Lavendel Dame Lavender Farm

09/01/2026

08/30/2026

A beautiful morning complete with a sweet little spiderweb in our quirky planter! 💗🌞🕸️🕷️

08/20/2026

Slaphappy H**p Company in Rosebud MO is now stocked with our Lavender W**e Slush mixes!
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Choose from:
🍓 Raspberry
🫐 Blueberry
🍑 Peach

Easy to mix directly in the bag with your favorite dry or semi-dry white w**e — bonus points for using our local Missouri w**es! 💗

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08/17/2026

In early June, one of our honey bee hives split and swarmed — right over our lavender field! 🐝🪻

Luckily for us, they chose to settle at the base of one of our lavender plants, where we were able to catch the swarm and re-home them in a new hive box. 🏠

And even luckier… we caught the whole adventure on video! 🎥🐝

08/14/2026

We're on a quest for “Lavender Blossom Honey”! 🐝

We have been striving to produce lavender blossom honey since we established our lavender field three years ago. It turns out it's more complicated than just putting beehives beside a lavender field!

A honey described as a specific type of floral honey should have a substantial portion of its nectar from that flower. So... we've been DNA testing the pollen of our honey each season. 🐝🪻🍯

Results?
2024 -- No lavender -- but.... 27% persimmon blossom. This was a cool surprise! We have a fair amount of wild persimmon trees on our property although weren't expecting it in our honey!

2025 -- No lavender -- ....almost all clover

So this year we changed our approach. We decided not to harvest about 200 of our lavender plants and left them to bloom out for the bees to enjoy. And they were loaded with honey bees! So hopefully as our young lavender field has developed so has the lavender pollen in our honey. 🐝🪻🪻🪻

🤞 Fingers crossed — the 2026 honey testing results are pending. It takes about 4 to 6 weeks to get them. 💗

08/12/2026

We unfortunately didn’t get enough honey from our recent hive pull to make a batch of Lavender Infused Honey to sell --- so instead are sharing how to make your own. 🐝

Find good local honey, grab some culinary lavender, and here’s how we make ours.

🪻 First — the lavender REALLY matters.

We recommend using an English culinary lavender (Lavandula angustifolia). Our favorite is Royal Velvet! It does make a huge difference!

If you’ve ever tasted lavender food or drink and thought, “Well, that tastes like soap…” 😝 there’s a good chance the wrong variety of lavender was used. The French / lavandin varieties are wonderful for soaps, lotions and perfumes — but most not for food.

We’ve even seen lavender buds advertised online as simply “culinary lavender” without identifying the variety. Some visually appear to be varieties we personally wouldn’t choose for cooking. Technically, many lavenders are edible… but edible doesn’t necessarily mean delicious!

🍯 Lavender Infused Honey Recipe

2 Tbsp culinary lavender buds per 1 cup honey (or 1/2 cup buds per quart honey)

Warm the honey and lavender gently over LOW heat on the stovetop. Stir and watch closely — you want to just warm the honey, not overheat it.

Turn off the heat, cover and let it steep.

Every few hours, gently warm it again, turn off the heat and let it continue steeping.

Repeat over a day or two, depending on how strong you like the lavender flavor. We love it strong and so do so over 2 days.

Strain, jar & enjoy! 🍯

🪻 Need the right lavender?

Our culinary jars contain approximately ½ cup / 8 tablespoons of our Royal Velvet lavender buds — exactly enough for a quart of honey.

https://lavendeldame.com/shop-all/p/culinary-lavender-buds

And we definitely encourage you to find some wonderful local honey from a beekeeper near you! 🐝 💜

08/10/2026

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08/06/2026

Hummingbird moths are crazy cool!💗💗💗💗