About Us

 

           

Sleepy Bees Lavender Farm came into existence with the first planting of 1700 Phenomenal Lavender plants the first week of May 2018. We are Jerry and Holly McCabe  and we made the decision to bring lavender and honeybees to our farm just south of Lincoln Nebraska.  We had just purchased 21 acres in 2016, and then in February of 2017 found out our jobs were moving to South Dakota.  We didn't want to move, as our family was here and we loved our new place.  We had used lavender in our wedding on our land, and thought that you could probably grow anything in Nebraska!  We found out that isn't necessarily true. 

We planted 1700 plants first on three-quarters of an acre.  At the same time we installed 3 hives of honeybees in a clearing near the first plants. The vision is to have two complementing niche resources, lavender and honey bees, working together in unison.  We are focused on farming sustainably, using nothing on our farm that will harm, and plant native plants along with the lavender to encourage pollinators to come here and increase their numbers. 

We use lavender and lavender essential oil in all of our products, and love promoting the use of culinary lavender.  We are growing 7 different types of culinary lavender and love to have people try cooking with it!  

It has been 6 years so far, we are up to 2 acres of lavender a large herb garden, rows of other cutting flowers for people to use with the lavender at our U-Pick events.  

Our goal is to put up a building near the 2nd lavender field where we can put in a commercial kitchen, serve lavender goodies and drinks and produce our products more easily and in larger amounts.

Please check out the blog, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter for a more in-depth and ongoing story of our journey, as well as the website for all your shopping and gifting needs.  Thank you so much for your interest!