Seven Oaks Lavender Farm

What a pleasant experience! Purchased a Living Social deal of $ 18 for afternoon tea and a Lavender fragrance crafting session — a great deal in my opinion! Went with a friend, but ended up having a lovely tea party (complete with lavender-​infused tea foods) with several other friendly strangers too. I loved how personal everything was — we were ushered into Deb’s house (the daughter of Seven Oaks Lavender shop) for the tea party and ate her delicious baked goods, then proceeded to the mother’s home up the hill in order to craft our own lavender scent.
The owners are extremely knowledgeable about lavender growing and different uses for it. I ended up spending about an hour at their lavender gift shop afterwards purchasing eye satchels filled with lavender, natural bug repellent, and various goods. It’s a really lovely mom & pop shop, and I am so glad I got to experience it! Would love to go again but maybe during lavender season when the frost covers aren’t hiding those blooms away.

Beautiful place obviously maintained with a lot of love! Animals are lovely, including three sweet rabbits that hopped up to be petted and fed as well as a lovely barn cat named Fuzz who followed me around. The lavender is lovely, fragrant and flowered, and the shop is well maintained. It was a wonderful break from city life!

Such a sweet, quaint farm. Seven Oaks is a cut your own farm, it’s so relaxing and peaceful as you walk the rows. Baskets and scissors are provided for you. After picking, there are tables and chairs underneath a tent where you can purchase fresh lavender lemonade and lavender mint iced tea.

Still three stars, but I wanted to give an update on my last review. After two years, I decided I wanted more lavender in my life. The layout is now different. They have expanded their lavender crop and it seems they are closer to an acre of picking. They offer both English and French varieties, although the English had already been harvested by the third week of June. Go early June if you want English lavender, which they told me is more fragrant. I got my 50 stems of French (another Living Social deal) and I was happy with it. Bees are still there, they just love this stuff! But ribbons for tying are no longer offered. You now just get a rubber band. Sad.
Cupcakes weren’t offered either, but they still had lavender lemonade and mint tea. At $ 2.50 a cup, kind of expensive. Store can still get crowded because you have to pay for your stems there. I’m sure it’s a marketing ploy to get you into the store, because you could easily pay at the field. I checked out their lotions and sachets, cute stuff but again somewhat pricey.
I must issue a WARNING for their Bug Off natural bug repellent– my son developed hives after using it! Mayo Clinic said combining lavender oil and tea tree oil can sometimes cause a rash, and that’s just what happened to him. Use cautiously if you buy.

Photos on the website are completely misleading. The plants looked nothing like the photos. They were so small and there were barely any blooms. And the fields were small too. Plus they wouldn’t let us bring our 12-​pound dog with us, even though nowhere on the website did it say no dogs (and I tried calling and emailing ahead of time, and got no response). Had we not prepaid via Living Social, we would’ve turned around and left. Waste of time and money. Except we did joke about it the whole way home.

Throw the image of skipping through the rows and rows of purple lavender fields instantly out of your head. Lavender fields were small and it only took me 10 mins to take photos and clip the lavender. Since my friend bought a living social deal, we could only clip 50 lavender stalks (25 each). I understand the limit because there aren’t a lot of lavender bushes and there’s got to be some left over for future visitors!
I saw the tent with coolers for lavender lemonade and iced tea and was excited at first, because I assumed the drinks were complimentary. They aren’t. $ 2.50 for a 10 oz cup, which let the wind out of my sails a bit. They accept credit cards (they have a iPhone square credit card reader). They also sell shortbread cookies for $ 1 each.
I loved the lavender shop. I regret not taking photos inside the shop but I was consumed by taking in all the products and filling my shopping basket! I bought granola, lotion, sachets, teas, honey, a potted lavender plant, pancake mix, a cupcake, 6 pack of shortbread cookies. Which added up to $ 75!!! Yikes! I wish it wasn’t so expensive. And there were plenty more products I didn’t buy. Linen sprays, soaps, oils, and more. This shop is dangerous for those who love gourmet and homemade products.
It was a pleasant outing with my girlfriends, but a bit too far to go out of my way again and there really isn’t much to do. Try this place once though!

I decided to take the drive out here from DC to make a lavender wreath for the holidays. This is a small, family run farm. They have a ton of chickens and they sell farm fresh eggs here too.
The woman who runs the farm lives in one house, then there is a small lavender gift shop, and at the top of a small hill is her parent’s house where the lavender is. The owner and her helpers are very friendly and were happy to set me up with wreath making. They cut some fresh lavender, and provided mini-​ornaments, ribbon, and the grapevine wreath base to use for my wreath. It was super easy and everyone’s wreath looks really beautiful.
The gift shop has many lavender products; candles, soap, lotions, sachets, teas and a few other things. This is a really fun little get away from the city, with friendly people who are eager to share their love of the farm and lavender. I love my new wreath and it smells amazing!

