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Gourmet Caramels from Lion Springs Lavender Farm

Lightly salted and handmade with sweet lavender honey from bees at an organic family farm in Carmel.

Lion Springs Lavender Farm

Our Mission

At Carmel Caramels, sourced at Lion Springs Lavender Farm, we strive to provide high-quality and sustainable agricultural products to create delicious gourmet caramel squares for our customers at our organic farm in Carmel Valley Village, California. We specialize in culinary, certified organic lavender to cook with. We believe in ethical and responsible farming practices that benefit both the environment and the community. We have been dedicated to providing high-quality agricultural products since 2014. Our passion for agriculture drives us to constantly innovate and improve our products. We take pride in the fact that our products are sustainably sourced and environmentally friendly. We aim to elevate human consciousness by making people happy, healthy, and harmonious with the therapeutic benefits and beauty of lavender.

About Carmel Caramels

Our Caramels

Delicious Carmel Caramels are homemade with love at certified organic Lion Springs Lavender Farm with sweet lavender honey from our bee hives in Carmel Valley Village, California. We are a 100% women-owned, founded, built, and operated, family farm business. In a cottage kitchen, approved by Monterey County, we make soft, mouth-watering caramels with organic culinary lavender, grown on the farm with pure spring-fed well water. The clear, cellophane wrappers are biodegradable (not plastic) to keep our environment “green" with healthy, wholesome products with a small carbon footprint. Sprinkled with sea salt, Carmel Caramels have a light floral hint of home grown organic culinary lavender, and sweet lavender honey, for a heavenly taste. Customers love to eat Carmel Caramels as much as we love to make them!

It's nice to know, that in our hustle and bustle world, our organic lavender products are not mass-produced at a commercial factory, nor cooked in a polluted district. Rather, your caramel is homemade with natural ingredients, and no preservatives, at a beautiful, peaceful, healthy certified organic lavender farm in small batches with great care and good vibes in Carmel.

Once you unscrew the lid from one of our beehive-shaped glass jars of Carmel Caramels, untwist the biodegradable cellophane wrapper, and pop the heavenly-tasting caramel candy in your mouth, you’ll know right away that our caramels are not only unique, but so temptingly delicious that you will not want to stop eating them. They melt in your mouth and have a soft chewy texture that doesn’t stick to your teeth. The light, floral flavor blends perfectly with vanilla and honey to produce a special gourmet delicacy found only in Carmel. That’s because we use fresh locally-sourced ingredients from our family farm in Carmel Valley…and that is why they are called Carmel Caramels…Carmel’s unique, local, luxurious, confectionary treat.

When in Carmel, treat yourself to luxury in agricultural heaven, and enjoy Carmel Caramels.

You can buy scrumptious Carmel Carmels at the Carmel Valley Farmers Market at Mid Valley Center on Carmel Valley Road in Carmel Valley, California, from 10-2 on Sundays. Come by to sample delicious Carmel Caramels and see our line of other wonderful lavender products! You can also visit our online store by pressing the purple link, “Shop Carmel Caramels" button near the top of this page. We hope to see you soon at the Carmel Valley Farmers Market!

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The thing that makes me the proudest, and is my biggest accomplishment to date is that - despite family, friends, and acquaintances who scoffed, laughed and tried to discourage me about my ideas - I built a certified organic, culinary lavender farm from scratch, by myself, and developed culinary lavender products customers love to eat. They said I couldn't do it, but I did. Now, my lavender products are doing well and local stores want to sell them. I need to produce more products to supply stores. Plus, it makes me happy that members of the public request to visit the farm and I feel even prouder when they leave the farm filled with inspiration and joy with all they learned. I am proud that Carmel Caramels help improve lives because the surprising tastiness of Carmel Caramels opens people's minds to the wonderful potential possibilities of healthy organic lavender farming and culinary organic lavender for cooking. Being environmentally friendly, and helping local wildlife by farming organic without pesticides and herbicides, never tasted so delicious! I'm delighted my healthy products make the world a better, greener, happier, and healthier place.

Our Story

In 2014, I persevered with a dream of mine to start a local organic farm to create an environmentally beneficial, healthy, sustainable farm for our local community and as a plein painting sanctuary since I am an artist. My goal is to make people happy, healthy, and harmonious with the therapeutic benefits and beauty of lavender. I searched the American West for 8 years to find suitable soil on agricultural land to grow lavender in a beautiful, pollution-free location. Carmel Valley Village fit the bill so I worked hard to build a farm and plant lavender farm from scratch on a five and a half acre south-facing hillside. We named Lion Springs Lavender Farm after a mountain lion spotted drinking from our natural spring, so we donate a portion of proceeds to help endangered California Mountain Lions. We planted culinary lavender to cook with, and now specialize in culinary organic lavender.

