As the lavender harvest continues at Fragrant Isle Lavender Farm, essential oil distillation is in full swing. Fragrant Isle employs centuries old, traditional methods when distilling lavender oil. While some commercial operations use modern techniques that result in short distillation times of thirty minutes or less, the oil produced contains only about 10% of the constituents, resulting in an inferior essential oil not well suited for aroma therapy. Using our copper still and distilling for a