How to Start A Lavender Farm

USLC 2021 - How to Start a Lavender Farm

Speaker: Dan & Nicole Callan

How to start a lavender farm starts with a few basics covering 6 topics that will include insights and team projects. In our two part series, How to Start a Farm we will explore together choosing your lavender, major aspects of planting on your farm, cover vision of what your farm will look like, look at products or types of events for your lavender farm. Followed through with a review of styles of business including wholesale, retail, events, and agritourism. Lastly we will talk about money, sales and marketing your business for your success in the industry.

How to Start A Lavender Farm: Part II

How to Start A Lavender Farm: Part II

Speaker: Dan & Nicole Callan

How to start a lavender farm starts with a few basics covering 6 topics that will include insights and team projects. In our two part series, How to Start a Farm we will explore together choosing your lavender, major aspects of planting on your farm, cover vision of what your farm will look like, look at products or types of events for your lavender farm. Followed through with a review of styles of business including wholesale, retail, events, and agritourism. Lastly we will talk about money, sales and marketing your business for your success in the industry.

Targeted Growing For The Success of Your Lavender Farm

USLC 2021 - Targeted Growing For The Success of Your Lavender Farm

Speaker: Joseph Downs

Join the Lavender Man, Joseph Downs to discover how ‘targeted growing’ is vital to the success of your lavender business. Topics being discussed will include best varieties to grow for landscaping, fresh & dried bundles, culinary and essential oil.

Revolutionary Essential Depot (R.E.D.) would like to visit your Lavender Farm. Soap Stands to CBD!

Revolutionary Essential Depot (R.E.D.) would like to visit your Lavender Farm. Soap Stands to CBD!

Speaker:  Derek Hodges

How to Build an Effective Website

USLC 2021 - How to Build an Effective Website

Speaker: Charlotte Smith

Virtual Events Q&A

USLC 2021 - Virtual Events Q&A

Speaker: Kera Wasserbach

Virtual Events are ANY events that you host online and they can transform your business. We'll cover the types of virtual events at any level and how to make them a success.

Producing Value Added Products

USLC 2021 - Producing Value Added Products

Speaker: Marilyn Kosel

Offering value added products can be a valuable part of your business strategy. Learn about what it takes to make products yourself as well as other options for extending your product line. We'll cover cost determination, facilities and equipment, pricing your products to make a profit, identifying your customers, and more.

GC Analysis of Essential Oils

USLC 2021 - GC Analysis of Essential Oils

Speaker: Kevin Dunn

This session will outline the procedure I use to determine which compounds are present in a given sample of an essential oil. This analysis allows the quality of an oil to be judged, and any adulteration to be flagged.

Why Should Lavender Farms Care About Honeybees?

USLC 2021 - Why Should Lavender Farms Care About Honeybees?

Speaker: Ted Maciejewski

Honeybees love lavender, but most lavender farmers do not love honeybees, but they should! Ted Maciejewski, a certified master beekeeper through the University of Montana, is going to be presenting about why honeybees are vital to lavender farms and what lavender farmers need to do in order to promote a healthy, cohesive “friendship” between lavender farmers and honeybees. Join this session to learn how to stop fighting the honeybees and start profiting from what they can do for your lavender instead!

Latest News of Phytophthora

USLC 2021 - Latest News of Phytophthora

Speaker: Dr. Steve Jeffers

In this session, Dr. Jeffers will review what we know about Phytophthora root and crown rot—an ongoing disease problem in the lavender industry. Then, he will discuss current and recent research projects on the potential for biofungicides to manage this disease and sampling lavender plugs for the pathogens. He will highlight research findings and tell growers how they can help move projects forward. Lastly, we will have an open discussion period so growers can ask questions.

Utilizing the USDA's Value Added Producer Grant (VAPG) to Grow Your Business

USLC 2021 - Utilizing the USDA's Value Added Producer Grant (VAPG) to Grow Your Business

Speakers: Allison Horseman & Mary May

Keeping Followers Engaged on Instagram

USLC 2021 - Keeping Followers Engaged on Instagram

Speaker: Shellie Watkins Ritzman

As I approached my 60th birthday, I never dreamed I would be expanding my love of gardening to start a boutique flower farm. For the last two decades, I have lived on a small lot in North Carolina surrounded by 100 year old farms. Over that period I’ve planted t rees, roses, peonies, herbs, lilacs and other perennials. I was inspired by learning that over 80% of the flowers purchased in the US are imported. But inspiration also came from the book Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden and so I decided to take their comprehensive Floret Workshop. Now, as we begin our third season, we have expanding our cut flower farm to include over 80 raised beds and hundreds of perennials. Our business model includes bouquet subscriptions, collaborative events both in the community and on the farm. It has been a wild ride, filled with failures and successes. But the happiness, comfort and touch of nature's beauty that flowers bring is unmistakable.

Opening Your Farm for a Year Round Revenue Stream

USLC 2021 - Opening Your Farm for a Year Round Revenue Stream

Speaker: Ellen Reynolds

Opening your farm to the public can be daunting. Agritourism has long been a way to att ract visitors to the farm and diversification is the key to running a sustainable business. There are countless opportunities to expand your season from a one day festival or even a 3 weekend U Pick, to generate revenue year round. Learn how to capitalize on your passions and capabilities to create that revenue st ream which lasts long after Lavender Season is over.

Lavender Festival: Planning for a Successful Event

USLC 2021 - Lavender Festival: Planning for a Successful Event

Speaker: Tina and David Duffy

This session will cover how to plan a successful Lavender Festival month by month and all the details that a farm might or should think about to be prepared. What are the unforeseen problems and how to avoid them? How do you control attendance? What worked and didn't work over the years of having festivals? Learn how to streamline the positives and avoid problems to creating the best successful lavender festival ever.

Introduction to Soapmaking

USLC 2021 - Introduction to Soapmaking

Speaker: Kevin Dunn

This session will demonstrate the materials and procedures used to turn oil into soap. Both Lavender buds and lavender oil may be incorporated into soap, thus giving growers a showcase for their crops.

Labeling 101

USLC 2021 - Labeling 101

Speaker: Allison Vought

Discover Lavender Series

Making Easy Cocktails and Mocktails with Sorva Lavender Syrup

USLC 2021 - Making Easy Cocktails and Mocktails with Sorva Lavender Syrup

Speaker: Courtney Obland

Come learn the many uses of lavender in drinks with easy recipes for home-sipping, including mocktails, cocktails, teas, coffees, and sodas. Have a fun, interactive chat with us as we demonstrate various drink recipes - audience participation and follow-along optional and encouraged. Lavender is a popular gourmet drink flavor - come join us and find out why!

Discover Lavender for Health and Beauty

USLC 2021 - Discover Lavender for Health and Beauty

Speaker: Janice Cox

The fresh clean scent of lavender has been used in cosmetics and skin care products since ancient times. Lavender smells good, improves your circulation, attracts pollinators to your yard, and helps you sleep, to name just a few reasons the popularity of this fragrant plant has never been higher. Learn how to create your own DIY body care products that can be used for hair care, skin care and in the bath. Tips, Recipes and Herbal Craft ideas will be shared.

Culinary Lavender Cook Along--From Field to Kitchen to Table