Lavender Fair 2007, click here

To See Photos of the 2005 Fair, click here  

Herbes de Provence Bread*

      A Wild & Wonderful Herb Fair

Lavender Cakes and Scones*

See preparation for
Fair and Pavilions
 

Lavender Cookie Contest!
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For up-to-date schedule of events, scroll down

 Workshops
Tours
  Walks & Talks
   Gourmet Food
   Wine Tasting
Crafts, Herbs, Plants, Demonstrations
& Beautiful Music

See Lavender Fair 2004

See New Moon Pizza Fair
Saturday, Sept. 3rd. 2005

Lavender Cookie Contest Rules!
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When:  Saturday,
June 25th, 2005
 Where: 
La Paix Herb Farm
Alum Bridge,
West Virginia
(north central - Lewis County)
 

Admission:  $5. 
Family $10. 

All children must be accompanied by an adult at all times
9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Please No Pets

Reservations are required for the entire luncheon prepared by Dale Hawkins, Executive Chef, Stonewall Resort.
$25. per person
Order Gourmet Luncheon Now 
 

Full Luncheon
Organic Greens w/
Roasted Garlic
Vinaigrette


Green Bean, Tomato &
Cucumber Salad with Dill
Mustard Vinaigrette

Lavender Chicken w/
Asparagus, Spinach, &
Tomato Filets w/ Tomato-
Chevre Risotto

or

Vegetarian Option:
Eggplant &  Portabello
Mushroom Napoleon w/
Tomato- Chevre Risotto

Artisan Breads w/
Herbes de Provence
Butter  Tapenade

Lavender  Scones w/
Strawberries & Fresh
Mint, Lemon Curd

or

Lavender Shortbread

Iced Tea, Lavender
Lemonade or
Complimentary
Glass of Wine


 
$25. per person
Reservations
required to guarantee
Full Luncheon

Order Gourmet Luncheon Now 

For up to the minute schedule of Events, Demos, Workshops and Talks, click here

Lavender Cookie Contest!
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Deaonna Crowe, 
author of "It's All Wild",  
will conduct a Walk and Talk
identifying wild edible plants 



Myra Bonhage-Hale, Steward of La Paix, will give a demonstration of distilling lavender &
a Tour of the lavender growing at La Paix.

Geoff Kraus entertains a  fascinated audience with
his Lavender Crème Brule, Lavender Fair 2004.  He left me a
large dish of the crème Brule which I hid from others in the kitchen successfully.  However, when I snuck it out in the late hours and took it to my bedroom to eat in lascivious comfort,  the taste was
so entrancing that I ate it all - my taste buds were bigger
than my tummy - not a good thing! 

Dale Hawkins, Executive Chef of Stonewall Resort, demonstrated his Lavender Chicken recipe at the Fair in 2004.
He returns as the Chef in 2005 and will give two demonstrations.
The first has not been decided on, but the second, at the
end of the day, will be on Cooking with Wild Mushrooms
and Wild Edibles.  Samples will be for sale. 

Deanna English, Paul Goland and Mark English examine 
Chicken of the Wood Mushroom
found in La Paix's woods July 10, 2003.
Paul Goland of Hardscrabble Enterprises gave a workshop on Growing Shitakes and a Wood Walk on Identifying Edible Wild Mushrooms at the 2003 and 2004 Fair.  He will be giving the same popular workshops again on June 25th. For photos of mushrooms and woods taken by R. Tom Sizemore, III,
click here

 

Melissa Dennison (left) of Garden Treasures, conducts a  workshop in Making Lavender Wands at Lavender Fair 2004.

Tammy Perrine of Mountain Clean LLC will conduct the Lavender Soap Making Class in 2005.

Michelle Luddy will perform on her harp during the Lavender Fair, at times accompanied by Connie Gay Polovina on the cello.  Michelle will have a booth featuring her fine Glissande Perfumes.

See lavender essential oil
distilled in the distillery!

Learn how to make
Lavender Wands

Lavender Soap

Cooking with Lavender -
Chef demonstrate!

Wild Edible Walk

Edible Mushroom Walk

Arts and Crafts

West Virginia Environmental Council

Sustainable Living
Demos

Chair Massage  -
all day

Food for the Fastidious! 
Catered by renowned
Executive Chef,
Dale Hawkins
of  Stonewall Resort

Lavender Cookie
Contest!
Bring your recipe, your
cookies
and let us know you are
coming!   Email us.

