Highland Springs Lavender
— twenty acres of purple, hand-cut in June.
Not only on a wall.
“Twenty acres of lavender in Cherry Valley, planted on what was once a stagecoach stop on the road to the desert. The farm sits in the San Gorgonio Pass, between the San Bernardino Mountains and Mount San Jacinto, where the wind moves through almost every afternoon. The vera variety is hand-cut from early June through mid-July, the festival running alongside the harvest each weekend. By midsummer the field reads as a long lavender line against the dry hills behind it. The bees are there before anyone else is. The oil is distilled on the property in a single stainless still.
Highland Springs Lavender, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
The place, in three passes.
Highland Springs Ranch and Inn occupies 2,400 acres in Cherry Valley, an unincorporated community in Riverside County, California, in the San Gorgonio Pass between the San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountains. The property dates to 1853, when Dr. Isaac Smith established a stagecoach stop along the route to the desert, and it became Riverside County's first registered historical landmark soon after. The lavender farm, known as 123 Farm, covers 20 acres of the larger property and is reached from Interstate 10 at Beaumont, about twenty minutes west of the Cabazon wind farms and seventy miles east of downtown Los Angeles. The address is 10600 Highland Springs Avenue, at the western edge of the pass.
The lavender bloom begins in early June and runs through mid-July, tracking the same window across most of southern California. At 123 Farm the dominant variety is the vera strain of Lavandula angustifolia, the English lavender that has been cultivated for fragrance and medicine in European gardens since at least the 16th century. Harvest is done by hand and the essential oil is distilled on the property in a single stainless still. The annual Lavender Festival, which began in 2004 and runs concurrent with the harvest, draws families from across the Inland Empire on weekends in June and early July; weekday evenings are noticeably quieter and the field reads cleaner against the early-evening light.
The Lavender Festival runs annually from early June through mid-July, with the 2026 edition scheduled for June 5 through July 19. Weekday hours during the festival are 5 to 10 p.m. and weekend hours are noon to 10 p.m. Outside the festival window the farm remains a working agricultural property and public access is limited. The address is 10600 Highland Springs Avenue, Cherry Valley, California, reached from the Beaumont Avenue exit of Interstate 10. Highland Springs Ranch and Inn, on the same property, was a favourite of Albert Einstein during his visits to Caltech in the early 1930s; the inn and restaurant continue to operate today.