Love
To care for people before transactions and remember that every person we encounter has immeasurable value.
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Our Story
Seeds of Faith.
Fields of Lavender.
What began with a few lavender plants grew into something we never could have fully planned ourselves—a farm, a family business, a place to serve others, and another opportunity to give glory to God.
“Behold, a sower went forth to sow.” Matthew 13:3 · KJV
Where it began
A Small Beginning, Faithfully Tended
Our story did not begin with acres of lavender, a greenhouse, shelves of products, or a carefully mapped business plan. It began much smaller—with a few plants, a love for growing, and seeds whose future we could not yet see.
In 2017, Sierra began tending a hobby farm in Traverse City with about 30 lavender plants. What started as curiosity became a genuine love for this remarkable plant: its fragrance, beauty, usefulness, resilience, and the simple joy of watching something carefully planted take root and flourish.
In time, that love grew into more plants, handmade goods, new ideas, and countless hours of learning. Lavender became more than a crop. It became part of the rhythm of our lives.
Our journey
One Season Led to Another
Like a field, our story has been shaped over time—through planting, patience, work, relationships, mistakes, learning, and grace.
2017
Thirty Lavender Plants
Sierra began growing lavender on her hobby farm in Traverse City. Thirty plants became the beginning of years of experimentation, learning, propagating, creating, and discovering just how much could be done with lavender.
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Two Paths Came Together
Andrew brought a background in entrepreneurship, marketing, and small business through ventures including Gone Beachin’ Apparel Company and Great Lakes Made. As Sierra's passion for lavender grew, Andrew stepped into that world alongside her.
Together we visited lavender festivals, walked craft shows, studied growers and products, learned the market, experimented with growing lavender from seed, and spent years building practical knowledge one experience at a time.
2023
Great Lakes Lavender Farm Was Born
In March 2023, our separate experiences came together as Great Lakes Lavender Farm.
On our 4+ acre property in Rockford, Michigan, we began building something larger than the original hobby garden—a working lavender farm with greenhouse production, plants, handcrafted products, wholesale growing, education, and room for new ideas to take root.
TODAY
Still Growing. Still Learning.
We have grown considerably since those first 30 plants, but we never want growth itself to become the purpose.
We want this farm to be stewarded well—to serve people, create beautiful and useful things, care for what God has entrusted to us, encourage growers, strengthen our community, and sow seeds far beyond the lavender field.
A year on the farm
Hung Out to Dry
Fresh-cut lavender gets hung upside down to dry. Here's a year of farm life, hung the same way. Pick a season, slide along the line, and tap any photo to see it bigger.
How we hope to walk
The Fruit We Want This Farm to Bear
Success means little if it costs us the character we are called to demonstrate. In the field, in our family, with our customers, and behind the scenes, these are qualities we pray will increasingly mark the way we work and live.
Joy
To find gratitude in the work, the harvest, the people we meet, and even the ordinary days between seasons.
Peace
To resist being ruled by hurry, fear, or comparison and instead trust God through both abundant and difficult seasons.
Patience
Farming makes this lesson unavoidable: roots develop before harvests appear. Some good things simply cannot be rushed.
Kindness
To treat customers, growers, vendors, neighbors, and one another with genuine care, generosity, dignity, and grace.
Goodness
To pursue what is right even when no one is watching and to make decisions we can place before God with a clear conscience.
Faithfulness
To keep our word, tend what has been entrusted to us, and remain dependable through changing seasons.
Gentleness
To remember that strength does not require harshness and that grace should shape both our words and our actions.
Self-Control
To practice discipline in our work, choices, words, priorities, finances, and ambitions rather than being controlled by them.
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance...”
Galatians 5:22–23 · KJV
Great Lakes Lavender Farm today
More Than a Lavender Field
Today, the farm brings together growing, creating, education, agriculture, commerce, community, and ministry—all rooted in the same desire to steward well what has been placed in our hands.
From Our Farm & Workshop
Our work has expanded from lavender plants into a broad collection of things grown, made, sourced, and developed around the plant we fell in love with years ago.
Lavender Plants
Plug Trays
Essential Oil
Hydrosol
Dried Lavender
Bath & Body
Home Goods
Culinary Lavender
Apparel
Farm Supplies
But Products Are Not the Purpose
A business can sell many things and still miss what matters most. We want what passes through our hands to become an opportunity for something greater: generosity, encouragement, relationships, service, and seeds of faith.
As the farm grows, we intend to use a portion of what God provides through it to help put Bibles and reminders of Jesus into people's hands, support ministry, and create opportunities to share the Gospel with love and humility.
The lavender may open a door. We pray that what matters eternally is what ultimately walks through it.
Small business. Real people.
A Family Farm at Heart
Great Lakes Lavender Farm is still a small, family-owned business. Sierra and Andrew run the farm together, accompanied—as any proper farm operation should be—by four furry supervisors: two cats and two dogs.
Behind every order are real hands. Behind every field are real hours. Behind every new idea are conversations, experiments, prayers, successes, setbacks, and plenty of dirt under our fingernails.
We are grateful for every customer who chooses a small farm, every grower who trusts us with part of their field, every family who puts one of our plants in the ground, and every person who allows something we have grown or made to become part of their home.
Meet the supervisors (and their staff)
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What matters most
All Glory Belongs to God.
We are thankful for this farm, but the farm is not our foundation. Lavender is not our identity. Business success is not our Savior. Whatever good comes from this place, we want it to point beyond us.
“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Jesus Christ · John 14:6 · KJV
Jesus Christ is the center of our faith and the hope we want to share. We will never do that perfectly. We are people in need of grace too. But our prayer is that this business becomes one more place where His goodness can be reflected, His Word can be planted, and people can be loved well.
Not unto us.
Not unto our farm.
Not unto our accomplishments.
To God be the glory.
Not unto our farm.
Not unto our accomplishments.
To God be the glory.
“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” — 1 Corinthians 10:31, KJV
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Thank you for being here
You Are Part of This Story
Whether you purchased one lavender plant for your backyard, trusted us with plants for acres of farmland, found us at a market, shared our work with a friend, prayed for us, or simply stopped here to learn—you have become part of this journey.
Thank you for supporting our family, our farm, and the work we are trying to do. We do not know exactly what every future season will hold. Farmers rarely do.
So we will keep planting. Keep tending. Keep learning. Keep serving. Keep sowing seeds.
With gratitude,Sierra & Andrew
