Welsh Lavender http://www.welshlavender.com Growing Natural Face & Body Care Products Tue, 15 May 2012 08:55:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Just back from Provence http://www.welshlavender.com/just-back-from-provence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=just-back-from-provence http://www.welshlavender.com/just-back-from-provence/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:32:08 +0000 admin http://sarahcallendertest1.co.uk/?p=476 Continue reading →]]> 26 April 2012

Just back from a tour of lavender country in Provence.  The fields look no further ahead than ours do this time of year.  Lovely to look at even out of bloom.

Mile after mile of lavender fields in Valensole, Provence

 

I love French windows…

Little window in Riez, Valensole

…and doors.

Doors in Valensole, Provence

We saw a sign “lavande a vendre” by a house in Valensole and knocked on the door.  Benjamin Demol, a fire fighter, answered the door and spent the next two hours showing us around his family’s two million plant lavender farm. Merci Benjamin!

Benjamin Demol on the family lavender farm in Valensole, Provence

]]> http://www.welshlavender.com/just-back-from-provence/feed/ 0 Approved by farmer Alwyn Arrowsmith! http://www.welshlavender.com/approved-by-farmer-alwyn-arrowsmith/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=approved-by-farmer-alwyn-arrowsmith http://www.welshlavender.com/approved-by-farmer-alwyn-arrowsmith/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:51:17 +0000 admin http://sarahcallendertest1.co.uk/?p=149 Farmer Alwyn Arrowsmith has been using Ruby Lafant’s soon to launch Farmers’ Hand Cream and says his chaps are gone and that even after washing his hands several times his skin is soft and supple.

 

]]> http://www.welshlavender.com/approved-by-farmer-alwyn-arrowsmith/feed/ 0 First lambs of the year http://www.welshlavender.com/first-lambs-of-the-year/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=first-lambs-of-the-year http://www.welshlavender.com/first-lambs-of-the-year/#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:11:00 +0000 admin http://sarahcallendertest1.co.uk/?p=30 Just spotted.  Two little lambs – it’s early for them up here at 1100 feet.

First lambs spotted in Maesmynis Valley

 

]]> http://www.welshlavender.com/first-lambs-of-the-year/feed/ 0 Builth Wells and District Gardening Club http://www.welshlavender.com/builth-wells-and-district-gardening-club/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=builth-wells-and-district-gardening-club http://www.welshlavender.com/builth-wells-and-district-gardening-club/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:34:36 +0000 admin http://sarahcallendertest1.co.uk/?p=35 Continue reading →]]>

Builth Wells & District Gardening Club

We’ve had lots of local publicity this past year which means local groups want to know about our lavender project. Here are a few of the friendly faces at a talk I gave tonight for the
. Lots of interesting questions followed by both men and women trying out Ruby Lafant. A few weeks ago I told our story to the Wye Valley Grasslands Association and so regret not having my camera. The farmers worked the creams into their hands with gusto. We plan to have something just for them very soon.

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