The+Project

(Here is a list of what I've planted and distilled so far, including pictures of each material packed into the still as I distilled it!)

__Garden Plan__
I have basil, lavender, and calendula seeds, and I'll get seeds from the collection at NCF. In our garden already, we have thyme and onion chives growing. I think we'll have a lot of grape tomato plants, too, but I'm not sure.

I planted some nasturtium, basil, and cosmos seeds and started growing them in my room, moved them to the greenhouse, then planted them in my garden.

I also planted a lilac, scarlet bee balm, and honeysuckle. We already have a honeysuckle growing, so I'll have a lot of flowers. There are small buds now.

I harvested thyme and unidentified white flowers from my garden, and dried them in my room. I also harvested and dried snowdrops, onion chives, and crab apples flowers.

I realized that my kitchen is also full of smells, and I started to experiment with pepper and Earl Grey tea.

__The Distillation__
I have a coffee tin, cheesecloth, olive oil, two milk jugs, a copper saucepan. (Materials to make a still/distill with oil or lard). I've built this still, and used it with varying degrees of success. I bought a "student distillation apparatus" - otherwise known as a still - consisting of 2 flasks, a Liebig condenser, a Kjedahl ball, and a stand, and I put it together. (Sorry for the messiness of my room... That's not where it'll stay, because I need a heat source - the stove - but do note all the SYP books under my bed!) I started some distillation in rubbing alcohol.




 * Distilled Scents: **

1) Fir tree

2) Andromeda flowers

3) Thyme



4) Lily of the valley



5) Onion chives (picture coming) (now drying)

6) Crab apple blossoms



7) Pepper



8) Early grey tea (picture coming)