Today is Day 3 of the harvest. We continued to distill oil, and today was also the bunch harvest. Bunch harvest is when we harvest our dried bunches. Dried lavender bunches are extrememly popular. In addition to looking pretty, they smell divine. Over time, when the scent subsides, you can squeeze them gently to revitalize the scent.With bunch harvesting, the bunches are hand cut, then tied in the field. Here are a row of bunches waiting for pick-up. The bunches are hung upside down for a minimum of two weeks in a darkened drying barn before they are retied with raffia and labeled.
Today we had lots of animal visitors during harvest. Bees, butterflies. And as always, Ceasar, our lavender loving house cat. 
Ceasar likes to hang out with us during harvest. You can usually find him lying near by between the lavender plants, or sometimes under the distiller. He likes to decrease harvest efficiency by placing his body right in front of the next plant to cut, requiring you to move him aside first. He tirelessly repeats this endearing sequence :) Oh well, it *is* a lavender harvest after all!
Ceasar likes to hang out with us during harvest. You can usually find him lying near by between the lavender plants, or sometimes under the distiller. He likes to decrease harvest efficiency by placing his body right in front of the next plant to cut, requiring you to move him aside first. He tirelessly repeats this endearing sequence :) Oh well, it *is* a lavender harvest after all!Ceasar's tricks and all, we finished the harvest today.
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