Stroll through the
Gardens of La Paix
featuring culinary,
medicinal and plants for distillation

 Culinary Demos:

 Dale Hawkins, Exec. Chef
Stonewall Resort

Music Featuring:
Michelle Luddy, Harp
Connie Gay Polovina, Cello
&
Kay Basham, Guitar
(see schedule below for times)

Kay Basham. who has made three commercial herbal videos* will conduct a
workshop on
Making Herbal Wines
&
entertain with
her music
*  Native American Herbology For Beginners
Preparing Herbal Remedies
Culinary Herbs for
Better Health

Art Digman, Dowser
demonstrated dowsing
at the 2003 & 2004 Fair and
will be here again in 2005!
 
 

A Meditative Labyrinth Walk
with Denise Poole
Denise will  have her popular booth again -
vintage jewelry & collectables.
Denise will also conduct
a Yoga Exercise class.


 

Deaonna Crowe,
Stonewood, W.V.

2 eggs 
2 Cups Sugar
1/2 Cup butter
1/2 Cup Crisco
1 Cup Real sour cream
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
real vanilla extract 1 tsp.
1 1/2 Cup  flour
1/2 tsp. almond flavoring

1.  Mix all together. 
 2.  Refrigerate 2 to
3 hours. 
3. Roll out and cut
with small cookie cutter. 
4.  Place bottom
cookie on greased cookie sheet.
5.  To Dot's SMOKE
CAMP CRAFT Lavender
jelly  add 1 tsp.
sweet sherry 
6.  Stir jelly and add cake or food coloring to color it  lavender. 
7.  Then place about 1/2
to 1 tsp. jelly on top of
each bottom  cookie. 
8.  On the top cookie, 
cut a small slit in the
shape of an L.
9.  Place the top to
the bottom cookie and
press to seal.
10.  Beat one egg white
with 2 tsp. of sugar
till mixed but not
foaming. Brush this
over each cookie
and sprinkle with fresh lavender buds.

Bake 375 for about
7 to 8 minutes.

Judge's comment: 
"Not only a wonderful
taste but a beautiful
cookie"

 

Local B & B's

Stonewall Resort
Roanoke, W.V. 
10% off for Lavender
Fair goers
 

* Ingeberg Acres Bed & Breakfast 
Valley Chapel, W.V.   
(304) 269-2834
10% off for Lavender
Fair goers

Deer Park Country Inn 
Buckhannon, W.V.
(304) 472-8430

*Cheat River Campground
& Cabins
7 miles east of Elkins
(304) 636-3624
15% off for
fairgoers

 

Art Digman will return again to
demonstrate his dowsing skills

Dot Montgillion will take you
on a Medicinal Herb Walk
Learn how so called weeds
some people eradicate with
chemicals are some of nature's best healers.

Lavender Cookie Contest Judges:  Richard Cava, W.V.
Lavender Growers supporter, Don Garvin, former President of WV Environmental Council, and Jane Birdsong, radio personality McGraw radio, sample cookies.  

Announcing Lavender Cookie Contest 2005!
$25. first prize & recipe published on web site
 Can you make a better cookie than the 2003 &  2004 winners?   (scroll down) Bring your cookies and your printed recipe for judging at Noon on Saturday, June 25th, 2005.

 

Deaonna Crowe (center) conducted a 
workshop on wild edible plants and
WON THE COOKIE CONTEST IN 2004!
She has agreed to come again and take the
wild edible plant walk with visitors again! 

Geoff Kraus demonstrates Lavender Creme Brule.

Johna, representing Lambert's Vintage Winery, offers information and wine samples to
participants at the Lavender Fair 2004.
Photo by R. Tom Sizemore, III ®

Lavender Cookie Contest Rules

The Third Annual Lavender Fair & More, held at La Paix Herb Farm in Lewis County, West Virginia on Saturday, June 25th, 2005 announces the Third Annual Lavender Cookie Contest. Contestants are asked to bring their cookies and the recipe for judging to the Fair. Judges, including Don Garvin, former President of the West Virginia Environmental Council and seasoned cookie judge, Elaine Ferry R.N. West Virginia Herb Association, Leah Deitz, Staff Writer, The Inter-Mountain News, and Bryan Sobel, Apprentice, La Paix Herb Farm  will determine the winning cookie based on presentation, flavor, texture and originality.

Contestants are hereby warned that Deaonna Crowe, the Lavender Cookie winner of 2004, has already created a new recipe featuring three luscious ingredients. So create your recipe and make it bling!
 

Supporters 

West Virginia Environmental Council

West Virginia Herb Association

Stonewall Resort 

Sue Ellen Gross
Elkins W.V.

