Secrecies of saffron plantation
Veronique Lazérat
Publication: October 2009
128 pages - 19
Editions Lucien Souny
The book
A remarkable work on this flower of legend realized by a saffron plantation except par.
A complete work which approaches the red gold under all its facets!
The saffron plantations of Make Saint-Blaise with Fontanières (Digs)
Surface:
1 hectare in 2009, is the largest saffron plantation of France.
Production:
2 kilos of saffron in 2008,
3 kilos envisaged in 2009.
Nearly 100 illustrations
sumptuous.
For impassioned history, of botany, gardening and kitchen!
Plantation with harvest:
- manual and demanding work, no stage
mechanized, exclusively artisanal culture
and very respectful of the environment.
- Between 150.000 and 200.000 flowers
are gathered and prepared, one by one
and with the hand, to obtain 1 kilo of dry saffron.
- 1000 to 1200 hours of maintenance per annum, weeding included/understood.
