Red Hill Lavendar Farm and Café is a place where calm returns and time slows gently. There’s something special about things coming full circle. After a period of closure, Red Hill Lavender Farm and Café has reopened its doors, and stepping back in feels like returning to an old friend who’s only grown more beautiful with time. The interior has been given a polish. The trees, hedges, and lawns are in pristine condition. With the changing seasons comes a quiet bloom – not just in the lavender, but in the feeling this place offers to anyone who visits.

It’s the kind of destination that breathes with a natural indoor-outdoor rhythm. Every step – from the light-filled café to the wide deck, then into the fields and gardens beyond – feels like it was always meant to be taken slowly. Here, you can sip something warm, enjoy simple, country fare, and inhale the soft perfume of lavender carried on the breeze. It’s a place where connection to the land elevates every moment, and calm finds its way back to you without asking.

But Red Hill Lavender Farm is more than a moment – it’s a working, family-run farm with deep roots and strong values. Founded by the Crump family in 2007, it has grown into the Mornington Peninsula’s largest commercial lavender farm. Their lavender is hand-cultivated on 27 acres high on the Red Hill ridge – a location chosen for its ideal growing conditions and remarkable beauty. In full bloom during summer, the fields are a feast for the senses: visual, fragrant, peaceful.

At the heart of everything here is a simple philosophy – to remove the non-essential. In their botanical skincare range, that means creating products without synthetic preservatives, using only plant-based, natural ingredients, and ensuring each batch is small, fresh, and full of integrity. These products – along with culinary teas, oils, and lavender-infused treats – are available exclusively through the farm’s retail store and online. You won’t find them on supermarket shelves, and that’s the point.

Even their packaging is intentional – recyclable, biodegradable, and designed to be reused. Everything at Red Hill Lavender Farm reflects a commitment to simplicity, sustainability, and care – for people, for the land, and for the future.
There is also history here, deep and meaningful. Long before the lavender rows or café tables, this land was the traditional home of the Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nation. That presence is felt in the surrounding bush, the shifting light, and the sense of something greater that hums just beneath the surface.

Over the years, this property has worn many hats – an apple orchard, a fly-fishing lake, a winery, even a Greek restaurant. But today, as a lavender farm and café, it seems to have found its true calling – offering visitors not just something to do, but a feeling to carry with them. Something soft, quiet, and enduring.

Come for a walk through the fields, sip a tea on the deck, breathe in the scent of harvest bunches drying in the botanical tent, and take home something made with intention.

It’s not just a place; it’s a return to something essential. Open Thursday to Monday, it’s as close to perfect as you could expect.

PLEASE NOTE: THE LAVENDER FIELDS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR 2025