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Mad Lavender Farm Opens Again in May for the 2025 Season

Apr 02, 2025 05:36AM ● By Jerome Bilaos

Mad Lavender Farm opens for the season in May, and Adrienne Crombie and Don Dalen are excited to present new workshops as well as the familiar favorites everybody has come to love. 

High season at the farm starts the first week of June when lavender is in full bloom and lasts through the first week of July. During that time visitors may “Pick Your Own” lavender each morning on Wednesday through Sunday (tickets available online). English lavender is first to burst forth providing abundant fresh lavender for the popular English Lavender Wreath Workshop. This year, the farm is also offering Lavender Medicine Making to learn various ways that lavender can be used in a home apothecary. From late June into July, long-stemmed French lavender comes into bloom, so don’t miss the unique Lavender Wand and French Lavender Wreath workshops. These lovely hand-made crafts can only be made with fresh cut lavender and the window of time brief. 

Tickets for all workshops as well as Baby Goat Yoga are available online. See you soon!

Location: 452 CR 579, Milford. Hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 10am to 2pm. For more information contact Adrienne or Don at 908-310-5973, email [email protected] and visit MadLavenderFarm.com. See ad, page 31.
In-Print, Health+Wellness, Green Living April 2025
Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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