Leelanau’s lavender harvest

Joe Adams of Maple City is making his run in the lavender industry with his “Full Circle” Lavender business as he prepares for the second harvest of his young, purple field.

He is now beginning to distill the plant into essential oil by cutting and drying the plant.

“We harvest it, we dry it out in the sun for two or three days, and then we tie it into these bales here, which makes it easy to put it in and take it out of the distiller,” Adams said.