Welcome to Lion Springs Lavender Farm

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Welcome to Lion Springs Lavender Farm

LION SPRINGS LAVENDER FARM...the home of Carmel Caramels

*Founded in 2014*

WELCOME

Thank you for stopping by our web page. Lion Springs Lavender Farm, the home of delicious Carmel Caramels, specializes in growing culinary organic lavender and produces lavender honey from our bee hives at the farm. We are a family farm business that hand makes small batches of limited edition lavender and honey goods with fresh farm produce. Everything is produced at our female-run farm business. We’re located in the heart of Carmel Valley Village along the Carmel River in the Santa Lucia Mountains between Carmel and Big Sur, California, since 2014.

OUR MISSION

At Carmel Caramels, sourced at Lion Springs Lavender Farm, we strive to provide high-quality and sustainable agricultural products to create delicious gourmet caramel squares for our customers at our organic farm in Carmel Valley Village, California. We specialize in culinary, certified organic lavender, and calendula flowers, to cook with. We believe in ethical and responsible farming practices that benefit both the environment and the community. We have been dedicated to providing high-quality agricultural products since 2014. Our passion for agriculture drives us to constantly innovate and improve our products. We take pride in the fact that our products are sustainably sourced, hand-crafted at our certified organic farm, and we strive to be environmentally friendly. We aim to elevate human consciousness by making people happy, healthy, and harmonious with the therapeutic benefits and beauty of lavender.

SHOP

Please visit our farmers market booth at the Carmel-by-the-Sea Farmers Market, in front of Vesuvios Restaurant on Sixth Street, on Thursdays from 10-2…so you can sample delicious, lightly sea-salted, Carmel Caramel squares, (available only in Carmel!) Carmel Caramels are hand-crafted with sweet lavender honey from our own bee hives on our organic farm. Peruse the wonderful variety of lavender products, all of which, we make by hand at the farm. See you at the market!

If you missed the farmers market, swing by the wonderful outdoor patio at the beautiful, Carmel Valley Art Gallery, at 9 Del Fino Place, Carmel Valley Village to shop for local art and pick up some Lion Springs Lavender Farm products…available next to my oil paintings. Yes, I am an exhibiting artist at the art gallery. Gallery hours run Wednesday – Sunday 11:00am – 5:00pm.

Lion Springs Lavender Farm booth at the Carmel-by-the-Sea Farmers Market from 10-2 every Thursday.
Daphne Nixon at the Lion Springs Lavender Farm booth at the Carmel-by-the-Sea Farmers Market.

CARMEL CARAMELS

Lion Springs Lavender Farm is also the home of delicious Carmel Caramels. We hand craft mouth-watering, sea-salted lavender caramels with our sweet honey right here in our permitted home kitchen at the farmhouse. We use all fresh ingredients including a small touch of our homegrown organic culinary lavender. We hope you’ll love Carmel Caramels as much as we do. A portion of  our proceeds go towards the California Mountain Lion Foundation.

…sometimes Ziggy, the lavender Husky, is at the farmers market too. Her job is Led Gopher Control Manager at the farm.  
Daphne and Ziggy at the lavender farm

Lion Springs Lavender Farm is a certified organic, female-owned, small family business. We work hard to keep our wonderful, and much appreciated, customers healthy and happy. Therefore, shop local, stay healthy, and help small businesses!

We hope you love delicious Carmel Caramels as much as we love making them!💜

Our lavender is certified organic by  MCCO (Monterey County Certified Organic). We grow lavender using green, sustainable, organic practices to keep the environment healthy for our neighbors, friends, families, guests, customers, and local wildlife. Our bees help pollinate the neighboring fellow farms.

Honey bees at Lion Springs Lavender Farm, Carmel Valley, CA.

  

Our natural well supplies all our pure water, without chemicals, for our certified organic lavender crops.

The lavender is “deer-ly” loved at Lion Springs Lavender Farm💜

We had our first harvest in 2018, and an even bigger ones until our most recent harvest in 2022. We had a great crop of Royal Velvet, Edelweiss, Pink Melissa, Provence, and Grosso Lavenders…

Daphne Nixon harvesting the 2022 lavender crop at Lion Springs Lavender Farm
Daphne Nixon cutting the 2022 lavender crop at Lion Springs Lavender Farm

We have been able to make lavender sachets and lavender bouquets, and Carmel Caramels with our fresh organic lavender this year. We are greatly looking forward to our 2025 organic lavender crop!

Here at the farm we also make “Carmel Caramels”. We have a certified home kitchen permit to handmake Carmel Caramels right here at the farm. They taste delicious.

Delicious Carmel Caramels from Lion Springs Lavender Farm

We wish to use a portion of profits to go to the Mountain Lion Foundation to help save the endangered California Mountain Lions.  Therefore, when you purchase our products, we can help save mountain lions together one carmel at a time!💜

A Mountain Lion “springing” at Lion Springs Lavender Farm