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Not long ago, Pamela Andersen came across an eight-year-old personal journal and discovered a long-forgotten entry. Sometime in 2002, then immersed in the fast lane of the corporate world, a leadership coach and trainer married to a senior business consultant, she had written: “I would like us to open a lavender farm.”

In a serendipitous turn of events, that’s exactly what Pamela and her husband, Jesper, both in their mid-50s, have done, launching Lavender Sense a year ago in the southwestern Ontario hamlet of Wallacetown, just north of Lake Erie in Elgin County.

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