FairView Farm - lavender farm, historic homestead and gardens

FairView Farm - lavender farm, historic homestead and gardens Press pause—just 35 mins west of Christchurch. Relax, reset, discover heritage, beauty, ritual, seasonal rhythm and a sense of belonging with us.

Picnic, make memories. Every purchase supports social, educational & environmental programmes on the land. 💜

We’ve got some fabulous people keen to have market stalls at The Lavender Festival. We’d like even more!  If you sell ca...
22/09/2026

We’ve got some fabulous people keen to have market stalls at The Lavender Festival. We’d like even more! If you sell cakes, cheese, bread, table linen, brocante (recycled household items), vintage, baskets, and anything else you can think of, get in touch!

🇫🇷 Bonjour!, we’re planning Selwyn’s first ever French-themed Lavender Festival, on our new farm, Sunday 17th January 20...
20/09/2026

🇫🇷 Bonjour!, we’re planning Selwyn’s first ever French-themed Lavender Festival, on our new farm, Sunday 17th January 2027.

Break out your beret and join us. Details and tickets will be available next week. 🇫🇷

🪻🧀🫙🧼Producers, makers and creators are welcome to apply for a stall - spaces limited.

🪻👨‍🎨We’re also looking for an artist to offer painting workshops in the lavender field during the day “arte en plein air”

🪻🧑‍🍳If you’re a chef and would like to offer a lavender themed cooking demonstration, please get in touch.

🪻🌼 Flower farmers welcome.

🪻🐩 If you’ve got a poodle, bring them along!

🪻🤷‍♀️ If you’ve got an idea for a workshop, please get in touch.

🪻🚛 🍟🥐If you’re a mobile food vendor, please get in touch. Spaces are filling fast.

🪻🎤 Tell your friends 💜🙏




The same lovely Rebecca, who is going to run yoga retreats in our lavender field this summer, is running yoga classes in...
19/09/2026

The same lovely Rebecca, who is going to run yoga retreats in our lavender field this summer, is running yoga classes in the Sheffield Hall next term. We’ve been going and enjoy building a stronger, balanced body. The gentle stretches are great, with simply delicious relaxation at the end.

Men & women are equally welcome. Sign up. Hope to see you there!

Meanwhile, in other news, our very own Mr C was elected 🪻Chairperson of the NZ Lavender Growers Association🪻, at the rec...
16/09/2026

Meanwhile, in other news, our very own Mr C was elected 🪻Chairperson of the NZ Lavender Growers Association🪻, at the recent 30th anniversary national conference. (Hence the cake 🎂 😋)

Congratulations! 💜💜 We’re so proud of you and excited for what you’ll bring to Aotearoa New Zealand’s growing lavender industry. We’re looking forward to seeing new relationships, ideas and innovations tested at home on the farm too 😇🧐

Day 5, presenting our Essential Oil.If you need the deep relaxation that comes from English lavender’s finest NZ grown, ...
16/09/2026

Day 5, presenting our Essential Oil.

If you need the deep relaxation that comes from English lavender’s finest NZ grown, all natural, 100% pure bliss in a bottle, you need 10mls of our Essential Oil.

Your health & wellbeing starts with our healthy soil & healthy plants. Steam distillation within hours of being picked locks the lavender’s therapeutic properties within the oil. It’s a process that hasn’t changed for 4,000 years.

Since 1905, FairView Farm and the homestead gardens have valued history while supporting innovation. Our Essential Oil is testimony to that. Try it and see for yourself.

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Day 4 presenting our small batch, Selwyn grown, all natural product range is  . 🛀🚿🧼Before you turn away ‘coz you don’t h...
14/09/2026

Day 4 presenting our small batch, Selwyn grown, all natural product range is . 🛀🚿🧼

Before you turn away ‘coz you don’t have a bath, let me reassure you that our bath oil works in the shower too!

I absolutely love this stuff for its gentle relaxing effect. After a day in the garden, there’s nothing like lavender bath oil to rejuvenate.

🛀 Just 4 drops in a deliciously deep bathtub is enough to fragrance the whole room..
🚿 In the shower, 2 drops on a damp face cloth, rubbed all over, smells and feels so good..

Made with our signature recipe of 100 % pure NZ grown English Lavender essential oil, and just the right amount of pure Calendula essential oil for its gentle hydration and extra soothing, anti inflammatory effect.

