Category: Company
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Distilling Lemons
During the beautiful spring day, we fired up the distillery to replenish our Lemon hydrosol stock. With the delightful smell wafting through the distillery, the sun shining everyone had a smile on their face. We also had the added delight of producing some steam distilled lemon oil, producing just over 3 litres.
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’17 Harvest Has Begun!
Harvest this year has been the earliest yet! We have started processing approximately 10 days earlier than previous years. German Chamomile (Matrucaria recutica) is under way. Yield this year is normal, quality is excellent. Due to the dry spring, some of the crops were not able to establish, and therefore it is possible overall yield…
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German Chamomile Seeding
German Chamomile seeding for this year has been completed and has been successful. The plants are growing and looking well. To seed the German Chamomile we sprinkle the seeds on the bare soil, just before a little bit of moisture is due to arrive, for an effective germination.
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Exciting Year to Come
It’s an exciting year to come at Norfolk Essential Oils. We have begun extending our facilities. First stop is the extension to the office, adding 2 offices and a meeting room. Increasing the size of production facilities. Not do we have this going on, we have started the ball rolling with increasing our distillation capacity…
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Keeping it in the Family
Ken and Debra’s daughter Kim has recently come back to work alongside her parents. Having been away at university and then working in Cambridge. Previously Kim has run the distillery throughout the summer holidays, will now be undertaking a more technical role, but also looking at social media and marketing.
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2013 News
Welcome to 2013 and good bye to one of the wettest autumns ever experienced. Early 2012 started off with a drought but after July things went steadily downhill and of course all the essential oils crops were affected as well as the food crops we produce. as a consequence of the wet weather weed control…
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Summer 2010
This summer has possibly been the hottest and driest we have experienced since we started producing essential oils over 12 years ago now. Although newly planted crops have struggled for moisture the established crops have produced less growth but oil yields are certainly higher on the those distilled so far. German chamomile and English/Roman chamomile yields…
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Organic Lavender Floral Water
We now have available our own distilled Organic Lavender Water. We attained soil association certification for our distillery during the summer of 2008 and have distilled this from a contract customer who is growing organic lavender. Available in the online shop from £2.90 for 100ml. Also in 250ml and 1000ml sizes.
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2009 Outlook
2009 has started with some very cold weather which has delayed the spreading of the distilled herb waste back onto the fields, this action not only replaces organic matter back into the soil but also has some nutrient value which with the high costs of fertilser at the moment is a welcome alternative. Chamomile plants…
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2008 Harvest
2008 harvest began in early June with the German chamomile, the melissa, peppermint, English chamomile and lavenders have followed on. August started with some wet and stormy weather and this slowed harvesting slightly. Herb distillation continued on and off well into October this season which is much later than normal and we had to fit…
