Orchard View Lavender Farm — Attraction in Mansfield Township

I stopped at this farm with my daughter and her friend to check out the lavender and take a few photos. Before coming I read the FAQ and photographer page. The page very clearly says the following:

1. If you are taking photos for personal use it is fine. They pretend to be welcoming of this, in fact, and ask that you tag them on social media if you post photos from their site. Professional photographers and influencers have to pay a $175 fee for two hours and show insurance.
2. They ask you to buy something in their store to help support them
3. There is an entrance fee of $5/person during bloom season

I am definitely not a professional photographer and our photos would be for personal use. When we arrived we immediately went to the store and bought some products. I offered to pay the entrance fee, but was told I didn’t need to because the lavender was not in bloom. Indeed there was no lavender in bloom, and there were also no other visitors present.

The girls spent about 20 minutes eating ice cream and I fiddled around with my camera settings to try to get things right. We then took some photos, which took maybe 20 minutes.

Right before we were about to leave, a very rude woman marched up to us and told me, “We have a very strict photography policy.” I told her that I had read the policy, and that as long as I am not a professional photographer or influencer and that the photos were for my own use, it was fine. She told me that because I had a real camera and not just an iPhone, she considers it a professional photoshoot. I’m pretty sure that the word professional implies that the photos would be for profit, or that this is my profession, and neither of those things is true, so no…it was not a professional shoot.

I would also like to restate that there were no other visitors present while we were there, so we were disrupting nothing. In fact, if they had accepted the $5/pp entrance fee I was willing to pay, they would have made almost $30 total for the entrance fee plus ice cream while having to do absolutely nothing. We would have left in good spirits, tagged them on social media, all would have been well.

Needless to say, we will not be returning and we will not be recommending this place to anyone. Aside from how unnecessarily rude this woman was, if she doesn’t want anyone taking photos, they need to make this clear on their website, as we were well within the stated policies on...

May 4th, 2025 will always be a special day for my husband and I, as we chose OVLF as our venue for our wedding. I do not have enough words to convey how beautiful the grounds are nor how grateful I am that came across this venue on a whim while scrolling through local areas near our home. My guests could not, and still have not stopped talking about how amazed there was a place like this minutes from our home.

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