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On Left:  Lavender grown at La Paix 2009 
On  right:  The distillery at La Paix

Earth Dance for Peace and the environment here at La Paix on Saturday, September 18th Noon to 5 p.m.  Bring picnic lunch. 
RSVP lapaix@hughes.net.

More information on Earth Dance around the world http://www.earthdancepeacewatch.com/

The Last Lavender Day was held July 10, 2010


Photo by Jill Stewart, Creative Exposures, Weston WV of steward Myra Bonhage-Hale at Lavender Fair 2009. 
Latest photos of La Paix's Gardens June 18, 2010

Earth Dance for Peace and the environment here at La Paix on Saturday, September 18th Noon to 5 p.m.  Bring picnic lunch. 
RSVP lapaix@hughes.net.

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
and here for Mother Wit with lovely comments.


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


La Paix's All Natural
Fragrance Creams Click Here


WVU Journalism Students visit to do Capstone Class project (multi media) on April 23, 2010
Click here for audio, video, news story by Brian Young, Karilyn Galiotos and James Carbone,

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


Lavender Cookie Contest Winner 2009 Recipe

2003 to 2008 Cookie Recipe winners

Kate and Helen, former apprentices, posing at the Bathtub in the Garden -
painting by Myra Bonhage-Hale


Ahh, after this 2010 winter of snow and ice, can spring just hurry up!  Back Gate at La Paix

 

 


News!  Antique Apple Tree at La Paix identified as Black Twig!


La Paix's Honey Lips re-packaged in easy
flip tin (just a flick of the thumb and it's open!).
Order Here for Orange Flavor  $3.75
Order Here for Vanilla Flavor  $3.75

For photos of  La Paix Gardens in July,
August and September 2007, click here

Photos of July 08 lavender harvest
Beginning!   2008 Garden Photos - new!
Lavender Fair 2008: "Love & Learn"
June 28th, 2008     Photos
 are ready to view!
Photographs of the Lavender Fair 2007   click here. and here
Photos of La Paix Gardens Spring and Summer 2009 here

Back in Stock! 
  Comfrey Comfort Salve


Proposal for an International Peace Museum at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

For workshop and tour information,
click here  

 Recycled Goat Shed now Holy Garden Shed

Sheila McEntee, Editor of the Wild Wonderful
West Virginia magazine has written a
wonderful feature on Paix Herb Farm in the
June 2007 edition.  It can be
obtained at the La Paix Shop or free with $25. purchase or more on the Shopping Cart. 
It is also on the website at: 
Wonderful West Virginia

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!


Bee Balm  Feng Shui Garden Summer 2009

 

La Paix Peony - Myra Bonhage Hale, painter

Scheduled Exhibits of my paintings 2008-2009:
March, 2008:  Aesop's Cafe, Buckhannon
April - August 2008:  Davis and Elkins Library (The
Sustainable Art Exhibit)
May, 2008:  Randolph Co. Art Council, Elkins, W.V.
Aug. 30th - Sept. 2nd Jackson Mill Jubilee, Weston, WV
Bathtub in the Garden #5 Honorable Mention Art Exhibit
Six photos juried into Photo Club
September 26th - 29th Embassy Suites Towson, Maryland
Towson High School Reunion:  4 Paintings, 7 photos
Oct. 31, Nov. 1st - WV Herb Assoc. Conference Flatwoods WV
September 2008 to April 9, 2009:  Prints of Paintings and note cards at The Gallery in Weston.
April 17th through May 5th 2009:  Stonewall Resort, Roanoke West  Virginia Lobby (April 17th, 18th:  Sustainable Fair 2009 Art Show)  see agenda SustainableLivingforWestVirginia  Received Honorable Mention for The Supplicant

Check out Ovation TV for more photos


 

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. 



Simmer Into Spring with La Paix's Simmering Potpourri of
organically certified
Lavender & Roses
Rose buds and petals, hibiscus flowers, cinnamon sticks, blue violet leaves and orange peel.
1 cup bag:  $10.00
Order Now

to bring the fragrant sensuous scents of spring becoming summer into your home

Photos of Lavender Fair 2009
Jill Stewart, Creative Exposure Photography click here

News!  Apprentices Helen, Judith and Zack return


 



A distillery, purchased through a USDA
SARE grant, is used to distill many of the
fragrant, culinary and medicinal herbs
and plants grown at La Paix.

 


Greeting Card Box #3:  Cards suitable for framing: $15.
See  note cards and prints from original paintings by the Steward of La Paix:  Click Here

 

 


Another View of the Feng Shui Garden
Summer 2009

 

Lily in the Feng Shui Garden
Summer 2009

For more photos of La Paix's Gardens and Woods in 2008,  click here
See  note cards and prints from original paintings by the Steward of La Paix:  Click Here



Bathtub in the Garden - August 2008

 

Paintings of La Paix's gardens and flowers by
Steward Myra Bonhage-Hale
Prints and Greeting Cards for sale

 

Prints for sale:  Click Here


Painting by Myra Bonhage-Hale
The Supplicant (fallen red oak at La Paix)

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.
Please click here for former apprentice comments

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
             For more information about this all natural product,  click here

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. 

 

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.



  In 2010, Workshops and Tours are no longer being
conducted.  Thanks for your support and presence
in the past!
 

Photos ©by R. Tom Sizemore
La Paix's woods 2004
click here for more photos of the woods

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Myra Bonhage-Hale, Steward, La Paix Herb Farm

 

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