Lavender growers will demonstrate how to grow and use lavender throughout the day. Several vendors will offer plants and products for sale. Festival organizers promise music by Sequimarimba and the jazz band Sixteen Inch Cocobolos. Children's activities include face painting and lavender crafts. Overcast, mild June days slowed flower production, but July's sun helped bring plants into their prime.
Most fields boast tidy rows of plants covered in fragrant purple flowers.
Food and entertainment are on tap at most of the farms, and growers will demonstrate a variety of crafts and offer tips for growing lavender in home gardens. Sequim farmers began riding the purple wave four years ago, when a group of potential growers met at Cedarbrook Herb Farm to discuss ways to preserve small-parcel agriculture in the valley. They formed Fields of Flowers, a subcommittee of Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce's beautification and vision committee Sequim 2000. Since that first meeting, growers have planted more than 10 acres of the valley with the evergreen herb. Association members created quality standards for flower bundles and pooled their harvest for sale to wholesale clients.