The annual Lavender Festival in Kuna, Idaho is a must-see event. It is not just a magnificent field of lavender, which is enough in my book. It is actually a U-Pick Lavender field! People can sign up and receive a pair of scissors and a basket so that they could then enter the fields and snip their own lavender. There is a modest charge for this, $5 a bundle.
But there is more! It is indeed a festival. Plenty of tables and chairs line the fields where people can sit and relax under the umbrellas and watch all the butts of the crowds amidst the lavender as they bend down to snip the flowers. There are probably more than a dozen booths in the shade under the trees where people sell everything from lavender bread, lavender cookies, to jewelry, hats, photographs, and artwork of all kinds.
There are food and drink as well as live music. A young woman, Renee Ross year played instruments and sang beautiful calming melodies.
The festival is produced by The Lavender Merchant in Kuna, Idaho. Depending on where you live in the Boise area, this is usually a short fifteen to thirty-minute drive.
Note – Since this event takes place usually in early July when the Idaho sun is attempting to burn its laser rays through the earth to China, wear sunscreen and big floppy hats!
