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Lavender Cookie Contest Winner 2006 -  Deaonna Crowe again! Winning recipe and photo
☼ Photos of the very successful Lavender Fair 2006.  My camera was broken and so my apprentice for 2002, Helen Caldwell, took photos.[ ☼The Lavender Fair 2005 - photos 
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Saturday, June 24th.2006
"LIVIN' EASY" is the theme -
The Fair will have the usual gourmet food, crafts, workshops and walks and talks on using herbs for crafts, culinary and medicinal purposes,  organic gardening,  wild edibles, wild mushrooms massage etc.  all in the beautiful and peaceful country herb farm known as La Paix Herb Farm, which was recently named a National Historic Landmark.  (May/Kraus Homestead) In addition the Fair will feature exhibits, demonstrations and workshops on how to live less expensively and easily by  using sustainable health,  energy, building, peaceful and economic techniques.  
At least 2 hybrid cars will be shown at the fair and their owners will be available for questions.  Scroll below for details. 
 

June 24th, 2006

 Where: 
La Paix Herb Farm
Alum Bridge,
West Virginia
(north central - Lewis County)

When:  9:30 a.m. -
5:30 p.m.

Why:  For the peace of it!

For Events scheduled to date (May 20,  2006) scroll down.

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
Reservations
required to guarantee
Full Luncheon



Ala Carte items will be available until
sold.

Menu

Summer Pistou

 Salad of Roquefort and Roasted Walnuts Belgian Endive and Lambs Lettuce  Vinaigrette

 Olive Oil Brioche
Oatmeal-Lavender Biscuits
Parmesan Pepper Loaf
Black Olive Tapenade

Vegetarian Entree:
June Vegetable Ragout Herb Garden Pistou “Purple Haze” Chevre

 Lavender Chicken
Braised Asparagus
Red Potatoes Roasted in Sea Salt

Chocolate Cherry Almond Tart
or
Roasted Apple Crisp *
Honey Lavender Whipped Cream

Order Gourmet Luncheon Now

$25. per person
 

*Roasted Apple Crisp ala Dale Hawkins, Executive Chef

 Apples—whether or not they are in pie--are as American as you can get.  We have an orchard here on the Resort property that we are restoring that is more than a hundred years old.  In fact some of the local historians say it may well have been around when Stonewall Jackson himself was hiking through these mountains near his home at Jackson’s Mill only 15 miles north of here.
That orchard was my inspiration and it convinced me that our signature dessert should feature apples.  The apples in this crisp are baked the way my grandmother did hers—there’s no sugar added; she caramelized them in their own natural fruit sugars. I developed the recipe after I visited the Bruderhof—it uses their granola and then I made some adaptations of my own—the lavender whipped cream.  Hope you enjoy this New Appalachian favorite.  Dale Hawkins, Exec. Chef, Stonewall Resort.

(you may also reserve the full lunch by mailing check per person  $25. to
La Paix Herb Farm
3052 Crooked Run Rd.
Alum Bridge, WV 26321)

A limited # of Ala Carte items will be available

Directions to La Paix:

1.  From Interstate 79
2.  Take Exit 99
3.  Turn left to Weston
4.  Go through Weston
to Route 33 West
5.  Drive approximately
15 miles on Rt. 33 W
to Alum Bridge
6.  (landmarks:  Alum Bridge School on left)
7.  Continue on Rt. 33W
about 2 miles to
8.  Crooked Run Rd.
on left (sign on right)
9.  Turn left over concrete
bridge on Crooked Run
10.  Travel 2-l/2 miles
to first left (signs will
be there)
11.  Turn left, continue about 1 mile to Parking
and Registration
12.  You are here!
Welcome~


Mike Plybon will return again to give his
excellent chair massages.

Supporters to date:

West Virginia Environmental Council

Sustainable Living for West Virginia

Stonewall Resort
Roanoke, W.V.

Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition 

Mountain Laurel 4H Dancers*
The Irish Slip Jig
They will perform twice during
the day and have a booth.
NO SHOW!
 

Workshops, Demonstrations, Exhibits
Tours
  Walks & Talks
   Gourmet Food
   Wine Tasting
Crafts, Herbs, Plants, Demonstrations
& Beautiful Celtic Music
with Michelle Luddy,* (bio below) Harp & Rita Brockway, Flute
in A Beautiful Historic Setting
Morris, Scottish and Irish Folk  Dancers:  
Mountain Laurel 4H Dancers* (bio below)

Dale Hawkins, Executive Chef of Stonewall Resort, demonstrated his Lavender Chicken recipe at the Fair in 2004. He plans to cater the Fair again in 2006 (missed 2005 because he was in Hawaii!)  He will give a talk on Growing Herbs & Veggies
for High End Hotels/Restaurants in West Virginia (4 grants)
 

Maureen Rogers, Herb Growing and Marketing Network, nationally known speaker, 
will conduct a workshop and demonstration
of the Chinese Tea Ceremony in the Japanese Pavilion.
She will bring information on obtaining and growing your
own tea plants. Maureen will also discuss the medicinal
uses of tea herbs. 

