And there's my beautiful daughter. She helped plant this with me. Now she's away at college.

You've got a great dad Julia, I know you are proud of him.

So great to see this, this Father’s Day Weekend! Please give your dad a big hug, and tell him Happy Fathers Day (and Go Army, Beat Navy!). One day a year, but together we are one. I have his 6 and know that he has mine!

Lavender Dad and Lass ! (Lass is Scottish for Daughter. 😄) Saying Hi from Sunny Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 . . . Wow we are having the best Summer Temps ever ! OK it's mid to upper 20s C (75+F) that's Hot for us. . . 🌞 Mind you its great Lavender growing conditions for those beautiful fragrant Flowers. I have lots of Lavender in my Garden : English varieties, and the French Papillion 'butterfly' type too. . . Just lovely. 🤗 My Bees really love those Lavender Flowers and the Nectar from them. Yes it makes wonderful Honey. Tip : Beekeeping If you have any young Transplant Trimmings, off Cuts. Or Harvest Stalks, Debris after the Flower Cutting : Keep a little to add to your Bee Smoker. 👍 You will have the best and calmest Bee Hive Inspection ever. And the Beek will be chilled out as well. 😉 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2023 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Do you Sell Homestead Items ? Tip : Baking Don't know if you like Shortbread : (Cookies.) Its one of Scotlands Nations Food favourites. It's amazing if you make "Lavender Shortbread" ! The True Scottish Recipe takes the " 2, 4, 6" level of Ingredients List. Easy to remember. x2 Ounces of White Sugar. x4 Ounces of Chilled Butter. x6 Ounces of Plain White Flour (not bread flour !) And a Sprinkling of Dried Lavender Flower Buds. Yes for you Guys at the Lavender Farm. Others : Try Lemon Zest, or Orange Zest instead. Recipe : Add Sugar and Sifted Flour to a Bowl. Then Cube that Chilled Butter into small pieces. With your Finger Tips (or in brief episodes Blitz in a Food Processer : You want crumbly Dough ! Not a combined sticky mess.) 'Cool' is key here. If your Hands or Kitchen is really warm. Add the Bowl to a Fridge and Cool your hands under Cold Water. : You want a light Crumbly pressable smooth Dough (not oily, because the butter got 'warmed up' to much !) Roll out Dough until 1/4 to 1/2 " (inch) thickness. A Marble Counter Top or Glass Cutting Board works too. Or if its just a Wooden Surface : Chilled the Dough well before rolling it out. If Cut Cookie Shapes it's:1/4 " Thickness. If Traditional Scottish style "Fingers" : its 1/2 " Re Fingers : Roll Dough out to a Rectangle : Cut with a Knife into x1 Inch Strips Long. And then Cut again, across so each Finger is approximately x3 Inches in size. (Think Fish Fingers !) 😄 Get a Fork and use those x4 Tines to indent a regular even imprint of x4 Dots down each Shortbread. This helps them bake evenly. And looks pretty in the end presentation. Add to a non Stick Cookie / Baking Tray, Sprinkle with some White Sugar and a few Lavender Flowers. Bake in a preheated Oven around 180 C for around x15 to x20 Minutes or so. You want them baked but still 'Pale' in colour. They should be Baked and Firm to the touch. While still warm : Sprinkle on more Lavender Sugar / or regular Sugar if doing Plain or other flavours. Allow to cool. Store in a Tin. And Enjoy ! They should 'Snap' and melt in your Mouth. Once you eat one. You will eat one they are gone. 😎 (Don't bother with any butter substitute it will not be nice. Shortbread needs to be buttery! For future Baking . . . If you have time to do so. [Prepare ahead of time.] Get a large Lidded Jar to store say x1lB (x16 oz) of your White Sugar. Add about x4 oz of your Dried Lavender Flowers to this Sugar, store in a dark Cool place. . . to get "Baking Lavender Sugar" in a few weeks and or months. The Lavender Flower 'essence' will steep into the Sugar to flavour it. Don't attempt to try and replicate this using Lavender Essential Oil : it's way to Strong and Pungent ! It's horrible to eat, so use that infused Sugar instead. No problem adding more Sugar and Lavender Flours to a New Jar, shake it up and add the original infused Sugar on top. That way you will have Lavender Sugar ready to make Lavender Shortbread all Season long. Sweet. 🙃

Thank you. I love it.

You bet! Feel naked without my pocket knife. Lost it for a day and couldn't function! I also always have a small flashlight in my pocket. Has come in handy many times. I was in a bathroom in a large building and the power went off. I could not have found my way out with my flashlight.

Ryan is solid!

Our honey probably won't be ready til August sometime we hope, as this is our first year for honey.

Thank you

Absolutely! That's a Hinderer knife from Ohio!

Glad you liked it!

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Thank you! Will do! This is the second one I have made and I love making these "therapeutic" videos because we live in times that call for a "time out" and take a break video in our lives.

Our pleasure!

Glad you enjoyed it

Ryan has a dream and it is a pleasure to talk with him and to see his passion for life.

Thanks brother.

Semper Fi

Yup, Sheri and I talked about the video how it would be different, but we decided it's fun to take a different approach every now and again.

Close there's another area not in the video. About 3 to 4 acres planted now and a few more acres to go

The farm is actually 12 acres as well on the other side is our greenhouse with more potted lavender and plugs. Hope yours is doing well too.

@@starklavenderfields the land im using is family land so im using my honey money and other profits to fund a 20 acre property. I am a Texas vet so I have VLB loans I have access to once I find the right property.

Everyone does I think.

Thanks for watching!

I think so too!

A few livestreams ago we offered half price. Stay plugged in to the livestreams. We often give classes away there. www.honeybeesonline.com/live

Welcome to the channel and to beekeeping.

Glad you enjoyed it. We really need to support people with a passion like this!

​@David Burns totally agree David...

Yes most varieties are. Lots of deer next to us.

People thought it was too humid in illinois plus alot of people I talked to were buying Spanish lavender at the big retail stores saying it's a perennial when it's a zone 7 plant and we are zone 5b