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Fresh air: Where City Slickers Can Get Their Hands Dirty

Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel,  May, 2006  

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Lavender

Armed with a basket, scissors, and a twist tie, you'll set off into the lavender fields (which come into full bloom in July) to pick bouquets. Owners Barbara and Gary Hanna, software industry refugees from Seattle, also give out free dabs of lavender honey.

Who knew? There are some 200 varieties of lavender-Lost Mountain alone has more than 120-and each emits a different fragrance. Plus, not all types of lavender are lavender. They can be white, pink, blue, or purple.

Info: Lost Mountain Lavender, Sequim, Wash., 888/507-7481, lostmountainlavender.com, tours free, bouquets $5.

Honey

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Outfitted in a full-body suit, a net hood, Wellies, and gloves, you'll take out the frames that hold the honeycomb, remove the debris that collects on the frames, and make sure the queen is alive and well. The complicated process of collecting honey is left to the professionals, but you ...