Starting a Lavender Farm – Professional Cultivation of Lavender
Growing commercially lavender for fresh or dried flowers and produce essential oil
Current Status
In process
Problem or Opportunity
It takes three years for a lavender plant to mature for making lavender oil.
Solution (product or service)
But, cutting can be taken in the first three years for dried flowers and buds.
Turning crop into end products for retail adds value to product as opposed to wholesaling. We will Try offering gardener's hand cream, lavender cleanser, lavender-scented goats' milk soap, lavender spritzer, lavender wreaths or fruit and lavender jelly, for instance. Create distinctive products.
Competitors
We have good field for Lavanda farm
Advantages or differentiators
Lavanda life it’s 25 years
Money will be spent on
All processes
We must will be prepared to control weeds, water plants when young, trim plants after harvest and if necessary, again at late winter/early spring. This is the maintenance that is required on lavender plants. Controlling weeds is the number 1 maintenance effort in having a lavender field.
