Getting Serious with Lavender, Bees, Business and Blogs?

I am new. I am green. I grow and distill lavender. I have been doing this now for roughly 5 years. Growing it longer, but distilling for about 5. I still feel like I am barely touching the surface about what I am doing. I am starting to really appreciate what another distiller said to me awhile back. "Distilling is an art." When I first started, I just fired up that still, put the lavender flowers all inside, set it all up, and waited and thought wow, I got this! Um, yeah, no. Yes, but no. The harvesting of the lavender plays a big part, when you harvest and what time of day and what variety. The weather, is it windy? In northern Nevada it is always windy. That plays a part, the temperature of the still. Is it a steam or hydro distillation? Stainless steel or copper? And there is oil in the stem! I am learning. I will forever be learning.

Soon, I will be adding bees to our farm. Actually a company called, Battle Born Bees will be coming over and I will be learning from them. I have no idea what I am getting into with this. I am very exited to have my own hives, honey and beeswax! I use beeswax in my lotion bars and lip balm. Harvesting and using my own is something special. And of course there is the lavender honey! As a novice, it's a bit intimidating, but I am pretty good at just plunging forward and seeing what happens.

Business. Not my favorite part. Here is section that I need to know to really succeed and I again, well, you guessed it. I am winging it. I am learning and going through the pain of messing up, redoing, and starting again. I always wanted to do all of this, but timing was never right. It still isn't, but here I go. I am saying this because I know there are those reading this that are wanting to do something, but can't for whatever reason. I lived in a subdivision 10 years ago, home upside down in what we owed, two young kids and a postage stamp back yard. I had someone tell me that my dream was "not probable". What a motivating thing to say to me. Life is so short. Do the thing, get started and don't look back. I am doing something I love. Age doesn't matter, the time is now. I am not special, rich, or even that knowledgeable. I am just determined. P.S. I don't do blogs. P.S.S. I do blogs now.