Lavender Harvest & Oil Distillation | Valensole - Provence - France 🇫🇷| large and small scale
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2019
- The Plateau de Valensole is one of the most famous nature reserves of France and is located in the department Alpes-de-Haute-Provence the area is famous about it's lavender fields.
Early in July, during my holiday, I spotted various harvest operations and got invited by some friendly farmers to film the distillation proces also. (This video is part 1 of 3)
Merci aux agriculteurs de Plateau de Valensole!
Sort explanation about the Lavender harvesting and distillation proces:
The harvest is carried out when the lavender is in full bloom or just after usually at the end of June and throughout july and depending on the weather.
The Lavender flowers and stems are cut and brought to the distillery in purpose built trailers. In the distillery a lid is lowered onto the trailer and the trailer sealed. Water is heated and made into steam is fed into the trailer through pipes in the floor.
The lavender stems, although containing little oil, create a porous structure within the trailer to allow the steam to circulate. This heats the whole trailer load of around five tonnes of material up to 100 degreesC.
At this temperature the steam causes the oil glands to erupt, and the oil evaporates into the steam. This steam with the oil now entrained within it, rises through the trailer and is collected in the funnel shaped lid.
The mix of oil and steam is then piped to a condenser. Inside the condenser is a series of steel tubes set out in a honeycomb pattern. The steam / oil mixture passes down through the tubes. Cold rainwater is pumped between the tubes, which condenses the steam back to oil and water.
The oil and water mixture is piped into the separator tank. Here the two liquids are allowed to settle out, and the oil forms a layer on the top of the water.
The precious lavender oil is then collected from the separator.
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I can only imagine how pleasant is the smell around in the harvesting and processing season
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Just the way I like it.
No stupid introduction.
No blabbering host yet informative with the necessary caption.
Someone made their Lavender Dream come true.💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
Thanks for Sharing 💜💜💜
I'm 45 years old and have had terrible anxiety since I was 13, even hospitalized with it. Lavender calms me so much that I could just sleep in that field!
One of my favorite parts of France with Great towns / villages and lovely people.
Well that's one tractor you don't have to hang a air freshener in.
Absolutely agree! Wonderful place! 😊🇫🇷
Thank you for having the info bits in english, it's nice to know what's going on
never knew how much effort and cool machinery went into lavender oil. AWESOME! thank you for the video.
so refreshing to look at the lavender field❤️
Un travail de qualité et de longue haleine. Bravo à tous. Et Merci du partage.
This is incredible. I honestly had no idea how lavender was harvested before seeing this. Thank you. That's what I love about your videos, not only are they absolute top in terms of production value, but there's always something new to learn every time.
You and me both. Cheers to this channel.
Yes, we should thank them for information and science.
All essential oil extraction uses fairly the same distillation process.It is an ancient art.
होली की हार्दिक बधाई एवं शुभकामनाएँ.
In this southern part of France you can visit 2 major perfumes labs/showrooms. For about 35 euro, you can mix your own perfumes with simple guides. It's about 2 hours north of Nice, called Grasse (French spelling)
Oh!! MY GOSH !! It seems that you can smell the perfume just by beeing the flowers
I have a sudden interest in tractors. Glad this channel exists.
I just watched tractors mow lavander for 10 minutes and enjoyed it, lol. Thanks for having the text in English.
TractorSpotter has really raised the bar on this video. These Lavender farms are huge, and quite rightly deserved a multi part video.
Impressive coverage indeed! 👍
It never ceases to amaze me the amount of science and technology behind random everyday products....
The modern machineries are fascinating 🙃
Very interesting. Fascinating how cleanly the harvester works in the field.
I just made a video at a lavender farm too! I can smell it through the screen. I'm obsessed with lavender! The harvesting machine is so satisfying. Thank you!
Same it soothes my anxiety.
The lavender field is so beautiful. The machine is superior. The video is very good, and there are all kinds of plants. These machines are for the lavender field. This is a place full of life and beauty. Here you can experience the incomparable beauty of life. This place is full of a breath of innocence, romance and warmth.
Such a strangely satisfying thing to watch! AMAZING
I wonder if the smell saturates the whole town ....and do the people smell like lavender.
I was about to comment.. " you know they go home smelling so good!! Lol
exactely what I thought ...
if yes then I'm packing my bags now lol
I’ve been there last year and I can confirm you that the whole town smells like lavender. Difficult to describe but that smell is all around. I was driving with AC turned on and that smell got into my car!
