Lavender has had a rebirth says Cynthia Sutphin Founder of the famous Cape Cod Lavender Farm in Harwich, Massachusetts.
Besides being beautiful to look at, Lavender has amazing wellness benefits, one of which is calming people down. Yes, Lavender is a natural remedy for anxiety, insomnia, headaches, bug bites, and burns. Bug Bites? Who knew? If you get a bug bite of any kind, Cynthia says just rub a little lavender oil on it or the ZEN ROLL-ON HEMP & LAVENDER ESSENTIAL OIL Cynthia just launched in a collaboration with Primabee CBD – and you’re good to go!
Cynthia Sutphin founded the famous Cape Cod Lavender Farm 27 years ago so that she could stay at home and work while she raised her kids.
She was initially discouraged because Lavender is a Mediterranean plant and and the soil where she’s located in MA was acidic. But she figured out how to fix that by adding some lime to the soil and that combined with the mild winters and good soil drainage (the other components of a successful lavender plant) she made the farm a success.
Cynthia started with 400 plants and as they bloomed and were harvested, she would drive back and forth to the fresh flower market in Boston. Well that was exhausting, so she decided to open her farm to the public instead, and let people come there to buy it.
Now 27 years later Cynthia has thousands of Lavender plants she sells fresh to some 10,000 visitors a year. People go there to buy her lavender bunches hanging from the ceiling. Each day what she doesn’t sell, she distills to create Lavender oil and Lavender water and makes all kinds of cool lavender gifts like candles and lavender infused edible treats.
Located at the heart of 11 secluded acres, The Cape Cod Lavender Farm property is surrounded by 75 acres of conservation land with woodland walking trails. The farm is free to visit and open March-December.
The lavender harvest occurs in a 3 week window between late June to mid-July (peak bloom).But people still go right up to Columbus Day.
Cynthia just collaborated with Primabee CBD and owner Paul Borde to create an amazing new little ZEN ROLL-ON HEMP & LAVENDER ESSENTIAL OIL that seems to be calming everybody down! Their coming together was serendipity as Cynthia says. The two had an immediate connection and the product combination of the hemp and the Lavender was ‘a natural’ to her.
Timing is good for this little ZEN roll on you can keep in your pocket, purse or next to your bed like Primabee Founder Paul Borde’s wife Nancy does, to help relax you into sleep because people are coming out of an intense experience from Covid and everything’s changing. Anxiety and fear are high and the search is on for more self care.
Hey even Pantones’ Color of the Year is based on the color Lavender but they’ve made up a color name. It’s Very Peri! Pantone says, ‘Very Peri’ places the future ahead in a new light.
An upside to the Covid experience, is that people are now stopping to think about and enjoy things they might not have otherwise known about. Different things in nature. For example, natural remedies.
The Cleveland Clinic: How Lavender Can Improve your Health :
Supports sleep; Reduces pain and inflammation; Helps with mood, anxiety and depression: “Lavender is known for its ability to calm the nervous system. Relieves menstrual pain; Kills harmful viruses and bacteria, Reduces colic symptoms.
Lovely conversation here with Cynthia Sutphin Owner of The Cape Cod Lavender Farm if you have a few minutes to listen to the podcast.
