Lavender Harvest & Oil Distillation | Valensole - Provence - France 🇫🇷| Claas Jaquar 840
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- 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.
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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Brilliant video. . and informative,
Great images of the Lavender fields being worked . .
Merci . 👍👍
The aroma must be wonderful.
Smells like your grandma’s bathroom I bet! Old birds love lavender.
Relaxing
This Must Smells Amazing !
The simplicity of rural life is something I really admire
I'm from Brazil, I think these videos are amazing!
J'y étais cet été, ca sent trop bon !
Agriculture technology has come so far! This video highlights some of the key innovations effectively
Beautiful video 👍🚜
Great video as always 👍
Love lavender it’s a beautiful flower th colour/smell kps bugs away in veg gardens & looks amazing !!
*colour/smell - colour and smell
Salom uzbekistondan🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿
Mooie video!
Lovely. Hopefully Giants Software sees this and gets this added to FS sometime!
That's a very large lavender farm. How many tons each harvest I wonder... 🤔
Greeting from southeast Asia. 👋
What header are they using to cut it?
Hele aparte teelt denk?
Waar komt dat gras vandaan wat ze lossen buiten? Ze oogsten toch alleen dat paarse?
Denk dat ze stiekem toch een stuk groene stengel mee af knippen
Dat is wat er over blijft nadat de lavendel uit de destilleerderij komt. Door de hitte blijft er van de paarse kleur niks meer over
Can this machine cut grass? My friend wants to buy it to cut grass for the cats to eat hahaha
Love the video, hate the music
Agree. Music is about as appealing as a dog’s butt.
are there any videos from the uk coming? I've seen some stuff in your instagram 🤔🫣