organic agriculture
Producer of AOP ORGANIC lavender in Provence
Our AOP fine lavender crops (Lavandula Angustifolia) are grown on 12 carefully-tended hectares.
Today, machines are used for the harvest.
The cutting tools treat the plants with care
The bouquets are hung head down for a few weeks, to ensure the best drying conditions.
Careful trimming before the bouquets and wreaths are shaped
Careful manual shaping to create perfect bouquet and wreath compositions
Pre-wilting is an obligatory step in the AOP essential oil process
AOP fine lavender essential oil is obtained by natural steam distillation
Step separating the essential oil from the hydrolate
Production
On our family farm located in the heart of the Sault plateau at an altitude of 800 m, we exclusively produce AOP lavender “angustifolia”, also called fine or true lavender.
Today converting to fully organic agriculture, our crops will have the ORGANIC (in French, BIO) label from 2019 on.
Already, we implement traditional agricultural methods which respect the AOP (Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée) specifications, the only label guaranteeing the lavender genuinely comes from Provence.
We carry out all the operations to prepare the lavender for you, the customer. Cutting, pre-wilting, drying, leaf stripping, manual shaping of the bouquets and wreaths, and flower trimming are all skillfully performed in our workshop.
The essential oil is distilled by a local producers’ cooperative distillery.
The lavender straw remaining after the distillation process is composted then spread over the fields.
