• 1. Where to Stay
• 2. Where to Eat
• 3. What to Do
• 4. Insider’s Tip
• 5. An Oddball Day

Lavender is harvested for fresh and dry arrangements and for Carousel’s oils and soaps.    (Photo: Niko Christou of Carousel Lavender Farm. )

Follow the aroma of 15,000 organic lavender plants to Carousel Farm in Mechanicsville. Stop by on Saturdays to buy a plant or lavender-and-goat's-milk soap. Pick a pumpkin and sample fourteen varieties of home-grown apples (sun crisps, cameos) at Manoff Market Gardens in Solebury (closed Sundays). Call Betsy Jacobs (610-847-8452) to see what herb workshops (cooking, decorating) are scheduled at her Tinicum Herb Barn in Erwinna.

Published on October 11, 2006 as a web exclusive.