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Below: Beverly Sills Iris
WBOYTV Coverage Stinging Nettle Research
Project
http://wboy.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=98130
Back in Stock!
Labyrinth web page updated 5-27-11 friends!
My painting, Judith in the Labyrinth (scroll
down) has been juried into the Best of WV
The Apothecary Shop is selling Lavandin
Artist in the Garden
An integral part of my journey here at To see details of La Paix's products, please visit: http://www.lapaixherbfarmproducts.com/shop
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Bizarre Bazaar
Painting of The Silver Labyrinth
at La Paix
To Buy Prints of Paintings
of La Paix and
WV Herb Association Fall Herb Festival Saturday Oct. 1st, 2011 Power Point presentation: "Tomatoes to Einstein" - research on the Efficacy of Stinging Nettle as a Fertilizer.
See summary of
Presentation Please email me
My helper, Mike
props up research tomatoes
My helper, Mike
props up research tomatoes
My finger with tomato in Hydrosol
April 3rd - Meeting at La
Paix:
Stinging
Nettle Project Journal
May Journal with photos
click here
Do you want to use stinging nettle as a
fertilizer?
For coverage of Lavender
Day,
click here for
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Rosemarys in the Greenhouse in
Rosemary blooming in Greenhouse
Winter sunset at La Paix Feb. 2011 |
Nov. 15, 2010: I am now almost finished
writing an application for a grant from the USDA SARE. News:
Grant mailed by deadline! I intend to research the use of stinging nettle (Urtica dioca L.) as a potential organic fertilizer and herbicide. Stinging nettle compost tea and hydrosol will be applied to tomato plants as a foliar spray. Previous studies indicate fermented or fresh stinging nettle water makes a good fertilizer and herbicide (depending on the strength of the mixture). The results of the applications of the formulas will be compared with a commercial organic fertilizer and a control bed. I will be working with fifteen students from the local high school, Lewis County High School their teacher, Marc Smith and assistant Boone Brown. They will follow the research beginning in February 2011 and most will continue through the summer until the Field Day in Sept. 2011. Chef Dale Hawkins will demonstrate cooking with tomatoes and stinging nettle at the Field Day. I will submit this application on Nov. 17th - and hope to be told I am to receive it by March 1st! Assisted by Tom McConnell WVU Extension Small Farms Specialist and Bruce Lloyd, Lewis County Extension with advice from Barbara Liedl PhD., Associate Research Professor West Virginia State University. ps I have recv'd three
other USDA SARE grants in the past: 1) Potato Bugs on
Kennebec Potatoes, 2) Deer Deterrents and 3) The Essential Oil
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Organically Certified Dried Lavender Flowers The Last Lavender Day was held July 10, 2010
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Lavender Flowers for sale 1 cup $16. First Photos of Lavender Day - click here
For coverage of Lavender
Day,
click here for |
  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
Kate and Helen, former
apprentices, posing at the Bathtub in the Garden -
For photos of La Paix Gardens in
July,
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
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 2011 -
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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. |
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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.
Reunion Group meets for a tour of the family homestead (May/Kraus) at La Paix May 24, 2008. |
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