Subsequently, since I love caramels...and since I am located in Carmel...I created a special Carmel Caramels recipe, of course! With lavender honey from our bees, and a pinch of culinary organic lavender from our lavender fields...I trademarked Carmel Caramels - a delicious, unique, locally sourced farm specialty made only in Carmel. This local product has become popular with locals and tourists who buy Carmel Caramels at farmer’s markets for souvenirs to remember beautiful Carmel. We love to see customers’ faces light up when they sample delicious, relaxing, healthy Carmel Caramels.

During the pandemic, at Carmel Farmers Markets, we started a 'special' selling 'Carmel Caramel Care Gift Bags' to help customers through this difficult time; this also helped our new business survive the pandemic and big Carmel Wildfire in 2020. Luckily, our home survived but ashes and smoke killed part of our crop.

We continue to replant our lavender due to support from farmers market customers who helped us get through not only the pandemic, but also the wildfires, Carmel River floods and storms, and finally the thirsty wild boars who tore up the lavender field searching for water during the devastating drought due to climate change. Through it all, we continue our mission to bring high quality, handmade, sustainable agricultural products sourced from a local organic lavender farm to our wonderful customers. Thank you very much for your support…and thank you for shopping local.

At present, as a trained professional artist, I am branching out with "plein aire" painting workshops at Lion Springs Lavender Farm. These small group painting sessions at the farm help bring the therapeutic health benefits of lavender to customers by grounding to the earth to experience firsthand, the sights, scents, sounds, and feel of an organic lavender farm. Being present at the organic farm helps raise awareness of organic practices that benefit our natural environment and it's life-sustaining, therapeutic benefits to humans, as well as brings the positive, inspiring, uplifting advantages directly to people.

The inspirational act of creation by painting outdoors, at a serene lavender farm, lifts our souls, and heals our hearts, bodies and minds. Carmel Caramels wishes to further benefit the earth, plants, people, and wild animals, in our community to teach others to paint outdoors at lovely Lion Springs Lavender Farm in the beautiful Santa Lucia Mountains of Big Sur near Carmel-by-the-Sea. So, get out your paint brush and come on down! I

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About Organic

Deer enjoying Lion Springs Lavender Farm’s healthy organic fields.

Giving Back

Lion Springs Lavender Farm supports the local community by giving private lavender farm tours to local school children and their parents so they can learn about organic farming; beekeeping; and about saving our local endangered mountain lions and other wildlife. Our lavender farm tours help create environmental awareness so people learn how bees pollinate the local crops around us so we can have food. At educational tours, children and parents are very inspired. Subsequently, they express how happy they are to be able to visit a local organic farm with their family to learn about how organic farming works and how it's good for our environment and local food chain. We practice sustainable farming so we don't harm the local Carmel River, and wildlife with pesticide or herbicides. As a result, our customers are thrilled by the wildlife at the farm because we don't poison the "pests" in the food chain. We have many golden eagles, great horned owls, bob cats, foxes, deer, turkeys, coyotes and the occasional mountain lion. Once, we even had a wolf siting because wolves have been documented in the newpaper as coming back to Monterey County after extirpation in the 1930’s. In addition, our customers express happiness knowing that part of their purchase helps save California Mountain Lions.

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Ask questions or just say hello!

We love to hear from you about what you're cooking and how you're doing. Email or us, and we will get back to you soon. Get more information at LionSpringsLavender.com

Carmel Caramels from Lion Springs Lavender Farm

73 East Carmel Valley Road, Carmel Valley, California 93924, United States

CarmelCaramels.com Lionspringslavender@gmail.com

Carmel Caramels

Gourmet Caramels from Lion Springs Lavender Farm

Lion Springs Lavender Farm

Our Mission

About Carmel Caramels

Our Caramels

Our Story

About Organic

Giving Back

Nature's Bounty: Carmel Caramels' Sustainable Farming Practices encourage and support healthy wildlife. Explore the vibrant life on the farm:

Enjoy a Sweet journey on the farm with Carmel Caramels' photo gallery of organic agriculture in action

Nature's Bounty: Bees and Honey keep our environment, and humans, healthy and happy.

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Carmel Caramels from Lion Springs Lavender Farm

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Gourmet Caramels from Lion Springs Lavender Farm

Lion Springs Lavender Farm

Our Mission

About Carmel Caramels

Our Caramels

Our Story

About Organic

Giving Back

Nature's Bounty: Carmel Caramels' Sustainable Farming Practices encourage and support healthy wildlife. Explore the vibrant life on the farm:

Enjoy a Sweet journey on the farm with Carmel Caramels' photo gallery of organic agriculture in action

Nature's Bounty: Bees and Honey keep our environment, and humans, healthy and happy.

Contact Us

Ask questions or just say hello!

Carmel Caramels from Lion Springs Lavender Farm

Drop Us a Line

Subscribe

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