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Private Lavender Farm in Thurston County where our nursery specializes in many lavender varieties, including English, French Lavendins and Spanish types.

Grosso, Hidcote, and Alba white being the most popular. Thurston County Premier Wedding and Event Center

10/25/2026

We’re been busy until the golden hour, planting something you’ll wish you could walk straight into. 🌷

Peonies in soft blush and ivory.

Ruffled tulips in ch*****ne, peach, and copper.

Our familiar windmill watching over a new chapter at Hillside Lavender Farms.

We’re excited to share roots are in the ground for the first blooms of spring 2027, and a flower garden that will grow more beautiful with every season.

Consider this your first look at the vision.

The getting our hands dirty part is already happening. 🤍

Follow along as we bring it to life in Tenino, Washington. Tag the person you’d want beside you when these rows begin to bloom.

{ Illustrated preview of our future flower garden }

10/06/2026

A little sneak peek at what’s taking root for 2027. 🌸

Meet Wizard of Oz.

With soft blush petals and beautifully rounded blooms, this dahlia made the decision to bring her to Hillside Lavender Farms an easy one. 😉

Next season starts long before the first bloom. Right now, it’s choosing varieties, sorting tubers for the winter, laying out the vision and waiting for spring to arrive…

And yes, there’s room for a little pink magic. ✨

Coming to Hillside Lavender Farms in 2027.

10/05/2026

📣 TTTAAAAA DAAAAA! What a great weekend for gardening as we are starting to tuck some of our tubers inside fresh shavings for the winter.

We have been collecting several varieties to bring to the farm for next growing season of offering fresh cut bouquets at our farm stand for 2027 and tubers will be available for 2028.

Here’s a sneak peek into two of our favorites… ♥️🧡

10/02/2026

🍁🍂🍃 the colors are in full effect…

Turning the next page into autumn display

One of our favorite shifts into c***r and long afternoons soaking in the last few weeks of sunlight

09/03/2026

It started as a pile of color across the island in our kitchen this morning.

Cara Cara 🍊 and lemons. Tart Granny Smith 🍏. Ginger, Tumeric, purple garlic, jalapeños, cilantro, purple cabbage, fresh herbs, cloves, and peppercorns.

Nothing powdered.

Nothing rushed.

All organic.

Whole ingredients chopped by hand, packed tightly into glass jars, and filled with apple c***r vinegar before being tucked away to steep.

Over the next several weeks, those bright, separate ingredients will slowly become something deeper, sharper, and unapologetically alive.

That’s the beauty of fire c***r.

It asks for slow time.

Time for the vinegar to draw everything out.

Time for the flavors to become one.

Time for a jar filled in early September to be ready when the cold Pacific Northwest mornings settle in.

Around here, we don’t only preserve what we grow.

We preserve the season itself.

Another batch of Hillside Farms fire c***r is officially resting. 🔥🍎🌿

We’ll be sharing more at our upcoming workshop, stay tuned 😉

Hillside Lavender Farm

08/31/2026

We’ve been keeping a secret. 🌿

Since 2016, Hillside Farms has been known for row of over 800+ lavender plants, summer air heavy with fragrance, and that unmistakable purple surrounding the carefully crafted windmill behind the rustic barn.

BUT, somewhere between harvesting lavender, distilling our essential oil, making another batch of hydrosol, and imagining what this land could become next, a new vision began taking root in 2025.

So, we started drawing plans.

Measuring the fields available. Checking our soil PH levels. Studying bloom times. Walking through rows of farms the last few years, peonies, tulips, ranunculus, dahlias, zinnias and choosing varieties one flower at a time.

Not just for beauty or gorgeous sweet scents but for abundance, long stems, incredible color, and armfuls of flowers meant to be gathered and shared.

Now, it’s time to let the secret out.

The blueprint for Hillside Farms’ 2027 season is officially underway.

A whole new area of specialty cut flowers. New rows of color growing alongside the lavender plants already calling this hillside home.

This is more than adding flowers.

It’s the beginning of Hillside Farms becoming the place we’ve quietly been able to see all along.

Our 🐝 BOXES have been ordered for our upcoming workshops and we can’t wait to bring this project to life!

