DIY Lavender Crafts Workshop

Friday, July 7, 2023

3 pm – 5 pm

If you love all things lavender, join us for an afternoon of DIY Lavender Crafts! Enjoy experimenting with using lavender to warm our bodies, scent our houses, and feed our families. We will make lavender sachets, herbes de Provence, lavender sugar, lavender oil, and lavender infused syrup for summer cocktails.

Lavender has a wonderful scent that can be used to help you relax, sleep better at night, and even reduce your stress levels. It is one of the most common aromatherapy herbs used to promote relaxation and balance positive energy.

Learn some lavender history and growing tips during a walk to our lavender bed in the Museum Herb Garden with Happy Griffiths, Museum Herbalist Emeritus, Susan Quinlan, Museum Garden Coordinator, and Nan Munsey, Museum Village Gardener.

Enjoy lavender refreshments and take home recipes and your handmade goodies!

“Lavender, sweet lavender,

A scented purple haze.

With radiant lilac flowers,

I stand and look amazed.”

by Doreen E. Hampshire

Class size is limited to 12. Advance registration is required.

Museum Members – $35/person

Non-Members – $40/person

Want to know more about Happy Griffiths?

In 1987 Happy Griffiths designed and planted an 11,000 square foot herb garden at Enfield Shaker Museum based on the herbs the Shakers had grown and used. To help maintain this garden, she started and ran a volunteer program called the Village Gardeners. She has served as the president of the Hanover Garden Club and the New Hampshire Herb Society. In the June 1988 issue of Yankee magazine she was named Cook of the Month and then in September of 1995 in the Yankee Magazine 60th Anniversary issue she was one of the 60 people chosen “who make New England New England”. Happy continues to teach and lecture on Herb Gardening around the Upper Valley.

Want to know more about Susan Quinlan?

Susan is a retired registered nurse who has been creating and caring for gardens for forty-nine years. She is a self taught and dedicated organic gardener living in Canaan, NH. She grows flowers, herbs, vegetables, perennials, and shrubs on a northern slope. Susan creates wreaths for all seasons and gives hands-on workshops in wildcrafting. Her passion is to create connections between people and plants.