Our Lavender

Welcome to Cornwall’s first lavender farm. Come and visit our lavender fields which are planted across six acres of well-drained Lizard soil, where the scents from the flowers mingle with the fresh sea air. 

Lavender’s many amazing properties have been known for centuries; and its name comes from the Latin laver, meaning “to wash” (the Romans were partial to a nice lavender bath). Used in perfumes for its gorgeous scent, and in essential oils for its relaxing qualities, it’s also a surprisingly good culinary herb.

We chose to grow lavender because of its many wonderful uses, and because we could process the plants on site. Harvested in the mornings, the lavender is brought back to the barn for steam distillation. If we were being truly traditional, this would happen over roaring fires; however we prefer to use a custom-made still which guarantees that the product is pure and a lot safer to extract. We use the distilled oil to make oils and scrubs – but first we leave the oil to mature for a while, as it ages like a good wine!

Also like vineyard production, different varieties have significantly different characteristics, with individual properties. They are also ready to harvest at different times. Because of this, we currently grow seven different types of lavender.