Our lavender farm Casa Lavanda is situated in the heart of Wine Country Hawke’s Bay New Zealand - just 25 km west of Hastings in the district of Mangatahi.  The fertile flats, once famous for its production of New Zealand lamb and beef, are now renowned for their production of top quality New Zealand wine.  We arrived here in 1993 knowing this was a dry district, but nothing prepared us for the ensuing drought of the first few years so the idea to grow lavender was literally born of drought. We soon learnt that Mangatahi enjoys a Mediterranean climate with low rainfall, hot dry summers and is a hot spot of sunny Hawke’s Bay. 

We have enjoyed ten years sharing Casa Lavanda with friends and tourists and what an exciting, wonderful time it has been. We have been privileged to meet people from all over the world who we would never have met had it not been for tourism. It has been an honour to share our small part of beautiful Hawkes’ Bay with you.  We value your ongoing loyalty to Casa lavanda and our products and we thank you for believing in us and our business.  Many of you are passionate about our product and unashamedly biased towards it, so our decision to opt out of tourism and devote our energies to research, development and distribution of the casa lavanda product has been wholeheartedly supported by you.  We do appreciate that...thank you!