Drought Decimates French Lavender Fields
My most recent visit to Provence, France, in November of 2010 was shocking and very…
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D. Gary Young
April 2011
Cloned Lavender
True lavender (lavande vraie) is a variety named Lavandula angustifolia, and it is all about…
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French Lavender: Encroaching Synthetics
Years ago, sons had a tendency to follow in their fathers’ footsteps, which was certainly…
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Are You Buying Lavender or Lavandin?
Why then are the farmers switching to lavandin hybrid grosso or super? First of all,…
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Growing Lavender: What Are the Costs?
Now let’s look at the numbers today. Land starts at $5,000 per acre. A 2705…
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Thoughts and Prayers for People of Japan
Dear Young Living Family Members, The ongoing disaster in Japan has weighed heavily on the…
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Part 20: Finding Pure Essential Oils
To know how to farm, grow, harvest, and distill essential oil certainly gives an assurance…
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Part 19: Finding Pure Essential Oils
9. Will the soil composition and location affect the plant that is grown there, thereby…
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Part 18: Finding Pure Essential Oils
Following GC analysis, we run the essential oil through a mass spectrometry instrument (MS) to…
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Part 17: Finding Pure Essential Oils
Other factors can also vary the results of an analysis. If the essential oil sample…
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