I feel like I have to set some things straight with the negative reviews listed below.
First of all, I also purchased a living social deal and went there to use it, it states the lavender season ends at the beginning of July, I (as well as the negative reviewers) went in the beginning of July just after the season had ended). When I arrived, I went to the shop where they informed me that because the winter was so very harsh it killed most of their large plants and therefore there was not much to pick and were offering some various other flowers and wildflower blooms to substitute. Maybe this wasn’t explained to the others when they went but if they would have called ahead I’m sure someone would have explained it to them. They also told me their fall harvest would be much better and I can’t wait to go back and check it out!
Here are some great things about the farm that people forgot to mention:
The staff is so pleasant and welcoming, everyone met me with beaming smiles and were so helpful!
The little lavender shop they have is filled with beautifully aromatic lavender products! I purchased some hand lotion, soap, a cuppo mason jar lid and some other little trinkets.
They have a pen full of baby bunnies! There is a sign that asks you don’t pick them up but says you can pick some clover to feed and pet them, this was one of my favorite parts! They were so adorable! Also, there is a little farm cat that was hopping around playing with the bunnies!
There is a lovely little tent with seating where they sell lavender sweet tea and lavender lemonade, both were extraordinary! They also have the option of purchasing a mason jar with your pick to go and free water for those super hot days!
The lavender farm is surrounded by other farms which makes it a beautiful bucolic setting including a few old farm houses that are just brimming with history!
I know some people were disappointed in the lavender yield but I am totally excited to go back and gather some fall blooms and pick up some more lavender tea and snuggle some bunnies!

«This place is just like Provence!» said no person ever! Calling this a lavender «farm» is completely misleading and false advertising (I’m not sure where they got that photo on their website, but I didn’t see a single plant that was that size my entire visit, let alone a field of them!) It’s like a weird patch of ground in someone’s yard (they say it’s an acre’s worth), with black tarp, tiny plants, and nothing to do when the lavender has already been all picked over by previous guests. Port-​a-​potties are gross. Charging a cover charge to get in is insult to injury. Steer clear of any LivingSocial or Groupon-​like «deals» for this place! What a waste of my money and time (and gas to drive out there!).

The website for this lavender «farm» is totally misleading. The plants are in a sad picked-​over state and the place is overrun with weeds. The actual «farm» is very tiny and in very poor shape. It’s hard to believe that the pictures for this place on Unilocal (from a year ago) could be from the same place. Very disappointing and not worth the price of any admission let alone $ 6 per person.

I bought a livingsocial deal to use as an activity with my girlfriend. It’s a pretty decent place. I’m not too familiar with lavender or how it grows but the field isn’t what I pictured. It was a bit spotty but maybe that’s how lavender needs to grow. I expected lots of full rows of lavender. I don’t say this to insult the farm. They do have a pretty good operation going and they’re pretty accommodating. There’s a shop with all kinds of lavendar products, a fenced in area with bunnies that people can feed and hold, seating on the porch, a tent with tables for eating/​drinking, picnic areas, and some crafts that they help you make. They had a table where sold lavender cupcakes and lavendar lemonade. Both were very good.
I think this a good place for a couple but it’s also good for families. There is plenty of parking along their driveway.

While it was fun to travel some place new. The website and the accompanying pictures are not at all what what it looks like there. There is not a rolling landscape of purple lavender, there are a few plants and lots of black tarp. The bunnies are cute and we made the best of the trip but I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone. Overpriced and very disappointing.

Wish the ad wasn’t so misleading. The farm is very small and if you are expecting to see acres and acres of lavender field, go to Provence.

This was our third year! I am marking my daughter’s growth with each visit! First time she was only 6 or 7 months and she’s now ²⁄₁₂ and is fully engaged with cutting the stems. They have definetly expanded their kids area which includes a play house, rocking horses a bean bag toss game and bunnies! Soooooo what about the lavendar?! Well — they grow a few varitels and the staff are all extremly friendly, helpful and knowledgable. I learned alot today and even purchased my own plants (pray for me!). I highly recommend this as a great day trip! The other great thing is that there are some good wineries in the area, so you can even pair this with some winery stops! I am looking forward to going again next year! This has become a highlight of summer for me! So why not five stars, you may ask? Well, they have port-​a-​potties of which I am NOT a fan, but I love going there anyway!

