How doTERRA Peppermint Essential Oil is Harvested (Translated Subtitles)

<<13>> I grew up here, so I was born on the farm.

<<17>> I grew up just in the house next door.

<<19>> I remember long hours and when I was growing up we worked

<<23>> seven days a week, didn’t make any difference

<<26>> what day of the week it was – it was a work day.

<<29>> We’d go back to school in the Fall and the teacher always

<<32>> wanted you to write your first paper of, "what did you do this Summer?"

<<37>> Well, it was always, I didn’t have to write very much.

<<40>> Work, worked every day and that’s just the way it was.

<<44>> My first memories of farming as a kid were

<<47>> driving combines or helping burn fields,

<<49>> as soon as school was out I was headed home to the farm.

<<51>> My Dad got started farming when he was a senior in high school,

<<55>> he was renting about 150 acres and just kind of started farming

<<59>> from there, ended up going into a venture with some peppermint.

<<62>> The reason it’s such an honour for us to work with the Vernell family

<<66>> is because they take such pride in what they do.

<<69>> They love growing peppermint, they love harvesting peppermint.

<<72>> If you look at this distillery, this is a state of the art distillery.

<<75>> You won’t find anything like this anywhere else in the world.

<<78>> They understand everything that’s going on from start to finish.

<<83>> As soon as the trucks start bringing in the tubs we just watch

<<87>> for when they’re going to hook them up and make sure

<<89>> they get the steam going.

<<90>> When the steam comes up to pressure we’ve got different buttons here to

<<94>> regulate the steam and it’s just a lot of pacing back and forth in here,

<<99>> watching 16 different bays and making sure it happens right.

<<103>> This year we’re harvesting 520 acres of peppermint

<<106>> and we’re going to plan on doing that in 8 and a half days.

<<110>> We’re cooking right now about 102 to 103 tubs per day.

<<115>> The Willamette Valley tends to have an oil that’s more sought after

<<119>> than other places in the United States or around the world

<<121>> and a lot of it just has to do with the climatic conditions here.

<<125>> When the plant starts to bloom, the quality of the oil starts to change.

<<128>> We don’t want to end up with oil that’s not of the consistency that the consumer wants.

<<133>> Although we could get more oil by letting the plant get more mature,

<<137>> there’s a certain time in there when we have the best quality for the maturity.

<<141>> Because of the care they put into their fields

<<143>> and making sure they’re free of weeds,

<<145>> we get the finest peppermint in the world.

<<148>> We want to be the best in whatever it is that we’re doing so

<<152>> I love it when the Wellness Advocates come to visit our distillery.

<<157>> It’s such an emotional experience to me to be able to

<<161>> talk about something that we are so passionate about.

<<166>> To see the impact of our efforts, of our hard work,

<<169>> through the stories that are then told to us.

<<172>> I know it means a lot to them, and when they share with others

<<176>> about peppermint oil, they know exactly where it came from and

<<181>> they can be an even stronger advocate for the use of peppermint oil

<<186>> and you think, “wow, we really are making a difference”.