Alberto Boratto luckely lavender smells good
I can only imagine how incredible it must smell! Great video!
*Outstanding video! I had no idea about the lavender harvesting and processing process. Thanks to you for sharing, and thanks to Mother Nature for her abundant blessings.*
This is my life in one video thanks to lavender I am bettering my anxiety I love this plant!☺️
Excellent video. I had no clue how lavender was harvested and processed. Thank you to you for that and thank you to Mother Nature for so much generosity.
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Loving this Lavender series! Thank you so much for all of your hard work! Great vids!
so beautiful
You are very beautiful woman with a beautiful smile, I wish you all the best this year, how is the weather over there now
You're welcome! Enjoying them too! 👍😊
Ahh, fresh lavender. Smells wonderful. 100% pure organic lavender.
This is so beautiful,I could actually smell the lavender scent🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
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Excellent video!! Really nice to see all the different machinery & various sizes harvesting the same crop! I look forward to part 2👍
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this is amazing, thank you for your work guys !
Πολύ ωραίο βίντεο!
Ευχαριστώ! Αγαπώ την λεβάντα!
Από Ελλάδα!!🇬🇷
Best part about the video is that it's not a clickbait.
Just found this and watching it was compelling and mesmerising!! I'd love to see a video of how they plant the fields up in the first place, too!
Me too !!!
Me too 😍😍😍
It is so beautiful, I can almost smell the fragrance.
I love lavender,. The US Food and Drug Administration considers lavender as generally recognized as safe (GRAS) for human consumption.[21] The essential oil was used in hospitals during World War I. Thank you for this great video.!
😍 Debe salir un aroma delicioso de esos campos... La lavanda tiene un aroma fascinante, me encanta su aceite esencial. ❤
the purple view from the sky is stunning! what a beautiful farm!
Where are you from ❤️❤️❤️
All I can see is all the bees being chewed up by that harvest and am rethinking my lavender usage :(
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Anyone else thinking it probably smells divine at the distillation factory?!
Allahim bu ne guzellik boyle rabbim ne guzellik ler yaratmis emegi gecenlerin ellerine saglik 💟👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Nice to watch harvesting those lavander...lovely color spread on huge farms quite entertaining...bravo from Philippines...🤗
Thank you for showing such a wonderful view that you can't see in Korea. The growth of lavender in a large field was unfamiliar and beautiful.
Excellent video, music selection is spot on. Thanks again for showing us another process.
do you know the name of the first song? I know it’s a real song but can’t remember the name
yes, first song is good, what is that?
Music Name plz.
The best thing about these videos are enjoying the scenery of the farm
Wooow wish I can visit such kind of lovely place🥰
I wont mind working here, the smell would be like heaven I bet
I have a bunch of dried lavander flowers here. Watching this video feels like I literally smell the harvesting from France!
I'd combine this with beekeeping🤔
you'd probably get a surfeit after a day of such work.
Meh, don't get your hopes up. As with any smell you'd get desensitized really fast and stop noticing it. You know the sausage principle? If you love something never find out how its made.
After a while you dont smell it anymore or vaguely.
This looks so cool.. I love how those lavender lanes look from above.
they actually ruined lavanders, now it looks like an industrial product, too mechanical, and no soul.
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You are very beautiful woman with a beautiful smile, I wish you all the best this year, how is the weather over there now
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Probably the best smelling Farm equipment anywhere in the world.
there are worse smelling farms to live next to, but a lavender farm on the side of a french mountain seems like paradise to me.
Very interesting video as always. Always amazing to see the top off the line equipment working, but in this one it was especially interesting to see some off the older/smaller equipment working as well.
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And a glimpse of the pretty girl at 8:02. I wonder, is she from France?
I have always wandered how they produce lavender oil. Now I know and it's very intresting. Glad I came across this video.
I watched one tutorial on farming sim 19, now this is all that is on my recommended. Not complaining.
great video, thanks. just got some lavender oil, so to see the process was nice
Wow, that tractor going over the plant looks so satisfying. It must smell so good in this farm.
i bet! i’ve been to a lavender farm and it smelled amazinggggggggg. if you get a chance you could definitely go to one.
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Yes, but either you’d stop smelling it after awhile or you’d get sick of the smell
I had never bin in this region of europe. So I had no idea, how the farmers harvest lavenderfields. I think, the whole country smells Lavender. hihi
Thanks for this outstanding video and thanks to all the people in france, to allow footages of their hard work.
