Our Story
From an open field on the plains of Hygiene to a home, a family, and a small distillery — this is how Rabbit Mountain Lavender came to be.
We planted our first lavender plant in 2017 on the high plains of Hygiene, Colorado — just a few miles outside Lyons, at the foot of the mountains that give our farm its name. The farm was just a field then — wide open, with a big beautiful view of snowy peaks and the flickering lights of houses on the mountainsides. We didn't have a house yet. Just a field, a plan, and a lot of hope.
Since then, David and I have built our home with our own hands, started a family, and gotten to know what it actually means to live inside a lavender field through every season.
At the peak of bloom, the buds sway heavy with bees — the kind of abundance that stops you mid-row and makes you just watch for a while.
We've seen monarch butterflies hatch on the blossoms, praying mantis hunt along the flower spikes, and a bobcat moving quietly through the hidden mounds between the rows.
Farming lavender started as a corporate escape fantasy more than ten years ago. The reality is not always as dreamlike as we imagined — plants die in too-cold winter winds, a wet spring takes more than you expected — but the cycles continue. And somewhere along the way this stopped being an escape and became just our life.
We grow several varieties of cold-hardy lavender and distill our own essential oil in small batches right here on the farm. That essential oil goes into our handcrafted body butter and everything else we make. We bring it to markets because we genuinely love meeting people, hearing their stories, and sharing what we've built out here on the plains of Boulder County.
We're your neighbors. We're glad you stopped by.
— Laura & David
Rabbit Mountain Lavender, Boulder County CO