OK. Welcome back to little Mount
Lavender stuff we say off camera.
I love catching up with Jason Walker,
Woodleaf. And I think that one of
the owners here because whenever you
do come to little mount lavender,
you do feel like you're visiting
with family, right.
And that's what it's been like over the year,
just getting to know you too, guys.
So we're stepping into the Pantry area.
Yeah. And the pantry area has a
lot of this stuff that I use in
the food here and the patisserie.
So it's got our balsamics,
our olive oils, our truffle oil,
our herbs, our salts,
our Peppers and also.
A lot of artists and things in here
are also we have a young feller now
who's making charcuterie boards
for us that you can grab one,
grab one of these
boards are so hot right now, Jason.
Local wood vendor.
And the great thing about it is
these are scrap pieces that he turns
into really cool charcuterie boards.
So you can order a charcuterie
and buy a new board with it.
We have our Arthur Court,
which is all of this plateware
and what have you this right here,
the largest collections in
the state of Kentucky of that.
So a lot of people who actually
purchased Arthur Court are like,
wow, we got the good stuff as
long as our teas we have back.
There are 18 different kinds of teas.
They're all custom blended and ready for us.
We have our honeys, our simple syrup,
our sugar, our nuts and walnuts, our bakery.
It's all in here.
What I like to is that you all do.
You highlight folks that maybe
otherwise wouldn't have an opportunity.
Like you talk about the charcuterie
boards and they wouldn't have an
opportunity to to like, sell their stuff.
To have it here is really special.
Exactly. And we use a lot of local Potters,
so they make their own.
Specialty items except for they
now know to do it all in purple or
lavender or have lavender pattern on.
I remembered the memo today was really well.
So we have our Potters,
we have our jewelry makers,
our woodworkers, our leather workers,
our rock and stone which you
saw in the other room which is
all of our crystals and rocks.
She does an excellent job of
pulling in some of the best looking
crystals and rocks in the area.
We get more compliments
from those rocks because.
He really does specifically hone in
on some of the best stuff there.
Wonderful DT and I feel like
when you do shop here, not only
you're supporting local but you're
getting incredibly unique products.
Ohh yeah, I mean this isn't stuff you get
at a box store and we're proud of that.
You know, we want you to have that
old school shopping feel where
you do a little bit of shopping,
you do a little bit of nibbling. Yes,
we have an organic bakery and patisserie.
You get to do a little bit of
everything when you come in here.
So it's not. A 10 minute in and out,
our average customers in here around
an hour and a half to two hours plus
we tease them and talk to them and
our staff is extremely friendly.
We're a shoppers paradise really.
We'll shop with you and not just
stand behind a register and you
got it. No. Yeah,
we are truly a shoppers place to
be and they know us and they know
our associates and they know the
dog Hank, which I don't know.
Well, Hank was trying to steal the spotlight.
Like earlier today.
But you know, Jason, when I'd love to.
Is it so true, whenever I'm in the bakery
and we're talking about different products,
you will take the time to explain,
ohh, it's made with this and this.
And then you can go over into the
Pantry area here and purchase that,
right. And that's what we try to do that
if you want healthy, clean product,
I can help you get to that
point and you can duplicate
it. They asked me for recipes.
Yeah, big deal. I'm a chef.
I'll give you the recipe,
make it yourself.
All your everything that you make though,
it doesn't have like a ton of product because
it's. All natural is like a
handful of things. Yeah, it's
four or five ingredients.
You're done. You're ready to go.
Yeah. You're finished.
And you have a really good
French stylization on your food,
which is a little different because
everybody's a little high Italian.
I'm Italian by nature and by breed,
but I'm French in the style
of what we do here. So
we've loved coming out here all year long.
And I know that, you know,
your lavender field looks gorgeous.
Hey, and we can't wait to come back
in the spring when we know that's
going to be spring, summer, full
bloom. Oh, yeah, because you're
already slated to Little Miss Lavender.
I know. I'm gonna judge first
cuts and all of that. So.
We're already planning that.
All right, more
shopping to come right here
at little Mount Lavender.
Of course, Jason's talking about all the
wonderful products here in the pantry.
Coming up next, we're going to go
over into the bakery and over into
the cafe to sample some of these great
products that you can try right here,
a little mount lavender in Simpsonville.