Buy it online and received 10% off your first online order https://fairviewfarm.org.nz/products/lavender-essential-oil-copy

Day 3 presenting product: Lavender   🪻Our massage oil is 100% natural, like the rest of our product range. The quality a...
12/09/2026

Day 3 presenting product: Lavender 🪻

Our massage oil is 100% natural, like the rest of our product range. The quality almond oil base ensures it glides easily and eventually absorbs beautifully, leaving no sticky residue. The proportions are important for a long massage feel.

We add top quality English lavender essential oil (the therapeutic stuff) for its relaxing, calming effect, plus some calendula essential oil for extra anti inflammatory effect. The result is lightly fragrant, and feels oh so good on the skin. 💜

I keep a bottle in the bathroom as a lovely morning moisturiser when I get out of the shower, and one beside the bed, for those nights after a long day in the garden when the muscles need a little help to relax. It works! It’s fun seeing the tester in the shop used as a gorgeous hand moisturiser, when they try before they buy, so its probably used at home the same way 😊💜

Get yours or gift a friend with 10% off your first online order
https://fairviewfarm.org.nz/products/example-essential-oil-different-one

How’s this as a beautiful use of FairView’s daffodils and tulips ?! In their personal life, Seeds of Change (flower farm...
11/09/2026

How’s this as a beautiful use of FairView’s daffodils and tulips ?!

In their personal life, Seeds of Change (flower farmer and florist) were on church flower duty this week, and this is what they created. 💥 Lucky church goers!!

Day 2 presenting our small batch, hand made, lavender Products:  has recently become my favourite (it changes, depending...
11/09/2026

Day 2 presenting our small batch, hand made, lavender Products:

has recently become my favourite (it changes, depending what’s going on in my life 😊). Made of 100% pure Lavender hydrosol, with no additives, this is English lavender at its finest. The smell is slightly sweet, almost like toffee, but with that lovely light lavender fragrance that typifies Angustifolia lavenders. 🪻💜

😴 It calms the mind to aid sleep. 💤 🪻Interestingly, one night when I had cramp, I tried spraying it directly on my skin, thinking it might calm my mind if nothing else 😊 but voilà, no cramp! I’ve continued using it for cramp, and to ease into a deep sleep, and it’s great! 😴🪻

Lavender is known to have anti inflammatory and antispasmodic properties, but I was surprised our Pillow Spray, with just hydrosol, worked on my skin. I’ve since tried it on neuralgia and again, it settled the pain almost instantly.

💥 A customer sent me a note yesterday saying “I am loving the spray, it’s so real, unlike any other lavender product I’ve tried before”.💥

Wow! Thanks Emma. Our products are real, healthy from the soil they’re grown in up to the way they’re handled, bottled and sent to you. It’s often an unconscious thing, knowing what feels right, feels healthy, feels good, feels real. You’ve noticed it outright 💜🙏

Buy it online and get 10% off your first order https://fairviewfarm.org.nz/products/lavender-pillow-spray-1

Day 1 presenting our products: Our Linen Spray is 100% natural, Lavandula angustifolia hydrosol with a touch of extra la...
10/09/2026

Day 1 presenting our products:

Our Linen Spray is 100% natural, Lavandula angustifolia hydrosol with a touch of extra lavender and citrus essential oil. It smells divine, lightly floral and gently refreshing.

We use it on the skin as a perfume, on clothes or furnishings to boost mood, to freshen the room if the dogs are a bit smelly(!) and even found it can help ease my mum’s dementia confusion. Other people have told us they use it to ease depression, clean their windows and/or as a facial spritz! 🪻In the olden days, bedsheets were aired on top of lavender plants to gently perfume the linen, and kill off any bugs. With no chemical additives, our linen spray can be used in so many ways, with or without bugs 🪻

In plain English, I make the Linen Spray with lavender ‘flower water’ - that’s what comes out of the still when we heat the flowers over water using steam distillation - with just the right amount of lavender and lemon essential oils.

Buy our Linen Spray online and receive a 10% discount on your first purchase
https://fairviewfarm.org.nz/products/lavender-linen-spray

Let us know how you use yours!

Address

FairView Farm, Waimakariri Gorge Road
Sheffield
7580

Opening Hours

Thursday 11am - 4pm
Friday 11am - 4pm
Saturday 11am - 4pm
Sunday 11am - 4pm

Telephone

+64221968899

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