Local company comes out smelling like ... lavender

Working with lavender is some of the most pleasant smelling work a person can do.

Mary Jo Monteith, who lives on 38 acres out along SR-174 in the general area of Spring Canyon, grows about 1,400 lavender plants on her property that looks like a big patch of purple from the highway.

She's grown lavender there for a dozen years or so, originally to just help suppress the weeds, and has made soap and...