Young Living Lavender Farm

Last Tuesday, I jet setted off by myself to attend the Young Living Convention in Salt Lake City. 

In the airport, all set with my books, phone, water, and Evy's Tree wrap. I almost always travel with this wrap, because it's light weight, but also makes a perfect blanket for the girls, or I can put it on if I'm cold. 

Once my flight landed, my uncle, cousin, and friend, Jill picked me up from the airport. I got in late, so we settled in the condo, and went to bed! 

Wednesday morning, we were up early for the drive to Mona Utah, where one of Young Living's farm is. 

First of all, Utah is gorgeous! I've never been to Utah, but the mountains were breath taking. Salt Lake City reminded me a lot of Boulder, Colorado. 

Here's a fun fact, about all of Young Living's farms- they're completely open to the public! Anyone and everyone can visit their farms! 

We had to wait in line to get in, but thankfully the line moved quickly. As a bonus, we enjoyed the mountain view! 

We visited the stable and horses first. I took lots of pictures of the horses for Adalyn. She is obsessed with horses! 

After seeing the horses, we opted for a Ningxia Red smoothie, which was more of a drink because the machines weren't meeting the demand of people wanting the drink! So, they weren't quite frozen. But, they were just as tasty!

I mean, this view. 

We had to wait a sweet forever before being able to see the distillery, but once we got close, we could see all of the juniper that was being distilled that day. There was just a mountain of juniper! It smelled so good! 

This distillery is pretty small, but we were able to see the heat tanks up close. 

And when that sign says HOT, it's correct! You could feel the heat just standing next to them. 

Mountains and Juniper... yes, please! 

At the distillery, we met Dr. Cole Wolley.  I didn't recognize him, even though I follow him on Facebook, and I totally embarrassed myself by saying, "What do you do?" I just thought that he might be a manager of the farm. Nope, he's an essential oil educator and independent researcher. 

Later in the week, I went to one of his seminars and learned a bit about the chemistry of essential oils. I can now successful say sesquiterpenes. 

After the distillery, we planted baby lavender. 

There was a huge fan of goldenrod! Ladies, your man needs this! Ha! 

We toured all of the fields, and then we headed to the field where they were planting Lavender. 

See my little lavender plant.

I was able to put it in the ground, and get my hands dirty a bit! 

After planting lavender, we enjoyed the gardens for a little bit. 

The day went by so fast! It was seriously breathtaking, and I absolutely love that Young Living owns their farms, allows other to visit, they use no chemicals, weed fields by hand, and distill and bottles the essential oils themselves. For more on that visit the Seed to Seal website. 

I'll be back in September visiting the farm, and I can't wait to see everything again!