Alchemy Art Center presents: Up Up Up Crane Truck Circus Show in the Lavender Fields at the Alchemy Art Farm on Tuesday, Aug.

Our group gathered in the field to hear suggestions from Stephanie. First, she told us that the calyx in their business name refers to lavender’s flower growth that reaches down to the stem.

It's lavender we're loving upon, of course, and the later part of June is when the field-based blossom reaches its zazzy zenith around certain parts of the Golden State.

Over 100,000 people descended on the fields during July, the month when the lavender reaches full bloom, putting immense pressure on the nearby community of fewer than 3,000 inhabitants.

Bill MacElroy never thought he'd return to farming. Growing up on a farm in upstate New York near Saratoga Springs, he swore ...

As lavender lattes, lavender scones and more trend at national restaurants and retailers, one of the few Iowa farms growing the herb is localizing it in Johnson County.