Photos: Lavender Festival

Posted at 6:20 pm June 22, 2014
By Oak Ridge Today Staff 2 Comments

The 16th annual Lavender Festival was Saturday in Jackson Square in Oak Ridge. The Oak Ridge FARM Market is in the foreground, and the festival is in the background. (Photos by Ray Smith)

The 16th Annual Lavender Festival was on Saturday in Jackson Square in Oak Ridge. The herb fair included more than 100 vendors, exhibits, and demonstrations featuring products and information related to gardening, cooking, health, aromatherapy, and all things herbal.

Throughout the square, vendors offered live plants, herbs, art, crafts, herbal products, jewelry, baskets, pottery, wooden utensils, and more. Sample foods made with herbs were available, and there was also grilling with herb demonstrations by local chefs.

The Oak Ridge FARM Market was open across the street from the festival, local musicians were featured throughout the day, and children’s activities were available.

Vendors said they were very busy at the well-attended festival on Saturday morning. An afternoon storm dampened the activities, but many festival-goers continued to shop and enjoy the music.

The Lavender Festival was preceded by an Herb Luncheon on Friday.

Here are photos by Ray Smith. See the complete album here.

Angela Collins and Barbara Pettigrew at Lavender Festival

Angie Collins and Barbara Pettigrew relax and enjoy the Lavender Festival in swinging style!

Quinlin Russell exhibits some excellent face painting.

Lavender bunches.

The morning was busy and the sidewalks at Jackson Square were jammed with shoppers, but an afternoon thunderstorm dampened activities at the Lavender Festival on Saturday. Still, some festival-goers continued to shop and enjoy the music.

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