Harvesting demands specific attention. The desired maturity of the plant cannot be seen from afar, especially concerning buds harvest. It is all a matter of sensations, of touching, observing, it is about relations and proximity, of intimacy so to speak.
We have a wide variety of buds, thus a long, intense harvesting season, mainly in March and April. Different flowers and roots have more scattered harvesting seasons, going through the Summer and the first weeks of Autmun.
Sometimes, the harvesting calenders hustle and overlap, and we are to juggle between the species and places of harvests. Pedoclimatic criterias, the soil and the climate, are decisive for the growth of this plant or that tree. Therefore, the sun exposure and altitude allow us to postpone some harvests. The temperatures drop as we rise in altitude. This phenomenon causes the laddering of the plant life cycle and enable us, if we have different wild harvest sites, to adapt.
Each harvest takes all of our attention. We respect these precious natural sites. We do not harvest from a cultivated plot, but a half spontaneous plot that lives on by itself. Also, we always leave behind a bigger part of the plant that which we take.
When we harvest the buds of a tree, we limit ourselves to 1/5 of what we could possibly harvest, and less, or not at all, when it is a tree that we consider to be too weak, young, small, etc.
Our harvest can be compared to what a small animal could graze.