I’m here lying on my bed 11am, watching harvesting lavender, cranberry, salmon fish , potato chips ,and so on
The colour of those fields is just stunning and I can only imagine the smell...sweet but it must be very strong and intense! What a place to live!
I love lavender😍
3 minutes into this video I sprayed some Lavender air freshener in the room, to get the full effect of this video.
Rifleman, you didn't strike me as the type to have a can of lavender spray around the house
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Lol 🥰🥰🥰🥰💖
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Hahaha brilliant
Watching the process ... wow amazing 👍👍🌿🌿🌷💚💚🌷🌿🌿👍👍
These farms are so beautiful ❤️😍
I can smell that Lavender through my computer screen !
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god, that place and business must smell like heaven!!! all that lavender!!
This would be an awesome job, love the smell of lavender
Look at all those bees 🐝 flying around and enjoying the lavender. Lavender flavored honey is very delicious. I love Honey 🍯 and our beautiful 🐝 who make it. Thank you farmers 🚜.
Me: watched 1 video of farm things
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Ah, I see you are also Bob Ross 😌
Underrated comment...
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Lindo lindo....que cor incrivel dessa planta....
The machines are great and the maker of them is even better!
Ooh! Love the scent of lavender. Interesting to see how it is havested
Могу представить какая обалденная арома в этом районе!! Успеха вам , цивилизованные капиталисты !!
Enjoyable video, love the Massey Ferguson , I have the same tractor here in California on my farm, Made in the U.K. in the 90s and it never fails!
That was great. I learned a lot. Merci!
No matter how hard these people perspire during the day, they go home smelling amazing
that was awesome !! so satisfying to watch. good music, very few words, GREAT video.
amazing to watch, thanks, really enjoyed this well made video!
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Great scenery, everyday images, close to back, strangely unique under the camera angle. Thank you!
สวยงามที่สุด ฉันไปเมื่อเดือนมิถุนายน ที่ผ่านมา มันช่างน่าตื่นเต้น 🥰🥰🥰
J'adore la lavande 💜
Comment va le petit Kenny ?
imagine just the wind blowing those plants and you're near by..
Even the colors of paint on the equipment are chosen thoughtfully!
Super le plateau de valensole nous en gardon un bon souvenir
Fascinating & brilliant.
Absolutely amazing had no idea how they harvest it and process it. We have a small farm about a 1/2 mile from us and they harvest it by hand 👍👍🇨🇦
I think that Lavender is bundled up.
*Awesome video and Content* 😍❤👏🌾
I can smell lavender in my house when i watch this video 😄
Well that's one tractor you don't have to hang a air freshener in.
Yeah probably smells nice out there.
So do all of the bees get sucked in and die?! :(
No, bees move out of the way
@@KandiKlover exactly what I was thinking.
Can you imagine the headaches after three, four days?
Beautiful video sir! Nice work! I love the field! Thanks for the video! Have a great day!!!
U havent even seen the video and u react.. hmmm
Screeniod India bruh wtf?
He put a comment 1 minute after the video was published so he couldn’tve seen it. Why are u reacting with this bs!
z no, it really Doesn’t. If the video had been uploaded 1 MINUTE AGO, there no way he couldve watch the entire video within that 1 minute seriously.
It must smell so beautiful around there. I bet the whole farm/ oil factory is full of very calm people since they’re sniffing lavender all day.
Warm greetings from Indonesia
Thanks Brother for sharing wonderful lavender harvest and oil distillation
Wish you always healthy and happy
God bless you and family
I would love to smell the harvest!
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It smells like lavender.
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You are very beautiful woman with a beautiful smile, I wish you all the best this year, how is the weather over there now
Magnífica parabéns. Grande abraço Brasil
The form lands look beautiful and tractors , oil mill looks amazing
You all need to get yourselves a few lavender plants. They are easy to take care of! The aroma is breathtaking! 😍
Wow this is amazing!💕
You are very beautiful woman with a beautiful smile, I wish you all the best this year, how is the weather over there now
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@@jerrypeter7897 hello
Amazing! These ate the videos i want to see and much better if it is actual. Love it to know we have high tech to harvest those productive plants. Thank you so much for sharing this videos. Keep safe always. God bless 👏👍😍😇🙏
You are very beautiful woman with a beautiful smile, I wish you all the best this year, how is the weather over there now
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No workshop is ever complete without one of those calendars
Good thing those tractors pretty much run themselves, I'd straight fall asleep smelling all that lavender if I was the one harvesting. So relaxing!