Here we were last Friday …..

At Lorina’s Edible Garden potting plants and talking herbs. Lorina grows some unique herbs which we picked up for our garden the likes of cinnamon basil, greek oregano and rosemary, as ours didn’t take this year. She walked us through her organic herb garden and the kids were given permission to freely pick, smell and taste her organically grown plants. The boys, especially C (9) plotted to plant and talked shop with Lorina, she even seriously offered him a job to help her in her garden. Ummm, no. He’s mine thank you.

For those in my area, Lorina is down at our local farms market selling her plants if you don't want to drive all the way out to Escalon.

As the farming world turns, Mike figured out that he sold walnut trees to Lorina, her father and her grandfather who has since passed away.

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From there we went to a lavender farm. The farm was planted 6 years ago and opened to the public 2 years later. We use a lot, and I mean a lot of lavender oil around here. So my kids were intrigued by the different varieties and their use-ability.

C again picked out 3 varities of lavender (pictured) that he wanted for the garden. I requested it be planted in the first row, out side my bedroom window so I could wake up to its beauty.

Not too much to ask, I think.