The 4 seasons of lavender
During the winter we prepare the land.
At the end of winter we carry out the planting. It will take 1 year before you can make the bouquets, 2 years for harvesting the flowers for the essential oils.
This is also the time for cuttings. It's what ? We take wood from old lavender plants to root new ones which will be planted the following year.
At the start of spring we begin to clean our fields by pulling out weeds.
We perform this task between 3 and 4 times.
Before the start of summer, we have hives put in by beekeepers. The bees will therefore all summer forage in our beautiful fields of purple lavender to extract the lavender honey that we all know at the end of the season.
Summer is setting in...we are starting the biggest job: the harvest.
Bouquets: Our bouquets of lavender and lavandin are cut with a sickle, and we then dry them upside down on drying racks with spikes. Once the flower is dry, we put the bouquets in palox. They will be reworked at the end of the harvest (re-calibrated and reshaped).
Dried flower: the stems are cut mechanically with a suitable machine. We then spread them out and turn them in meadows or on tarpaulins. Once dried, we beat them with a combine harvester to keep only the flower.
Essential oil: We first cut the lavender or lavandin using an appropriate machine, as for harvesting flowers, but the harvest will be put directly into a box which we send to the distillery to extract it. essence, base of our Essential Oil.
At the end of summer, a combine harvester allows us to harvest our little spelt.
We take advantage of the return to calm at the beginning of autumn to pass the dried flowers through a specific sorter in order to eliminate all remaining waste and to make the flower as beautiful as possible.
