Cee's Fun Foto Challenge

This week's challenge at Cee's Fun Foto Challenge. THINGS PEOPLE GROW


There are lots of farms around Toronto that grow lots of good stuff. This is a sampling of our day trips this summer.

There are lavender fields.

In Stratford we grow plants with a theatrical theme.

Foto Tunes

Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme.

August 2017 - Milton ON

Just outside Toronto, Terre Bleu is a lavender farm open to the public with an entrance fee.

Lavender Fields Forever

Terre Bleu

August 2017 - Toronto ON

Imagine you don't have to fly to Provence to see fields of lavender. And the smell!

Terre Bleu is the largest lavender farm in Ontario with over 35,000 plants and eight varieties on 60 acres.

There is an entrance fee of $10 plus tax on weekdays and $15 plus tax on weekends. Weekends get extremely crowded and they use police to control the traffic.

Even on a Tuesday they had run out of lavender ice cream, although it was not that crowded.
 

Walking the trail.

A break from purple!

On our way back.

 So strange the lighting makes this look wintery!

Terre Bleu lavender is harvested throughout the summer starting in mid July for distillation and drying.