I enjoyed it a lot, but I have to say I’m not sure I would have as much if I didn’t come with my 16 month old. It definitely is a place for the kids. He had so much fun playing with and feeding the bunnies, in the little toy house, and on the rocking horses. The lavender farm smelled very nice, but was smaller than I had imagined. The grounds, overall, is very beautiful and the lavender shop is filled with cute and wonderful smelling trinkets. I came home with a green tea lavender jelly.

Had a grand old time venturing out to Farmville, USA to visit Seven Oaks Lavender Farm with a friend who had a LivingSocial deal. It’s out past Gainesville, for those of you wondering just how far you’ll have to trek, but the drive is very pleasant, with lots of roaming hills, sprawling farmland, and cute cow pastures to look at.
The Lavender Farm itself is smaller than I imagined it would be, with only a small plot of land where the lavender actually grows. You walk up past the shop/​check-​in area, and are given a short introduction to the 4 kinds of lavender that they grow. They, you grab hold of a basket and a pair of scissors and go to town!
Now, here is a warning for the bug-​averse (ehhhm, like me). There are bees. EVERYWHERE. So, if you have an allergy, I suggest you bring that epi pen, lest you plan on making like Macaulay Culkin in My Girl (spoiler alert, though I admit I won’t really feel that bad for spoiling since the movie came out in 1991), where he got stung by hornets and died. Anyway, where were we? Oh yes, bees. Everywhere. Suckin’ on lavender and having a good time. They pretty much ignored us, but some of them were still big enough to warrant a squeal. What, you’re surprised? I’m a total pansy, you should already know this (just read my review of the Silver Eagle Group gun range if you need more proof).
ANYWAY. I think this is a really fun activity for you to take mom, or grandma, or your daughters, or granddaughters out to do. They have a little fenced area where there are some bunnies roaming around that you can go in and pet, and they have lavender-​lemon cupcakes, lavender tea, and lavender lemonade available to purchase as well. The shop carries a crapton of lavender items as well: lip balms, satchets, room sprays, dog collar tags, tea, shortbread cookies, lavender granola… the list goes on!
Really, the only negative is that the overall size being rather diminutive means that there’s not really a whole lot to do. You arrive, you ooh, you ahh, you cut some stems of lavender, you take a few pictures… I think we managed to kill maybe a little over half an hour, which is only half as long as it took to drive there, hahaha.

I came to Seven Oaks with my husband and son, and met a mom with her two kids. We had a blast! Staff were just so pleasant, the vibe was very relaxing, and the Lavender cupcakes and iced-​tea were out of this world! I want to bring back my parents and brother next week.
There is definitely something for everyone, from making crafts with the lavender you pick to playing with their bunnies to playing in the small house with miniature kitchen to just lounging and relaxing on the fields with a picnic. The Living Social deal was a nice perk for us to discover the place, but now I would go even without the discount.
I’m glad that I checked on Unilocal first, so I was prepared not to see huge fields of lavender. The trip was definitely worth it, and I would recommend it to others.

I was greatly disappointed. I expected much more from a lavender «farm». It’s a farm with a «plot» of lavender so I guess there is no fraud; just not what I expected. The pictures on their website are very misleading. Very. Misleading. The lavender plants were very immature and we really had to hunt for lavender blooms.
The farm is very pretty, it certainly is not worthy of a $ 6 admission fee, though. For your $ 6 donation, you get to enter the «plot» of lavender and snip lavender which you must buy by the stem so for $ 6 you get nothing. No tour. No education. No samples. Just disappointment. I suppose with the slim pickings of their small section of lavender plants they have to make money someway.
They really should charge more per stem and do away with the admission fee that way at least customers would get something for their money.
I felt bad because they charged my friend $ 6 to go into the lavender area (it’s not even big enough to call a «field») even though she declined the offer of a basket and scissors. I won’t be returning to Seven Oaks. I felt very taken advantage of when we left.

This place is way smaller than I expected and hardly a farm, more like small lavender patches. I honestly feel like to charge a $ 6 entrance fee is rather outrageous. I visited a lavender farm on San Juan Island that was about 20 times the size of this one, with no entrance fee at all. While this place is cute and I enjoyed taking pictures of the bees that buzzed around the lavender, it is not worth the entrance fee.

Cute, but not much to it. It’s a small field with a plot of lavender bushes. The cost of admittance ($ 6/​ea) and lavender stems (10c/​ea) far exceed the material worth of what you take home. You could spend about 30 minutes here and be done if it weren’t for the bunnies they sell at $ 10/​ea. My wife and I spent most of our time here after we finished cutting some lavender.
p. s. 12 cage-​free, farm fresh eggs = $ 3.50 on Sundays
p.p.s The ride to the farm is very scenic.