Like the plants it celebrates, Sequim Lavender Weekend continues to grow each year.
Nineteen farms host visitors this weekend, July 20-22, with live music, U-pick, food and drinks and more events throughout the Sequim area.
Of the 19 farms on tour, 16 open for free to visitors.
Sequim Lavender Festival Farm Tour open 10 a.m.- 5:30 p.m.
• Blackberry Forest, 136 Forest Road
• Earth Muffin Lavender, 2333 Woodcock Road
• Fat Cat Garden & Gifts, 21 Fat Cat Lane
• Graysmarsh Farm, 6187 Woodcock Road
• Kitty B’s Lavender Farm, 82 Cameron Acres Lane
• Meli’s Lavender, 62 W. Diane Drive
• Nelson Duckpond & Lavender Farm, 73 Humble Hill Road
• Peninsula Nurseries, 1060 Sequim-Dungeness Way
• Troll Haven, 950 Gardiner Beach Road
More free admission farms:
• B&B Family Farm, 5883 Old Olympic Highway; open 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Lost Mountain Lavender, 1541 Taylor Cutoff Road; open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
• Martha Lane Lavender, 371 Martha Lane; open 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., (till 3 p.m. Sunday)
• Sunshine Herb & Lavender Farm, 274154 U.S. Highway 101; open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. (till 5 p.m. Sunday)
• The Lavender Connection, 1141 Cays Road; open 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Victor’s Lavender, 3743 Old Olympic Highway; open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
• Washington Lavender, 965 Finn Hall Road; open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Pay to visit farms:
• Purple Haze Lavender keeps tradition with its Purple Haze Daze, 180 Bell Bottom Lane, starting at 10 a.m. for $15 pre-sale and $18 at the gate. Children 12 and under are free. Free shuttle from Carrie Blake Community Park. Purplehazelavender.com.
• Jardin du Soleil, 3832 Sequim-Dungeness Way, and Olympic Lavender Heritage Farm, 1532 Marine Drive, continue their two-for-one $10 admission per person to both farms all weekend. Children 12 and under remain free to enter. Free shuttle from Carrie Blake Community Park. www.jardindusoleil.com, facebook.com/olympiclavender.
For more information on all lavender weekend events, visit www.sequimlavender weekend.com and look for the Sequim Gazette/Peninsula Daily News’ “Sequim Lavender Weekend” guide at all the farms, local businesses, the Visitor’s Information Center, and Street Fair Information Booth.
Shuttle
A shuttle runs from Sequim Middle School, Sequim High School, Sequim Lavender Festival Street Fair in Carrie Blake Park, Second Avenue and Washington Street from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday.
Street Fair
Organizers of the Sequim Lavender Festival’s Street Fair anticipated construction to begin this year, hence why it was moved to Carrie Blake Community Park. However, construction was delayed but organizers pressed on and now feature more than 150 vendors, live music from the James Center for Performing Arts bandshell, and nearby accommodations for dogs at the Sequim Dog Park and at the fair, and a Kids Zone area.
Visitors can park for free in the Blake lot used for the Sequim Irrigation Festival’s Logging Show and use a free shuttle. They can also park Friday and Saturday at Trinity United Methodist Church and after church on Sunday. The fair also features a celebrity photo booth with Sequim Mayor Dennis Smith and other dignitaries and a lavender scavenger hunt with prizes.
It runs 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, www.lavenderfestival.com.
A few other Sequim area events:
• Art Jam 2018: 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Friday-Sunday, Rock Hollow Farm, 505 E. Silberhorn Road, rockhollowarts.com.
• Olympic Driftwood Sculptors: 10 a.m.-5p.m. Friday-Sunday, Sequim Middle School cafeteria, 301 W. Hendrickson Road, olympicdriftwoodsculp tors.org.
• Puffin Marine Cruise: 6:30 p.m.-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, John Wayne Marina, 2577 West Sequim Bay Road. dungenessrivercenter.org.
• Sequim Farmers Market: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Sequim Civic Center Plaza, 152 W. Cedar St., sequimmarket.com.
• Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Show: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Sequim Middle School, 301 W. Hendrickson Road, sunbonnetsuequilt club.org.
• Victor’s Barn Dance with Joy in Mudville: 7-10 p.m., Friday, Victor’s Lavender Farm, 3743 Old Olympic Highway, victorslavender.com.
Children’s Theatre
OTA’s Children’s Theatre program performs “The Phantom Tollbooth” Aug. 31-Sept. 9 and show off their costumes and perform selections from the show at the Sequim Lavender Festival’s Street Fair noon-2 p.m. Saturday, July 21, in Carrie Blake Community Park. For more information on the show, visit OlympicTheatreArts.org or call 360-683-7326.
Class and Sass benefit set at casino
On Friday, July 20, Class and Sass III brings 11 drag queen performers from across the country for another Lavender Weekend to perform from 8-11 p.m. at 7 Cedars Casino, 270756 US Highway 101, as a benefit for the Sequim Food Bank. Tickets cost $15 through brownpapertickets.com or $20 at the door with raffle baskets/tickets available. Sequim native Jimmy Tilley (Miz Eva Sensitiva) helped develop the event. Last year it raised $6,000 for the Food Bank.
Soroptimists partner with vineyards
Soroptimist International of Sequim will sell Port Townsend Vineyards wine at the Lost Mountain Lavender Farm 1541 Lost Mountain Road as a fundraiser on Friday-Saturday, July 20-21.
Lavender lemonade and Port Townsend Vineyards Discovery White and Red will be available with proceeds supporting Soroptimist’s efforts to empower and support women and girls in Sequim and Clallam County. For more information, contact, membership@sisequim.org, write “Soroptimist International of Sequim, PO Box 126, Sequim, WA. 98382,” or visit http://sisequim.org/.
Reach Matthew Nash at mnash@sequimgazette.com.
One-year-old Elijah Espinoza helps his mom Lala Espinoza smell the lavender at Victor’s Lavender Farm in 2017. Sequim Gazette file photo by Matthew Nash
This year, the Sequim Lavender Festival’s Street Fair moves to Carrie Blake Community Park and its LavenderStock stage plays from the James Center for Performing Arts main stage. Sequim Gazette file photo by Erin Hawkins
