to say that the botanical garden has outdone themselves this year, look at these light displays!

We’re so happy we decided to take the farmstand on the road this month to be apart of what is sure to be another great holiday festival here in Santa Barbara County! This is the final weekend for the light display, so be sure to check it out in person, the pictures are amazing but seeing it in person is even better! We hope to see you there, and from Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm ,have a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The Holiday Season is Here!

Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm is so excited, once again it is the holiday season, we personally enjoy all of the festive decorations we set up around the farmstand, but it seems everywhere you go now in Santa Barbara County is another amazing holiday display! Our favorite local display is by the Santa Ynez Botanical Gardens, last year they started doing a Holiday Lights Festival with a Santa and reindeer and ended up being such a blast we decided to do it again this year!

The marshmallow roasting along with Santa and his Reindeer will be in attendance both Saturdays and Sundays, along with all sorts of fun rides for the kids and even snow machines to make the place feel like a winter wonderland! This year's holiday display is better than ever, here are some pictures from last year's festival to see what you missed out on!

From Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm, we hope everyone has an amazing holiday and hope to see you at the event!

See you at Sunstone Holiday Market!

Santa Rita Hills Lavender last year missed out on Sunstone's Holiday Market last year, so we made sure to make a spot at one of Santa Ynez Valley's preeminent wineries!

Sunstone has built a brand new VIP area, and we will be up their with all our other local friends like Gaia Farms aand The Barreled Bee Company, so their should be plenty of choices for local Santa Barbara County goods for your holiday shopping this season!

Visit Us At The Koehler Market!

As the holidays slowly draw closer, Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm is bringing the farmstand on the road once again!

This Saturday we will be at the Koehler Winery Holiday Market; this will be the first of these markets at Koehler, but it’s shaping up to be a great time for all in the Santa Barbara County area! We will unfortunately be close on Saturday November 18th. Don’t worry though, we will be open Sunday, November 18th from 11am - 4pm, if you cant see us Saturday, be sure to stop by Sunday to pick up some great holiday gifts!

Get Ready For the Holidays!

It’s the holiday season once again, and we at Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm feel this year has just flown by! We hope that everyone has an amazing Thanksgiving celebration, but its important to remember Christmas is right around the corner!

That being said, we will be taking the farmstand on the road, first stopping at the Koehler Winery Holiday Market on November 18th. Next, we’ll be stopping at Sunstone Wineries’ Holiday Market on December 2nd and 3rd, and finally we'll be at the Enchanted Lights at SYV Botanic Garden on December 8th- 10th and the following week from the 15th- 17th.

The Enchanted Lights at the SYV Botanical Garden is especially popular amongst the Santa Barbara County community, why not stop by and do your holiday shopping before it’s too late!

New Tools Make Us Smile! 😃

It's been a busy week here at Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm, we just got in the mail our new Besel Lavender Processing Machine, all I can say is it's gonna make work around the farmstand go even faster!

This piece of equipment takes the lavender buds straight off the bundle while removing dust and sorting out any of the debris to give you just the bud itself, don’t take my word for it, watch it do its thing!

Once it finishes, this is the result that we are left with! Now we'll take the bud and use it in all the great local Santa Barbara County products you know and love!

Here's another look at how the machine sorts and separates, truly an amazing piece of equipment!

See You In Los Olivos!

Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm is taking the farmstand on the road yet again, setting up shop at Day In The Country in Los Olivos on October 21st!

It's sure to be blast, stop by and see us to show your support! If you can't make it though, no worries, we will be open Fiday October 20th and Sunday October 22 d, be sure to come by and check out what's happening at Santa Barbara Counties premier lavender farm!

Lavender Cocktails?!! Yes, Please!

Today we had one of our new friends stop by Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm to pick up some culinary lavender from the farmstand, Justine from The Tipsy Wagon!

Justine is a wonderful lady who runs a mobile bar out of a converted horse trailer, its pretty amazing, and so are the cocktails she makes!

If you've got an event to do in the Santa Barbara area, be sure to check them out they do some amazing work!

Always Fun Meeting A New Friend!

Now that we are in the offseason here at Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm, we’ve been hard at work harvesting, processing, and distilling all our lavender while cleaning up the upper field, ain’t no rest for the wicked, as it were!

While we've been working around the farmstand, we happened to be contacted by a local wildlife photographer named Deborah Kalas, and the photos she has been taking are simply stunning! Here's a sampling from the first day she came to take pictures.

This first smattering of Goldfinch photos was amazing but Deborah came a little later in the day and around this part of Santa Barbara County the birds start to head home, so she came back again and got these photos! Simply breathtaking the one of the two finches with the seed!

If you would like to see more of Deborah's beautiful shots, check out her instagram at dkalas_art or just go to her website! We've been enjoying the heck our of the shots she's done, be sure to check out our Instagram as well as we get new shots!

We’re Moving Into The Offseason!

Now that Labor Day has come and gone, we're moving to our off-season hours here at Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm!

If you want to come by the farmstand for your seasonal bouquets or the farmstand give us a shout too, we'll be happy to help! 😊

Now our hours of business have moved to just Saturday and Sunday from 11am-4pm, but worry not! If you're in the Santa Barbara County Area and can't make it during our business hours, give us a call or contact us here and we'll see what we can do about letting you have the field to yourself!

New Things This September!

Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm is set to keep the fun going, even as we begin to head into the offseason here in Santa Barbara County. To start with, we have partnered with our good friend and local winemaker Amber Hogan to show off some of her creations at For the Love Of Wine at Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm!

This will be our first local winemaker showing off their wine here by the farmstand and its sure to be an amazing time, be sure to RSVP soon!

Amber’s message to those who wish to come, “Enjoy some wine and nibbles in the most amazing lavender field the Santa Rita Hills has to offer! Please wear comfortable shoes. Contact me for questions by phone at (805)734-7197 or by email at hoganamber@ymail.com.”

What An Amazing Moment!

WOW, look at who decided to take a load off and snooze on a pomegranate branch at Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm!

This little Hummingbird took the opportunity to relax at the most serene little lavender farm in Santa Barbara County, and we certainly appreciate the chance to snap some great video!

When you get the chance be sure to stop by the farmstand and snap your perfect pic, open everyday except Tuesday from 10am - 5pm until August 31st then we will be switching to offseason hours, and will be open on Saturday and Sunday from 11am - 4pm.

Busy, Busy, Busy!

The fun doesn’t stop at Santa Rita Hills Lavender Farm, we’ve been adding to the property one step at a time!

Suffice it to say, new things are happening around the farm all the time, like the new Seed Saver 101 class taught by owner and Master Gardener Denise is coming up on August 20th, be sure to sign up now before spots fill up!

The biggest change this month has to be the new chicks we just received in the mail, we got a dozen New Jersey Giants and half a dozen Lavender Orbingtons, so cute!

I mean, listen to them peep away! Adorable, truly a great addition to the farm , soon enough we'll have more eggs to sell in the Santa Barbara County area!