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Lavender Farm By Gabrielle Tieman-Lee
Straight from the pages of your favourite fairy tale, a magical place can be found just outside of Virgil where you can plunge yourself into a floral wonderland. Niagara Essential Oils and Blends, better known as NEOB Lavender, draws you in straight from the road. Perfectly round bushes of fragrant lavender scent the air surrounding the farm, wafting in through your window and pulling you onto their property like a magical force you just can’t fight. Harnessing the ancient restorative and healing powers of these plants and others, are owners Melissa and Robert Achal. What began as a flower business – supplying fresh cut flowers to stores across Canada – has since evolved into a large scale essential oil and natural health and beauty products operation. It all began when Melissa says she one day found her greenhouse had become filled with lavender. “We kept coming back to lavender,” said Melissa. “We started to read up on (lavender) and realized all of its properties and it developed into essential oils and our products from there.”