In 2027, you’ll finally get to walk through it. 🌸

P.s. one of our favorite trips for dahlia varieties is being shown here from Oregon and we are so excited to begin our fall bulb season this upcoming week.

08/22/2026

2026 Lavender Oil 🌿💜

🤗 There is something incredibly satisfying about seeing an entire season captured in a few precious drops and to share this experience is exciting!

Grown here.

Cut by hand.

Distilled here on the farm.

Our 2026 lavender essential oil is officially here. 💜

This year’s oil comes from our freshly harvested Grosso and Provence lavender, distilled in small batches so we can preserve as much of the plant’s aromatic character as possible.

And when we say small batch, we mean it.

Lavender essential oil is a lesson in just how concentrated nature really is. Armfuls of flowering lavender go into the still. Steam moves through the flowers and calyxes, carrying their volatile oils into the condenser.

What emerges is beautiful lavender hydrosol, followed by that incredibly thin, unmistakable layer floating at the top:

Pure lavender essential oil.

No fragrance added.

No carrier oils.

No shortcuts.

Just lavender, water, steam, patience, and plants grown right here on the farm.

After watching these plants grow all season, harvesting them by hand, and finally seeing that first layer of 2026 oil separate from the hydrosol…

THAT little line of oil feels pretty special. 🌿

AND this girl is in happy 🥹

From our lavender fields to the bottle.

Hillside Farms | 2026 Lavender Harvest 💜

Hillside Lavender Farm

08/16/2026

There’s something incredibly satisfying about taking lavender from plant to bottle. 💜

We’ve been receiving LOTS of requests asking how we use fresh lavender to make lavender tea, hydrosol & essential oil, so we thought we’d start taking you behind the scenes and sharing more of the process.

This 2026 harvest went straight from the garden of trimming our 800+ plants, to the dehydrator and off to the distiller.

Fresh lavender is loaded into the chamber, steam slowly moves through the flowers and aromatic plant material, and what begins as a bundle of lavender eventually emerges drop by drop as beautifully fragrant lavender hydrosol, with precious essential oil separating from the water.

And here’s our little behind-the-scenes advice:

Batch small.

It can be tempting to process as much lavender as possible at once, especially when the bushes are overflowing, but we prefer working in smaller batches.

It gives us more oversight over each distillation and helps us keep the process consistent from one batch to the next.

There’s no rushing this part.

Harvest.
Prepare.
Distill.
Collect.
Separate.

And repeat. 🌿

We’ll be sharing more of the process, including how we harvest and prepare the lavender, how we make lavender hydrosol and essential oil, and ways to use the finished products.

And yes, we’ll get to the lavender tea too. 💜

From the lavender growing outside our door to seeing that first bit of distillate trickle into the jar, this might be one of our favorite ways to use the harvest yet.

Since our farm is located INSIDE the agricultural district for teaching all the things about our farm and garden operations; stay tuned for our upcoming classes link on how to learn more 🫶🏽

P.S. we’ll be starting up our next series in September for the ones who are chomping at the bit for our next upcoming gathering 😉

Hillside Lavender Farm

08/13/2026

a few little upgrades today 🙂

found this elegant wingback accent chair with cream-colored linen-textured upholstery ( I was looking for old antique 🪟 for our fall project of another greenhouse project ) and stumbled across this chair and was 👀…

The frame is accented with silver-toned nailhead trim along the arms, seat base, and backrest. It has four black curved cabriole-style legs & yes, it is so comfy!

After this was brought in, I decided to remove the previous white curtains and made a trip to Home Goods to see what I could find

AND sidenote, let’s be totally honest, that place is very dangerous to go into with all the fall decor and in the far back picked up 3 sets of curtains that I simply adore…

So,

here’s the final look from the field trip

Hillside Lavender Farm

06/24/2026

💜 June lavender in full effect
and bright ☀️ at the farm today…

We really have been enjoying this slow paced summer and the sunshine is being soaked up with about 800+ plants in the field 😁

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1120 143rd Avenue SE
Tenino, WA
98589

Opening Hours

Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm
Sunday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+13609186495

Website

http://www.hillsidefarmsvenue.com/

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