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Earth Dance for Peace
and the environment here at La Paix on Saturday, September 18th Noon to
5 p.m. Bring picnic lunch. More information on Earth Dance around the world http://www.earthdancepeacewatch.com/ The Last Lavender Day was held July 10, 2010
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Earth
Dance for Peace and the environment here at La Paix on Saturday,
September 18th Noon to 5 p.m. Bring picnic lunch. More information on Earth Dance around the world http://www.earthdancepeacewatch.com/ First Photos of Lavender Day - click here
For coverage of Lavender
Day,
click here for local TV coverage - WBOY-TV |
  La Paix will no longer be open for tours, workshops or Fairs/Special Days. We hope you continue to watch the website for photos of La Paix's beautiful gardens, fields and woods and news of new and old favorites among our herbal products. "I have been privileged to have so many interesting, creative and vibrant people come and visit La Paix and I thank you each and every one for your presence and your contributions. I will continue to accept apprentices who can attend during the day and will continue to sell my products." Peace, Myra Bonhage-Hale, Steward, La Paix Herb Farm |
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News! February 12, 2010: Just received news that I Myra, steward of La Paix, will be presenting at the National Conference of the American Society of Dowsers in Lyndon Vermont in early June. Subject: When Your Labyrinth Goes Pear Shaped.
Click on link above to see history of La Paix's Labyrinth. I'm excited to be going with my former apprentice, Rebekah Ceron, and staying with my Cousin Bambi Murphy Miller, who will also be presenting
Kate and Helen, former
apprentices, posing at the Bathtub in the Garden -
For photos of La Paix Gardens in
July,
Back in Stock!
For workshop and tour information,
Sheila McEntee, Editor of the Wild
Wonderful
The first of many snows of the
winter of 2008 - 2009 at La Paix (from the front door) The line
allows me to fill the birdfeeders from the upstairs porch!
La Paix Peony - Myra Bonhage Hale, painter
Scheduled Exhibits of
my paintings 2008-2009: |
La Paix Gardens Spring 2010 -
Photos of La Paix's Gardens early, spring, annual decorating of the
bathtub in the garden and Wisteria blooming. Plus archeological
dig yields hand cut stones in backyard.
Photos of Lavender Fair 2009
Lily in the Feng Shui Garden
For more photos of La Paix's Gardens and
Woods in 2008, click here
Paintings of La Paix's gardens and flowers by
of my art Apprentice Program 2010 - I will be
taking only day trippers as apprentices (those who can commute from
home) in 2010. Please click here for apprentice
information and application. |
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La Paix Herb Farm's
Passionate
Gardener's Hand Cream was featured in the
September 2006 Herb Companion Magazine. (Product Page)
To
order, click here |
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What is La Paix Herb Farm? La Paix (means Peace in French) is the dream of it's Steward, Myra Bonhage-Hale. A dream which began in Baltimore in the late 1970's. A dream which led to buying an abandoned farm and farmhouse in the heart of West, by God, Virginia in 1981. Nestled in the surrounding hills, like a baby in a papoose, La Paix has become a place of many gardens, much laughter, learning and peace. Now 110 acres of gardens, homestead, woods, caves, creeks, wildlife, fauna and sylvan paths, it is a sanctuary and an inspiration to others who dream of a home in the country. |
| The homestead has been approved by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History as a National Historic Registered site. An Apprentice Program has been in effect since 1999. Students from colleges near and far have been able to apply for college credits in Environmental Science and Environmental Education as part of their experience at La Paix. |
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This photo shows three
children astride the work horse used at La Paix in about 1940.
May/Kraus homestead in about 1940. They are in front of the
root cellar, the bottom of which is hand cut stone chiseled out of rocks
on the hill by the Mays, stone masons, who lived here from about 1870 to
1890. Photo submitted by Pat Meyer, relative of the original
builders of the cabin and pioneer stewards of the land. |
| Shown on the right is a
scene from
one of La Paix's many gardens.
This is known as the Big Fragrant Garden. The tub is used at the
end of a warm day - it is very
relaxing to bathe and admire the gardens and fields of wild
flowers. This garden has
lavender, lemon balm, peppermint, and other fragrant herbs. Other
gardens include The Silver Labyrinth,
the Feng Shui Garden (photos of gates on
either side of title of this page),
the organic vegetable garden, medicinal herbs, culinary herbs, the
Psychic Tree by the Pond Sanctuary and the
Japanese Tea House. Three long rows of Grosso lavender by the
driveway welcome visitors. Many pavilions were erected in 2004 to bedeck
the gardens and shelter booths at the
Lavender Fair and
New Moon Pizza Fair.
Reunion Group meets for a tour of the family homestead (May/Kraus) at La Paix May 24, 2008. |
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Photos ©by R. Tom
Sizemore |
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Web Site Design by Myra Bonhage-Hale, Steward, La Paix Herb Farm
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