Go to the Colorado Lavender Festival

AARP members receive a 20 percent discount July 8-10 at the Colorado Lavender Festival in beautiful Palisade.

Enjoy a lavender-inspired weekend, filled with arts & crafts, food, wine, music, art exhibits, educational seminars, craft workshops, cooking demonstrations and much more. The fun starts at 9 a.m. on Saturday and runs until 4 p.m. Come back on Sunday for a self-guided farm tour at your leisure. It's all happening at Veterans Memorial Park, 120 W. 8th St. Palisade, CO 81526.

Tickets may be purchased at www.coloradolavender.org . AARP members and guests will receive a 20 percent discount.

Saturday Events:

Veterans Memorial Park, Palisade Festival opens at 9 a.m. closes; 4 p.m.

  9 - 9:50 a.m. ● Seminar 1 - History of Gardens

Location: Community Building

Speaker: Rick Spalenka

Rick Spalenka, the principal licensed landscape architect at RGS Designs, LLC, covers why we have gardens and their benefits. Many people associate gardens with veggies and do not know that the word "garden" is a slavic word meaning "fort" in the sense of "safety."

 

10 -10:50 a.m. ● Seminar 2 - Unlock the Secrets to Successful Gardening in Western Colorado


Location: Community Building

Speaker: Kathy Kimbrough

Kathy Kimbrough has been an active Master Gardener with Colorado State University Extension since 2001.  Her experience with the master gardener program lead her to create her own garden coaching and design business, Garden Scentsations, in 2006. Learn her secrets to a thriving garden!

 

10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. ● Art Show at Blue Pig Gallery

Location: Corner of Third & Main, Downtown Palisade Free event

 

10:30 -11:30 a.m. ● Wreath making with fresh lavender

Location: Outdoor Festival Tent

Susan Metzger, artist LC Sugar Farm, will show you how to make a beautiful wreath with fresh, local lavender. Fun for adults and kids ages 12 years and older.

 

11 - 11:50 a.m. ● Seminar 3

Location: Community Building Topic: TBA

Speaker: by Dennis Hill
11 a.m. - 2 p.m. ● Artist Signing Commemorative Posters

Location: LAWC tent Free event

 

Noon - 1 p.m. ● Cooking Demonstration

Location: Outdoor Festival Tent Free event

 

1 - 2 p.m. ● Cooking Demonstration

Location: Outdoor Festival Tent

Free event

 

2 - 2:50 p.m. ● Seminar 4 - Lavender & Midwifery

Location: Community Building

Speaker: Irene Ann Garden

Learn how lavender is used to calm and soothe during pregnancy. Irene Ann Garden has worked with a variety of cultural groups from Ethiopia, Asia to Native America, to Orthodox Jew, African America as well as indigenous peoples of Latin America and Hispanic women from New Mexico. She has listened to these women and learned the wisdom in the old ways of their grandmothers. Today, scientific data is supporting many of these traditional ways for pain relief and serenity.

 

3 - 4 p.m. ● Wreath making with fresh lavender

Location: Outdoor Festival Tent

Susan Metzger, artist LC Sugar Farm, will show you how to make a beautiful wreath with fresh, local lavender. Fun for adults and kids ages 12 years and older.

 

3 - 3:50 p.m. ● Seminar 5 - Lavender & Reflexology

Location: Community Building

Speaker: Susan Smith

Grab a partner and learn how to give each other healthful and soothing foot rubs with lavender. Our vendors will have lavender oils and creams available for purchase. Plan on bringing an oil, cream, or lotion to the seminar.

 

Sunday, July 10 Self-Guided Farm Tours

Spend your day enjoying the participating lavender farms at your leisure. Farms and businesses from Delta County have joined with us to expand your horizons! A list of participating farms and maps will be available in the program.

 

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