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Processing and Distillation

By Dr. Curtis Beus, WSU Extension, Clallam County


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Visitors to Angel

Farm at 2008

Sequim Lavender

Festival making

craft products from

fresh lavender


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Making a

lavender wreath


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A completed

lavender wreath at

Victor’s Lavender


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Visitors to New Mexico Lavender

Festival making lavender wands


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Nicely dried Grosso bundles

You can sell these, or process them further


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Without a machinelike this stripping

the lavender buds

from dried bundlesis a very labor

instensive activity!

De-budding Dried Lavender


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What is This Machine?

It is a seed cleaner thathas been converted into


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But, you can do an adequate jobof cleaning lavender buds with

“lower tech” methods as well


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How about itscolor?

Is this lavender bud very clean?


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How about itscolor?

Is this lavender bud very clean?


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Is this culinary

lavender veryclean?

How about

its color?


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• Cleanliness

•

• Scent

• Freshness


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Flower Yields -- Grosso• Around 125

stems perbundle

• 4-7 bundles

per matureplant• 12-15 bundles

yield 1 pound

• Retail --$6-$10 perdried bundle

• Wholesale --$3-$4 per

r e u s• 1/4 to 1/2 lb.

Dried buds perplant

• 8,000 to 16,000bundles peracre

• 1,000 to 1,500lb. dried buds

per acre

• Retail --$18-$30/lb.Dried buds

• Wholesale --

$10-$15/lb.Dried buds


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Essential Oil Production• Angustifolias yield 3-15 qt./acre (5-

25 lb./acre)

• Lavandins yield 20-100 qt./acre (35-170 lb./acre)

• World prices for lavandin oil range

from $6-12 lb., and for angustifoliaoil $20-$30 lb.

• $300-$2,000 gross per acrelavandins

• -

angustifolias• Angustifolia oil “sweeter” than

lavandin oil (less camphor)

• Unlikely that small U.S. producerscan compete in oil markets

• Oil production for small growersneeds to be high quality, nichemarkets, value-added products

• Oil is sold retail for $6.00 - $15.00for 10 ml, $9.00 - $18.00 oz., $25 -$40 for 4 oz., $80 - $150 for 16 oz.(angustifolia oil prices being toward the

higher end of these ranges)


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Yields for Lavender at Robin Hill FarmPlants in Landscape Fabric

30.9

20

25

30353.2

2.22

3.1

2.32.5

33.5

6.4

9.1

6

8

10

10.9

5.56.75.1 4 5.38.6 7.86.5

0

5

10

15

ml/plant

Folgate Martha Roderick

Wyckoff Royal Velvet

Royal Purple Maillette

Super Grosso

Provence Old English

. 1.7

1.11.3 1.6

0

0.5

1

1.5

lb. material/plant




Super Grosso


3.43.13.9

2.3 2

4.7 3.44.1

0

2

4

ml/lb. plant material




Super Grosso



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Cultivar Oil – Liter/acreMunstead (Clyde) 3.8

Munstead (Omarana) 13.0

Cultivar Oil – Liter/acre

No fabric In fabric

Folgate 21.2 31.6

Martha Roderick 13.6 16.0

New Zealand – 2670 plants/acre (Munstead 5340), 5th Season Sequim, RHF, 2900 plants/acre, 5th season

Oil Yields for New Zealand

and Sequim Lavender

Munstead (5/14) 2.2

Tarras 13.5

Twickel Purple 7.1

Grosso 97.5

Super 65.4

Bogong 98.5

Old English 25.9

Impress Purple 76.2

Wyckoff 16.2 19.4Royal Velvet 13.6 14.8

Royal Purple 9.0 11.6

Maillette 15.7 15.4

Super 27.3 24.9

Grosso 76.6 89.6

Provence 21.2 22.6

Old English 21.2 18.9


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Distilling Essential Oils


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Copper table top still I used

for doing my lavender oil

trials – obtained from the

Essential Oil Company,

Portland, OR


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Annie Harmon at 2006

Lavender Conference withher small Alembic Still


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Mike Greenhaugh of Martha’s Lane

Lavender in Sequim with his Alembic Still


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A Reimerspowered still in

New Mexico


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A small portable still made by

Newhouse Manufacturing atOlympic Lavender in Sequim


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Randy Nichols of Jardin du Soliel

Lavender in Sequim explaining his still


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Mike Shirkey of Port Williams Lavender

in Sequim explaining his still at 2008

Lavender Festival


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A representative of Newhouse

Manufacturing explaining one of his

larger stills at Lavender Festival


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