1-l/4 cup flour
2 Tablespoons lavender flowers
1 teaspoon baking powder
pinch salt
1/2 cup Butter - softened
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1 egg

1.  Combine dry
ingredients and set aside. 
2.  Cream butter
~ add sugar, extract & egg. 
3.  Add dry to butter
mixture ~
1/2 at a time. 
4.  Chill until firm. 
5.  Make 1 inch ball ~
roll in sugar. 
Bake 12 minutes at
350 degrees or until
lightly brown. 
Drizzle with frosting
and top with almond
if desired.
Makes 36.

2005 Booths to date
6-12-05
 1.   W.V. Environmental Council -
T Shirts, Info.
2.  Garden Treasures -
Plants,
lavender crafts, soaps
 3.  Arcadia Herb Retreat -
medicinal herbs
  4.  Collectibles -
vintage jewelry, glass
  5.  La Paix Shop -
lip balm, hydrosols,
hand cream, books,
plants. lavender crafts
essential oils
  6.  Art Digman's Dowsing
crystals, dowsing rods
 7.   Deaonna Crowe's - 
Wild Edible Cookbook - 
"It's All Wild"
  8.  Sustainable Living
for W.V. - auction
9. Innovative Technology
Research Center -
solar energy, composting
& more
10.  Hardscrabble Enterprises -
wild mushrooms,
shitake logs,  books
11.  West Virginia
Herb Association -
Recipe Books,
T shirts, mugs,
membership info.
12.  Smoke Camp Crafts -
crafts,
herbs, plants
13.  Kay Basham,
Moondreamer,  jewelry, guitar straps, dreamcatchers
14.  Mike Plybon - Chair
Massage, fuel catalyst
http://www.enviromaxplus.com%3F2895901/
15.  Joelle - WV Lavender Hill - lavender crafts
16.  Margaret Chapman - West Virginia Free -
educational literature
17.  Jody Skaggs -
Allegheny Handcrafts -
lawn furniture & more
18.  Michelle Luddy -
Glissande Perfumes - Massage Oils, Beeswax Cremes, Lavender Perfume Blends, Bath Products
19.  Tammy Perrine -
Mountain Clean LLC
Soaps, Herbal Crafts, Hand Crafted Chairs, Settees, Baskets
20.  Eve Drennan -
Great Spirit Herbs
Plants, Herbal Crafts etc.
21.  Christine  Dilworth -
Herbal Rendezvous Farm
herb plants and flowers, dried herbs, Hot Pepper Oils & vinegars, wreathes
22.  Ben & Stacey McKean
Little Hungary Winery
wine tasting, wine for sale

 

Justin Wizard of The
Innovative Technology
Research Center will give a demonstration and
talk entitled,
"Live Better on Less"

The First West Virginia Lavender Fair was a one day event on Saturday, July 12th, 2003.   About 200 participants savored the delicious food catered by Dale Hawkins, saw an essential oil distillation, made lavender wands,
saw a slide show of lavender in France and West Virginia and enjoyed many booths featuring lavender
and herbs.  They strolled the many gardens of La Paix and relaxed under umbrellas dotted throughout the
grounds on a beautiful balmy sunny day.  Many found  peace in the Labyrinth and on the paths through the
woods.  Maureen Rogers of the Herb Growing and Marketing Network spoke on the Uses of Lavender
Essential Oil.  Music by "Unsound" a local alternative band featured William Nicoll Hale III, the lead singer. 
A Lavender Cookie contest was held - the winning recipe is featured on this page (see above).

An excellent radio production made by Jean Snedegar, Stringer for NPR and British radio was so
well received that the steward of La Paix, and the many helpers at the Fair decided to plan an even larger
Fair for 2004.  For details and photos of the 2004 Lavender Fair & More click here. 

DIRECTIONS TO LA PAIX HERB FARM

From Interstate I 79, take Exit 99, turn left toward Weston to Route 33 west.  Travel about fifteen miles
on Rt. 33 West. 
When you have traveled approximately thirteen miles, you will note the Alum Bridge Elementary School
on your left. 
Keep going another two miles to Crooked Run Road on your left. The sign for Crooked Run is on
your right. 
Turn left on Crooked Run.  There will be signs posted along 33 and Crooked Run to aid your journey
to the Fair. 
Go up Crooked Run 2-l/2 miles to a mailbox on your right which says La Paix Farm. 
Turn left (it is the first left hand turn on Crooked Run) and go another mile to La Paix Herb Farm
at the end of the road.  There will be people directing parking as you enter La Paix. 
Welcome!

SCHEDULE OF DEMOS, WORKSHOPS, TALKS,
WALKS & EVENTS

 LAVENDER FAIR AND MORE 2005:  June 25, 2005

    La Paix Herb Farm, Alum Bridge , West Virginia

Music! Music! Music!
Michelle Luddy on harp, Connie Gay Polovina on cello and dulcimer,
Kay Basham on guitar  see schedule below