What a weekend. Our 2026 Halloween Fall Festival is in the books, and we're still smiling about it: 384 neighbors and visitors came out to the farm over two sunny October days — 174 on Saturday, October 24, and 210 on Sunday, October 25. The weather cooperated start to finish, sunny with temperatures in the high 50s to low 60s, and the farm was full of costumes, kids, and camel fans from 10 to 5 both days. Thank you to everyone who came — this page stays up as our look back at the weekend, and as a preview of what the festival is all about every fall.
The animals, as always, stole the show
Three of Rhode Island's four privately held camels live right here, and festival weekend is their moment. Jack and Bingham, our dromedaries, are the only Arabian camels in Rhode Island, and Humphrey, our Bactrian, is hard to miss. The rest of the crew got their share of attention too — 5 alpacas, 2 llamas, our 2 livestock guardian dogs, the barn cat, and the flock all had a steady stream of admirers. If you came just to meet the camels, you weren't alone. (You can get to know them all year on our Meet the Animals page.)
Wagon rides, crafts, and costumes
The lavender wagon rolled all weekend — our golf cart pulling the wagon on tours around the field — and the children's craft table stayed busy with Halloween crafts to take home. The farm gets dressed up for spooky season, and plenty of our visitors did too: costumes were everywhere, on kids and grown-ups alike, and the gazebo saw more than a few costume photo sessions. The gazebo doubled as our haunted house for the weekend, too — cornstalks, hay bales, drifting fog, and a few residents best not met after dark.
The field, the gazebo, and the shop
Between the animals and the activities, folks wandered the lavender field, gathered around the gazebo, and stopped into the farm shop for what we grow and make right here: lavender bundles, loose buds, essential oils, and our line of hydrosol products distilled on the farm. Our candles are a crowd favorite too — they come from Coventry Candle, and almost everything else in the shop is grown and made on-site.
A few scenes from around the farm
Scenes from the weekend — costumes, pumpkins, coffee, camels, a haunted gazebo, and one very good sunset.
Every fall at Lavender Waves Farm
Each October, we open the farm for the Halloween Fall Festival — a weekend of animals, wagon rides, kids' crafts, costumes, and crisp fall air out in the field. It's one of the few times all year the farm opens its gates to everyone, and it's become one of our favorite traditions: neighbors meeting the camels for the first time, kids in costume at the craft table, and the shop smelling of lavender heading into the holidays.
In 2026, admission was $8 per person, with infants under 2 free. Each year's dates and details get announced here on the website as fall approaches — when next fall's festival is set, you'll find the dates on our Events page and here on the blog. Until then, enjoy the look back, and if you were here this year, thanks again for making it such a good one.