{"id":405,"date":"2015-07-20T21:39:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T01:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vchiasson.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2015-07-20T21:39:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T01:39:02","slug":"terre-bleu-lavender-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vchiasson.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/20\/terre-bleu-lavender-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Terre Bleu Lavender Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I visited the coolest place on Earth. Basically, I found heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Terre Bleu is a lavender farm that is located in Campbellville. They are going into their second year of being open to the general public. Upon arriving you will be greeted by one of the many friendly university students (who of course are going to school for something related to farming) and you will have to pay a certain fee to enter.<\/p>\n<p>The fee grants you a tour of the farm where you will see where they distill the lavender, where the apiary (bee hives) are and of course learn about the type of lavender plants in the fields (who know there was more than one type of lavender!)<\/p>\n<p>This place was so relaxing. I love lavender to begin with, so it was easy to fall in love with the farm. Sipping on lavender lemonade and eating some lavender ice cream was a <strong>good<\/strong> decision.<\/p>\n<p>Definite recommendation!<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"662\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/vchiasson.com\\\/index.php\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/20\\\/terre-bleu-lavender-farm\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:90870268}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 662px; height: 188px;\" data-original-width=\"662\" data-original-height=\"188\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 331px; height: 188px;\" data-original-width=\"331\" data-original-height=\"188\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/vchiasson.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/20\/terre-bleu-lavender-farm\/20150719_122958\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"327\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"184\"> <img data-attachment-id=\"406\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/vchiasson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/20150719_122958.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4608,2592\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G850W&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1437308998&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.8&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00076219512195122&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20150719_122958\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/vchiasson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/20150719_122958-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/vchiasson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/20150719_122958-800x450.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vchiasson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/20150719_122958.jpg?w=327&#038;h=184\" width=\"327\" height=\"184\" data-original-width=\"327\" data-original-height=\"184\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"20150719_122958\" alt=\"20150719_122958\" style=\"width: 327px; 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