The Family Estate

TERRE UGO, a family adventure led by Ugo's grandchildren!

Ugo's family has chosen to share and preserve this place. She opens her doors to you to make you discover this authentic nature.

The project is the initiative of Lisa, Ugo's granddaughter, decides to rehabilitate the lavender plantations, existing in the last century on the plateau of Puyricard. It is in the spring of 2017, that in family, are planted the 30,000 feet of organic lavender. The choice is established on lavandin Grosso:

This species of lavender is the result of a natural hybridization between true lavender and spike lavender. Its cultivation has spread in Provence, notably for its resistance to climate and diseases, and for its yields during the extraction of essential oil. This species is cultivated between 200m and 1000m of altitude.

The grandchildren who carry the project:

If Lisa takes care of lavenders, Florian is passionate about bees.

His first hives under large, friendly trees were given to him by Ugo. The bees gather wild flowers and buds in early spring, then lavender will feed the colony during the summer.

The Family

Ugo our grandfather

History

The land was cultivated in market gardening for nearly 30 years, Ugo sold his vegetables to wholesalers working on the ground floor of the Pasteur parking lot in Aix-en-Provence.

In 1984 the domain was colored in a thousand and one shades, Ugo decided to stop market gardening and to live from his passion: flowers!

This passion was born in Grasse in 1924, when he was 9 months old and his parents left the Italian Piedmont to work for the great perfumers. Born of a happy childhood among the intoxicating scents of rose, jasmine or tuberose, Ugo "raises" his flower seeds in a large greenhouse during the winter, plants them in the fields in the spring and sells them at the markets of Aix-en-Provence, Puyricard and on the estate.

THE DOMAIN

The Aix countryside

Since the XVIIth century, this old stone farmhouse watches over the 7 hectares of this land of Provence, today blue lavender.

This Family House located on the plateau of Puyricard 5 kilometers from Aix-en-Provence, has 3 hectares of organic lavandin planted in 2017.

During the lavender flowering season, from June to August, the estate opens its doors to allow people from all over the world to enjoy the field.

Marked with the Royal Seal of Louis XIV, this place once housed one of the ice houses of Aix en Provence.

In 1681 the old farm was an important economic pole for the city of Aix en Provence. An ice house was built there, allowing to supply the city with ice. 180 000 liters of ice were collected, stored and cut.

A royal privilege gave Madeleine de Gaillard De Venel, governess of the nieces of Cardinal Mazarin, the revenues of these buildings.

Now gone, TERRE UGO tells their story.