Denise Poole, Poole's Art & Antiques, will 
have her popular booth again - vintage jewelry & collectables.

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

Announcing Lavender Cookie Contest 2006!
$25. first prize & recipe published on web site
 Can you make a better cookie than the 2003, &  2004 -2005 winners?   Bring your cookies and your printed recipe for judging at Noon on Saturday, June 24th, 2006

Deaonna Crowe conducted a 
workshop on wild edible plants and
WON THE COOKIE CONTEST IN 2004 & 2005!

Lavender Cookie Contest Rules

The Fourth Annual Lavender Fair & More, to be held at La Paix Herb Farm in Lewis County, West Virginia on Saturday, June 24th, 2006 announces the Fourth Annual Lavender Cookie Contest. Contestants are asked to bring their cookies and the recipe to the Fair for judging.  Judges will determine the winning cookie based on presentation, flavor, texture and originality.

Cookie Judges:  1.  Christine Richards, Lewis County Convention & Visitors Bureau      2.  Elaine Ferry, R.N.  Arcadia Herb Retreat
3.  Geof Kraus, Chef

Elaine Ferry R.N., Arcadia Herb & Retreat Farm will
give two workshops:  Sustainable Health with Herbs and
Making Lavender Wands

 Justin Wizard, Innovative
Technology Research Center,

w Get all
your work done for the day in an hour. Have a $795 car that gets 55 mpg?
Solar ovens? Solar powered fountains and showers! Lots of fun things!
Everything proof $18,900 houses that go up in 2 days with 2 people doing the work. Low cost and easy to do. Create everything you need for self sufficiency? Grow more in less space using less time. Is it possible?  Find the secrets of a great life. No stress. Joy.
 

Art Digman, Dowser, returns again to demonstrate
how to find information using  dowsing techniques  at the Lavender Fair 2006.

See lavender essential oil
distilled in the distillery!

Learn how to make
Lavender Wands & Soap
 

Cooking with Lavender -
Chef demonstration!

Wild Edible and Wild
Mushroom Walks

Arts and Craft Booths

Chair Massage  -
all day

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

Geof Kraus, Chef
88 Restaurant

Music Featuring:

Michelle Luddy's* harp playing was so entrancing and popular that she will be returning to play again at the Fair in 2006 sponsored by the following Weston, W.V. businesses:

Bennett's Home & Auto Supply
Main Ave.
Robert Ramsey
Insurance
State Farm Insurance
Butcher Layfield
All Service Realty
269-3333, 115 Main Ave

2006 Booths to date*
numbers are not consecutive as "no shows* have been removed.

 1.   W.V. Environmental Council - T Shirts, Info.2.  Arcadia Herb Retreat -
medicinal herbs3.  Denise Poole's Poole's Art & Antiques, natural candles & soaps.
4.  La Paix Shop -
lip balm, hydrosols,
hand cream, books,
plants. lavender crafts
essential oils
5.  Art Digman's Dowsing
crystals, dowsing rods
6.  Sustainable Living
for W.V. - information on website featuring green businesses in W.V.
7.   Innovative Technology
Research Center -
solar energy, composting
& more

9.  Smoke Camp Crafts - herb plants, herb books
10.  Herb Growing & Marketing
Network - information
on herbs, international
herb business guide. Orthobionomy - release of pain through touch
11.  Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition -
Exhibits, Information, T-shirts
12.  Garden Treasures -
herb soaps, plants
13.  Cornucopia -
books on mushrooms
14.  Mike Plybon -
chair massage
15.  Michelle Luddy,
Glissande Perfumes - Massage Oils, Beeswax Cremes, Lavender Perfume Blends, Bath Products

17.  Dana J. Clark MSW
Peace Booth
Conflict Resolution demon., Peace Dept. info.
18.  Joan Beard  Eureka Herbs
Display Plant Samples, Plants & seeds to sell,
Poster:  Samples of wild edibles and more.
19.  WVU Organic Farm
Group
Display - Organic Farm Research & Internship
Opportunities

21.  Healthberry Herbs
Honey, Beeswax products
22.  Gilmore County Master Gardener's - exhibits
23.  US Pirg
Citizen information, petition
to raise mpg requirements
for U.S. cars, SUV's
24.  SO-Lux
hand made soy candles, pure soy wax.

*Numbers are not consecutive as no shows have been removed.
                        
 

SCHEDULE OF DEMOS, WORKSHOPS, TALKS,
WALKS & EVENTS

 LAVENDER FAIR AND MORE 2006:  June 24, 2006

    La Paix Herb Farm, Alum Bridge , West Virginia