Distilling Lavender in Oregon

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Re: Distilling Lavender in Oregon

I am in essential oil business longer than 20 years, invested in

distilling Helicrysum italicum in Croatia, special story, but this is

the first year I distilled Lavender on my own in a copper A limbic

distillations , copper I bought last year in Portugal ( Also this

information I got here ) and all this happened because I am member of

this group already longer than a year so I really learned a lot here,

gained a lot of energy which give me final push to actually go and

distill. Last year when I started to distill for the first time I

realized that welding job was done less than adequate so I have to sent

the still back to whole seller to mend it

It was really specially, friend of mine Alena is living close to the

beach here in Slovenia so she invited me to distill her lavender, I will

have to check moor to tell

exactly which botanical variety this is. So the first day there was

seven people helping preparing Lavender herb. When I arrived on

location, flowers with rather long stem cca 0,5 m or longer or shorter

were cut into smaller peaces cca 3 cm each give or take. Interesting is

that the first day there was very small amount of essential oil produced

floating on the top of glass year where I was collecting Hidrosol . The

second day and the third day I produced cca 40 ml of oil each day in a

60 liter distilling unit. Both these two days I was collecting flowers

by myself together with friend and Alenka with much more Lavender

flowers included than the first batch and colour of the oil was very

dark yellow the second day ( Amber like ). There is so many technical

questions, how long to distill, how to prepare plant , material, son

said that cutting them the way we did , did gain no extra essential

oil.......................I will go on with story next time.

Dear mother ring where I can get your e mail contact

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Re: Distilling Lavender in Oregon

>It was really specially, friend of mine Alena is living close to the

>beach here in Slovenia so she invited me to distill her lavender, I will

>have to check moor to tell exactly which botanical variety this is.

Dear Jana,

Greetings from another perfume-enamored Slovenian, living on the central coast

of California!

Dara

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Huge hug to you Dara, are you living there in California long time,

permanently or ............I believe we are going to met at some point,

maby on one of these distilling

workshops I am preparing myself to attend and " for sure, for sure " I

am going to make me come on some. This summer I focused to do distilling

on my own and there is a lot of women and man interested on this art

when I am presenting still on various fairs across the country. So is

interested to see how people have to be remembered how to distill even

though this was done here in Slovenia before wars a lot. For example

close to place where we live in Idrija , is town with name Logatec (

long ) used to be huge distilling unit for distilling Spruce cones,

famillie who was distilling after the second WW moved to Austria because

they were not exactly sure how new government is going to treat private

sector.

Instead of producing Hidrolat and essetial oil people here, especially

farmers are more into producing alcohol beverage so that have to be told

that with similar

equipment you can produce also Essential oils and Hidrolats and than

this is totally new story for them as that I am telling story about life

in Venus or better jet on Jupiter because this planet is far enough to

bring so much astonishment on their faces. I am telling you is really

interesting doing all this different king of activities but

brings hapyines into my heart because I see that it started to move, so

I am enthusiastic for the second time, first happened down in Croatia 15

years back when I started to motivate people to start gathering

Helicrysum and thay did and as I read already before on this list the

biggest quantities of Helicrysum was collected by

women down in Croatia and I met at that point with special women energy.

Once I wanted to harvest Helicrysum together with them so that I will

see how much

involvement does it take, and you know what...........ladies it their 80

es were able to carry up to100 kg on their back, this mens that load was

heavier than them. And I learned again about the women endurance. I love

this plant, my car is soaked in the smell of Helicrysum oil and plant

which I collected in Pula , Istria, Croatia this year, my car rear

friends is less that perfect but everybody say it smalls very nice.

You all be in joy, it seems that moon is rising and me with it.

Jana Eitner

eMail: treunfragrance@...

website: http://www.tretjeoko.si

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>

> Instead of producing Hidrolat and essetial oil people here, especially

> farmers are more into producing alcohol beverage so that have to be told

> that with similar

> equipment you can produce also Essential oils and Hidrolats and than

> this is totally new story for them as that I am telling story about life

> in Venus or better jet on Jupiter because this planet is far enough to

> bring so much astonishment on their faces. I am telling you is really

> interesting doing all this different king of activities but

> brings hapyines into my heart because I see that it started to move, so

> I am enthusiastic for the second time, first happened down in Croatia 15

> years back when I started to motivate people to start gathering

> Helicrysum and thay did and as I read already before on this list the

> biggest quantities of Helicrysum was collected by

> women down in Croatia and I met at that point with special women energy.

> Once I wanted to harvest Helicrysum together with them so that I will

> see how much

> involvement does it take, and you know what...........ladies it their 80

> es were able to carry up to100 kg on their back, this mens that load was

> heavier than them. And I learned again about the women endurance. I love

> this plant, my car is soaked in the smell of Helicrysum oil and plant

> which I collected in Pula , Istria, Croatia this year, my car rear

> friends is less that perfect but everybody say it smalls very nice.

>

> You all be in joy, it seems that moon is rising and me with it.

>

> Jana Eitner

> eMail: treunfragrance@...

> website: http://www.tretjeoko.si

Dear Jana,

Reading this post was such a joy. I have leaned on the therapeutic power of

croatian helichrysum oil through many a difficult time in my life over the last

few years...it always helps me so much...mind body and spirit. I have used the

oil specifically to help me endure hard times, and so to read of the elder women

harvesting really moved me. How lovely to hear about the harvesting of the

plants and the remembering of the art of distillation - the discovery is still

so exciting and new to me - I can feel the same excitement you feel.

Thank you for your good work...all around the world croatian helichrysum oil

heals..anyone I love has a bottle of it somewhere!

Kindly,

Jess Ring

Green Ring Botanicals

email:mother_ring@...

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Sandy, I want to thank you for the amazing lavender buds, they are

wonderful!

Katlyn Breene

Mermade Magickal Arts (since 1984)

katmermade@...

http://www.mermadearts.com/