Pocket Rough Guide Weekender Jersey by Rough Guides

Author:Rough Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Jersey
Publisher: Apa Publications
Published: 2024-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

St. Brelade has free-draining soil and a mild climate, providing the perfect growing conditions for lavender.

Visit Jersey

Moulin de Quétivel is the only working mill left in St Peter‘s Valley, and still grinds its own flour.

National Trust for Jersey

Jersey Lavender

Continuing on the B58, go straight over the next crossroads for the A12. Turn left here and right at the roundabout which bypasses the airport and brings you into St Brelade. Just after the Quennevais shopping precinct turn left along the B25, signposted to Jersey Lavender 5 [map] (www.jerseylavender.co.uk). The fields of lavender, covering 9 acres (4 hectares), provide a Provence-like blaze of purple throughout the summer. This is a family-owned and -run business that was set up in the 1980s. The garden contains around sixty different varieties of lavender, plus dozens of culinary, medicinal, aromatic and dyers’ herbs. The lavender is cut by hand, distilled on site and the essential oils matured and blended with other ingredients to produce eau de toilette, colognes, soap, lotions and lavender bags. You can join a guided tour of the farm, where all the different stages of harvesting and production are explained, and there are also audio tours, and talks about the distillation process.

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