About Us
Friends came to help plant the baby plants
LoCo Lavender is owned by Rose Echols and is nestled in a beautiful valley just less than a mile from the Tennessee River in Loudon County Tennessee. Preparations for the farm of began in the summer of 2011 when Rose began to research and visit knowledgeable lavender farmers. In May 2012, 2000 baby plants arrived across the country from Washington and with the help of many family and friends, were all in the ground within a month. In January 2016, Tennessee experienced an unusual weather event that Rose called the Polar Express, where temperatures dipped below zero for over 5 days. In the spring, Rose realized that she had lost most of my plants. It was a sad day as she walked among all the blackened lavender. Over time she has slowly added more plants and now has approximately 250 plants, which in hindsight is much more manageable! Rose mostly distills the lavender flowers into essential oil and makes a variety of products such as salves, soaps, lotions, etc. that she sells at local festivals and in a local store.