Jenny Green

Becoming fond of essential oils, especially in their practical production, has been easy. After three generations of outdoor plant production, in 2010 the time has come to change direction and look for a new horizon by cultivating – and culture – diversification.
The activity, due to the position not particularly compatible for herbs, forced me into pondering on the potential of these plants could have in our place.
Lavender grows well in gardens, it has no particular adaptation problems and our winter, despite the frost, does not compromise its vegetative life.
During my research I also chanced upon Hyssopus Officinalis and thus the first planting was directed to both of these aromatic plants, aimed at the essential oil extraction technique learned at Azienda Agricola Capriola di Massimo Corbara.

Later, in 2011, cultivation was implemented with Hybrid Lavender and Lavandula Officinalis. Rosmarinus Officinalis, Lauro Nobilis, Orignum Majorana was bedded out in 2012, even as an experiment adapting to the climate change we have experienced in the last decade.
In 2011 a little plot of land, half hectare, was seeded with flax (Linum Usitatissimum). The seeds obtained are used for the production of pillows, which are going to be used heated (instead of an hot water bottle, for example) or frozen (instead of ice).
Due to the success of the product, the cultivation has been repeated in 2012.

Me, Antonella

I was born and grew up in a nursery farm, where shrubs and trees for gardens were cultivated: my grandfather was a nursery farmer, as my Dad also was. Growing up in this environment allowed me to reinforce my passion for working the earth and cultivating trees. Aromatic plant cultivation may appear far away from that, but there is something really involving and exciting linked to not only the agronomic point of view but also to the olfactory perspective. The idea for which plants, through their fragrance, can heal our way of living, convinced me to begin the distillation project for extracting essential oils.