It's harvest time, for grapes, olives, and lavender (for us because we leave them very, very late for our guests to enjoy), it's a time when we play around plants and enjoy their scent to the very end... Lavender crop 2020 We also dry out all sorts of aromatic and...
It's always a delicious time when we cut out the flowers and let them dry before packing them up in little linen pouches. Over the years we have started getting more efficient at doing this, although we only have a small field, it does yield quite a lot of flowers! We...
This year, the crop has been quite late as we where very busy with guests... so by the time we trim the flowers, they are already quite dry and the aromas are quite overpowering! The field after trimming: Starting to fill some of the lavender pouches, all hand dyed...
It might come as a surprise, but lavenders are not grown only to be featured on instagram... They are actually used to produce essential oil. Here is the process at Aroma'Plantes, a distillery in Sault, filled with the intoxicating aroma of Provence's darling. The...
This cistercian Abbey, with beautiful Lavandin field coming up to it's quasi millenarian walls, is an instagram hit. You will probably recognise this views if you have any kind of interest in Provence! The thoughtful monks have created a small field outside of the...
Since this is the time of year when one should really talk about lavenders, I thought I would take you to some place off the beaten tracks. The Baronnies are the first hills that we encounter when leaving Vaison-la-Romaine towards the Alps, it is Provence's best kept...
Processing the lavender field's production, but also the kitchen garden's aromatic / medicinal herb production Before: After:
Like many people, I have been brainstorming about how to make the future better (or just less worse maybe ?) for our children. An intelligent use of the property we are lucky enough to have seemed to be one of the obvious way forward. Instinctively, the manicured...
Sault is one of the 3 villages from which the cyclists start climbing the Mont Ventoux. Around Sault is where you will see the extravagantly purple lavender fields. It's also worth stopping at one of the distilleries to see how the essential oil is produced, take the...
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