This farm experience will be calendared in a new season when all the roses are majestically in bloom. Stay tuned.
It's been a long time dream of mine - to grow enough roses - the fragrant, damask roses for distillation. This experience project will be schedule as a mini-retreat, soul renovating experiences - where retreat guests will participate in gathering baskets of roses from the gardens and take them to the distillation center (what we call the Sanctuary) - and then together - experience the beautiful process of distillation.
A light lunch of garden salad, farm baked sourdough and mint tea would be served. Before leaving the retreat, each guest will receive a small bottle of rose hydrosol.
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The sacred drips of perfectly distilled Rose Hydrosol begins. 🌹
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Our first rose distillation experience:
The ladies arrived, connected with each other, a few bottle fed the baby goats, some grabbed coffee, baskets and then in teams of two - sauntered to the gardens and began to select the most fragrant roses. There was more than we had anticipated. The 20L still needed to be filled and it was.
In the near future, we will distill our Immortelle, Yarrow, Lavender, and Roses. The Friends of the Farm donors will be receiving a small gift/thank you of one of our farm’s beautiful bottles of distillate. 🌱
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Beautiful Samah from Sudan Mission & Essence of the Earth
