You usually see lavender essential oil in its bottle, but you don’t always see how it got there. During the distillation process, lavender is produced into three different products, which doesn’t let any of the plant go to waste.

“There’s one main product that is our essential oil that we get, but there’s also two co products,” said Caitlin McHenry Director of Agriculture. “Lavender hydrosol, which is the leftover distilled water and all of the leftover plant material which becomes a lavender mulch. So those are the three products that we get from the distillation process. And from there, the essential oil can go into multiple products. So that would include bug sprays, candles, lotions.”

The whole distillation process takes around an hour. Lavender Hill Farm uses a copper still, which t

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