Category: Essential Oils
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German Chamomile 2020 Harvest
It’s been a daunting growing season this year. An incredibly wet winter and an exceptionally dry spring, it’s always unnerving when you first begin distilling, to see how the crop has faired up. We were pleasantly surprised to see the crop looking fab, and the oil yield had not been hampered at all. But what…
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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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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…
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English Hemp Essential Oil
Following two years of successful trials under UK Government licence we are now able to offer our own grown and distilled Hemp essential oil. This has been harvested and steam distilled from the flowering parts of the cannabis sativa plant, it has been tested for any THC content at a Government approved laboratory and we…
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New English Distilled Oils
We are proud to announce that we are able to offer in addition to our Frankincense and Myrrh oils as English distilled we now have available Asafoetida, Opoponax, Elemi and Galbanum oils. These have all been distilled here in our on farm distillery using imported gums/resins. Wholesale volumes of all of these oils are now…
