Friday, February 18, 2011

Sequim Lavender Festival 'Lavender in the Park'

Everybody who loves Sequim, loves the Lavender Festival. It's big fun for Sequim visitors and great business for Sequim town. And we, the regular Sequim residents not involved in selling lavender but just growing our own lavender bushes in our front and back yards, enjoy the biggest events 'Sequim Lavender Festival' each year as well.

Sequim Lavender FarmIn our recent Sequim town blog post, we mentioned that this 2011 Lavender Festival will be different. Well, the Peninsula Daily News had it all put together for us in their recent article about the the 'Lavender in the Park' group. That was definitely an interesting article!

Here is what will be different at this 2011 Sequim Lavender Festival:

The newly formed Sequim Lavender Farmers Association named its Lavender Festival 'Lavender in the Park', which already indicates that they will have their events at 'Carrie Blake Park', 'Guy Cole Community Center' and the stage of 'James Center for the Performing Arts'. They new 'Lavender in the Park' Lavender Farmers group will offer the tour buses to the 6 Sequim Lavender Farms, which formed the new group, among them such wellknown Lavender Farms as Purple Haze Lavender and Jardin du Soleil Lavender, just to name two.

The original lavender festival organization 'Sequim Lavender Growers Association' will continue its street fair on Fir Street near downtown as they did for the last 15 years, but won't have guided farm tours to the Lavender farms.

Read the full Peninsula Daily News article about the 2011 Sequim Lavender Festival.

Basically it looks like we will be having two Sequim Lavender Festivals this year. Seems like we all will benefit of the ongoing competition between the two groups because I just read on this announcement by the Sequim Lavender Growers Association that their farm tours will be FREE this year. Sequim Lavender Festival visitors for July 15 - 17 event will love it! I even heard that the buses to the 6 lavender farms will be FREE but that still needs to be confirmed.