Growing the Best Lavender Essential Oil: What Does It Take?
EDITOR’S NOTE: Since Gary Young’s passing, we have been taking stock of the tremendous contributions…
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May 2011
When Will French Lavender Return?
While visiting with Benoit Cassan, the former president of CRIEPPAM (the technical research center for…
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The Loss of French Lavender Farms
As we drove over the plateau on the mountain top, field after field was in…
Read More »April 2011
Drought Decimates French Lavender Fields
My most recent visit to Provence, France, in November of 2010 was shocking and very…
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Cloned Lavender
True lavender (lavande vraie) is a variety named Lavandula angustifolia, and it is all about…
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French Lavender: Encroaching Synthetics
Years ago, sons had a tendency to follow in their fathers’ footsteps, which was certainly…
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Are You Buying Lavender or Lavandin?
Why then are the farmers switching to lavandin hybrid grosso or super? First of all,…
Read More »March 2011
Growing Lavender: What Are the Costs?
Now let’s look at the numbers today. Land starts at $5,000 per acre. A 2705…
Read More »February 2011
Part 19: Finding Pure Essential Oils
9. Will the soil composition and location affect the plant that is grown there, thereby…
Read More »January 2011
Part 15: Finding Pure Essential Oils
7. Can different distillation practices change the oil quality? Yes! Commercial distilleries push process pressure…
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