Aerial view of lavender rows curving with the hillside contour, Zululand

The farm / KwaZulu-Natal — est. 2019

28.54° S, 31.27° E

Zululand · Own ground

Forty-two hectares of red clay loam in the Zululand hills, eleven of them under lavender. What this ground can’t grow well, we don’t grow at all.

Altitude840 m

Rainfall760 mm/yr

CertifiedEcoCert · SAOSO

We grow on a hillside in the interior — high enough for cool nights, wet enough in summer to farm on rain. Lavender on the east slope, rose geranium west, vetiver down by the river. Harvest is by hand, early, before the heat lifts the oil out of the flower.

Hands bundling cut lavender at morning harvest

Close view of turned red clay loam soil with granite grit

First cut, east rowsThe ground itself

The still house with steam still, copper condenser and wood store

One still, run slow.

Steam, unrectified, wood-fired. The rows go to the still the same morning they’re cut, and what the plant gives in a single pass is what goes in the bottle. Every run is logged, and every batch carries its log.

Every batch traceable — GC/MS, CoA on fileRead the field notes →