An introductory video about Bees N Blooms and the owners, setting the stage for the step-by-step Lavender Processing Journey.

In this video, we walk through the process of how we harvest our lavender and compare our method to that of large-scale, commercial agriculture. We enlist helpful people from the community to help us harvest all the lavender by hand, taking Lavender harvest usually takes about three days to complete. After cutting, we bundle the lavender and hang it to dry for a few weeks before debudding.

In this video, we progress through to the second step in our lavender processing series where we take the dried lavender bundles and feed them through a Besel lavender debudding machine. This crucial step in the process allows us to efficiently separate the lavender buds from the stems. The buds make their way through a series of three screens that take out the dust and other plant matter, leaving behind pure lavender buds!

Join us in the third stage of our lavender process where we walk you through our lavender distillation method. Here, we utilize a boiler to create steam that passes through lavender buds to extract the lavender fragrance compounds. The condensate is a two-layer liquid composed of the essential oil (floating on top) and the hydrosol (the bottom layer) . We then take the distillatiion product into the lab for further processing.

In this video we demonstrate how our lavender oil and hydrosol are processed after distillation. Each of the distillate containers are poured into a separatory funnel where the hydrosol is drained out, leaving behind the essential oil. Each of the two liquids are then poured into their own vessels where they await the final step in the process: bottling and labeling for market.