A GROWING LAVENDER PARTNERSHIP

Lavender farming has blossomed into working, loving relationships between Angel Farm and Sequim Lavender Farm, located just down the road from each other in the scenic Sequim Valley of northwestern Washington State. Business partners, Gail Wicklein, of Sequim Lavender Farm, and Cathy & Leeon Angel, of Angel Farm, are like-minded when it comes to business, bringing skills to the partnership which complement one another. Aspiring to provide the highest quality lavender and lavender products in a beautiful, welcoming environment, while building partnerships which benefit our community are mutual goals on which our partnership is grounded.

Five acre Sequim Lavender Farm was established in 1998 when Gail's father, residing in Alaska, asked her to find him a future retirement property in Sequim. It was her father who read about lavender, suggested Gail grow it, and Sequim Lavender Farm became a family farming partnership between Gail, her Mom and Dad. Gail's two teenage daughters are also integral, skilled helpers on the farm, as Gail believed it important "to teach my girls how to work instead of giving them things. I feel it is keeping them closer to our family instead of disconnected like a lot of kids we know."

Sweethearts since the 11th grade, Cathy and Leeon Angel have never shied away from new adventures, raising llamas, offering charter sailing services, and now enjoying Leeon's newest passion for flying, exploring the U.S. in our own airplane when the lavender fields are dormant. Angel Farm is a 20 acre heritage farm in the heart of the Sequim Valley surrounded by the majestic Olympic Mountains, purchased by the Angels in 1999. Our fabulous old wood barn has been transformed from a dairy barn into a lavender drying and processing barn, with approximately 30,000 lavender bouquets hanging for drying following the annual joint harvest of Sequim Lavender Farm and Angel Farm - a sight and scent to behold!

Angel Farm and Sequim Lavender Farm share the commitment to growing our lavender naturally, without pesticides, herbicides, or non-organic fertilizers. Weeds are controlled by weed barrier cloth and by old fashioned hand picking. Our customers through the years have told us time and again how exceptionally beautiful and aromatic is our lavender, a great source of pride and satisfaction for us.

Gail loves to market our joint lavender, and Cathy & Leeon do most of the processing, packing and shipping from the Angel Farm barn. Together, our skills and ingenuity have made our lavender partnership greater than what either of our farms could accomplish separately.

Both Angel Farm and Sequim Lavender Farm are partners in All Things Lavender, a year-round retail store in Seattle's historic Pike Place Market. Each farm has it's own individual line of lavender products, the best of which are offered on this web site.

Visit historic Angel Farm, partnered with Sequim Lavender Farm, during the annual Sequim Lavender Festival, always the third weekend in July (see our festival web page or visit www.lavenderfestival.com for details on this very enjoyable and much loved festival).