Lavender cultivation

Die Petite Provence in Ostwestfalen-Lippe

We have been growing our own demeter lavender in our home region, the beautiful Lipperland, since 2014. Started as a demonstration project for alternative agriculture, the purple sea of blossoms has now become a magical place of attraction for people from all over the world.

Lavender in Lippe

Changing the region with lavender – that is the declared aim of our Demeter-certified cultivation project in Petite Provence in Lippe. In our homeland, the beautiful Lippe region, the majority of agricultural land is still farmed conventionally and treated with pesticides. In order to become a leader in alternative agriculture, we started our first trials with lavender cultivation on Lippe land at our former company site in Detmold as early as 2012. The lavender grew so well that we decided to start the first field trial with 50,000 plants in 2014: the birth of Petite Provence in East Westphalia-Lippe.

Just two years later, we were able to harvest our German lavender by hand and extract it in our company’s own water steam distillery. The first test distillation in 2016 then finally shows: the oil from Detmold lavender is of outstanding quality. Some results even surpass those of French lavender. Now, at the latest, it is clear that lavender cultivation on German ground not only works, but also produces healthy and powerful lavender plants.

A scented sea of lavender

We are overjoyed that we have been harvesting wonderful German lavender year after year, from which we produce our own flowery and scented demeter lavender oil. In the meantime, we have a whole range of products on offer that we make from the lavender oil, in addition to the classic essential oil, for example, also a refreshing facial tonic. And because lavender cultivation works so well on Lippe land, we are constantly expanding our fields. Today we grow Demeter-quality lavender on more than 10 hectares of land.

With our cultivation project in the Lippe region, we are also giving wild bees and butterflies threatened with extinction their habitat back. Nevertheless, we are far from having reached the end: We are constantly expanding our cultivation and thousands of new lavender plants are already waiting to be planted.

Lavender from Detmold

If you would like to see our Detmold lavender, you can find all our regional lavender products in our online shop. And if you want to be amazed by the purple sea of blossoms in Petite Provence, you should definitely pay us a visit during the summer months. Here you can find all the information about your visit to Petite Provence.