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Original art 3 Irises Myra Bonhage-Haleİ |
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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.
Please click here for former apprentice comments
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Lavender Hydrosol:
Calming to the mind; spritz on pillow for sleep. I use it to spray
whenever someone sneezes or coughs nearby and on handles of shopping
carts. 8 oz. blue cobalt plastic bottle with spray top: $12. Order
two for $20. plus shipping.
Comfrey Comfort Salve contains wild crafted and organic herbs, bark and leaves from La Paix Herb Farm's gardens and woods. Ingredients include Extra Virgin olive oil, West Virginia beeswax, plantain, other wildcrafted herbs and comfrey with essential oils of eucalyptus, peppermint and Rosemary. Numerous buyers attest that muscular aches and pains, arthritic joint pain disappear after using my green salve.
I can state from my own
experience that I accidently dropped
a heavy iron bar on my foot,
immediately rubbed Comfrey salve on it and the pain disappeared and none
returned the next morning! It was as if it had never happened!
Notice:
Apprenticeship program filled for 2009.
For photos of La Paix Gardens in
July,
Back in Stock!
Paintings of La Paix's gardens and flowers by
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!
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Photos of Lavender Fair 2009
Individual Workshops may be conducted at La Paix Herb Farm by request : All workshops and tours must be pre-registered and pre-paid for. All day Tours: $200. for one to ten participants. You may bring your own picnic luncheon and picnic at the many umbrella sheltered tables on the grounds. (no refunds unless cancellation made one week prior to scheduled event). 1/2 day tours: $100. for one to ten participants. Workshops without catered luncheon: $500. for up to nine participants. (no refunds unless cancellation made one week prior to scheduled event)
Please
be aware that these workshops and tours take place on an historic
homestead in Wild Wonderful West Virginia. This is an outside
environment event. The grassy paths and grounds are hilly and uneven.
The wood walks are on rustic paths, with steep climbs and sometimes
participants stray off the paths.
Lily in the Feng Shui Garden
For more photos of La Paix's Gardens and
Woods in 2008, click here Scheduled Exhibits of
my paintings 2008-2009:
A combination of pure
essential oils to eliminate |
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La Paix Herb Farm's
Passionate
Gardener's Hand Cream is 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. |
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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.
They
could also be used for weddings and reunion activities.
Reunion Group meets for a tour of the family homestead (May/Kraus) at La Paix May 24, 2008. |
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Photos İby R. Tom
Sizemore |
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