Hi Margaret🙂 What a GREAT video review of the festival! Stephanie actually happens to be a cousin of mine, and she is carrying on a family tradition in agriculture (in the non-traditional field of lavender) with her husband and young son. She is an intelligent and highly educated person, and could have gotten a high paying job in the corporate world, but chose the challenge of farm life instead. The name of her company - Tullamore (Tull-a-more) Lavender Co, is a nod to the heritage of our ancestral farm in the old hamlet of Tullamore, Ontario. Tullamore used to be a thriving village at one time - a hub for agriculture, and an overnight stop for folks on horse and buggy going north from Toronto to Mono Mills, Orangeville, and points north. Much of the area has been swallowed up now by new housing, commerce, and industry. So sad for those of us that have fond memories of those days "out in the country". Thanks again, for this wonderful video!🥰
Hi John - thank you for the lovely comment and backstory! I know exactly how you feel - I'm always so saddened when I see a farmhouse, that was once a family home, all boarded up with a huge billboard out in front advertising the 'wonderful' housing development/apartment building that will be going in its place. Truly love the fact that the company was named after a town with such personal meaning - it really does make it that much more special❤
Hi Margaret🙂 What a GREAT video review of the festival! Stephanie actually happens to be a cousin of mine, and she is carrying on a family tradition in agriculture (in the non-traditional field of lavender) with her husband and young son. She is an intelligent and highly educated person, and could have gotten a high paying job in the corporate world, but chose the challenge of farm life instead. The name of her company - Tullamore (Tull-a-more) Lavender Co, is a nod to the heritage of our ancestral farm in the old hamlet of Tullamore, Ontario. Tullamore used to be a thriving village at one time - a hub for agriculture, and an overnight stop for folks on horse and buggy going north from Toronto to Mono Mills, Orangeville, and points north. Much of the area has been swallowed up now by new housing, commerce, and industry. So sad for those of us that have fond memories of those days "out in the country". Thanks again, for this wonderful video!🥰
Hi John - thank you for the lovely comment and backstory! I know exactly how you feel - I'm always so saddened when I see a farmhouse, that was once a family home, all boarded up with a huge billboard out in front advertising the 'wonderful' housing development/apartment building that will be going in its place. Truly love the fact that the company was named after a town with such personal meaning - it really does make it that much more special❤
I grow the Munstead lavender. Bonny
I'll be adding that one to my garden for sure!