If a two-day farm festival filled with U-PICK lavender, live music, artisan booths and pony rides sounds like your kind of weekend getaway, pack up the family and head to Lavender Lane in Milan—just ...

Tucked away in the hills of Union County is a farm growing the sweet-smelling specialty crop called lavender.

“So I ordered 300 little lavender plugs; I knew nothing about lavender,” McPherson said. “In fact, I didn’t even like lavender. When the boxes came, they literally looked like those Dunkin ...