Clairmont Farms

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We grow organic lavender.

About us

Clairmont Farms

Clairmont Farms is a family owned lavender farm located at 2480 Roblar Avenue, Los Olivos, California in the Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara County. We have five acres of Grosso variety lavender, which is the most potent variety and yields the most oil upon distillation. The fields are breathtakingly beautiful with the backdrop of the Santa Ynez Mountains.  Three hundred year old oak trees dot the grounds, and the driveway is lined with olive trees that were planted by the Spanish Missionaries over 180 years ago. Videographers, photographers and painters come each year and apply their craft, especially during the peak bloom.

Our main field blooms from mid June to mid to late July. The exact time of the peak bloom varies from year to year with the weather. Just as one would suspect, warm weather in the spring will encourage an earlier bloom. Very hot weather during the bloom will cause it to accelerate, and cool and foggy weather will help extend it.

Our farm is organic.   We harvest both traditionally by cutting each plant by hand, banding, and hanging the bunches. We also harvest with a modified gas powered hedge clipper, harvesting and trimming for the year at the same time. The mechanized cut is sun dried, thrashed, sifted and steam distilled in our 250 liter copper still here on the farm. The resulting oil is organic, highly concentrated, and sweeter because it has been made with a low temperature process in copper See our video "distill process" on the "lavender info” page for more information. Used for millennia, lavender is the best-known herb for its medicinal and healing properties.  Many other species of lavender grow on the farm. Organic culinary lavender is also offered.

In addition to our essential oil, we also offer a complete line of lavender based products. We have soaps, sachets, hand lotions, body butter, shampoo conditioner, bath scrubs even cookie mix and dog shampoo. Distiller demonstrations take place whenever requested with no charge.  Visitors are welcome to stroll through the fields, picnic and shop in our boutique and look at the distiller, both located next to the fields.  

Directions can be printed from our “DIRECTIONS” page