{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "alpes-de-haute-provence-fr",
 "type": "Origin",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 1,
 "confidence": "A",
 "sources": [
  "HV-4",
  "GEO-1",
  "TZ-1"
 ],
 "place": {
  "value": "Alpes-de-Haute-Provence",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:137",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the place name as data/1b/harvest.json spells it; the Wikidata item is Q3131 (the department)"
 },
 "region": {
  "value": "the Valensole plateau, the Middle and Upper Verdon and the Asse valley (La Mure-Argens, Barrême, Castellane)",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HV-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:74",
  "confidence": "A",
  "quote": "Dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, et en particulier sur le plateau de Valensole, dans le Moyen- et Haut-Verdon et la vallée d’Asse (La Mure-Argens, Barrême, Castellane), où les enquêtes à l’appui de cette fiche d’inventaire ont été menées, la récolte de la lavande englobe aussi bien celle du lavandin et de la lavande fine que celle de la lavande aspic.",
  "date": "2018-12-12",
  "note": "the areas of the 2018 fieldwork; fine lavender is cultivated above 800 m inside the AOC area (docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:47)"
 },
 "country": {
  "value": "France",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:138",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "coordinates": {
  "lat": 44.09528,
  "lon": 6.24,
  "precision": "a representative point for the department (Wikidata P625), not a field",
  "ref": "Wikidata Q3131 (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) P625",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:141",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "tz": {
  "value": "Europe/Paris",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "TZ-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:144",
  "confidence": "A",
  "quote": "FR\t+4852+00220\tEurope/Paris"
 },
 "harvest_windows": [
  {
   "botanical": "lavandula-angustifolia",
   "months": [
    7,
    8
   ],
   "months_stated": [
    7,
    8
   ],
   "duration_days": null,
   "daily_window": null,
   "text": "July to mid-August at altitude (Argens, Castellane)",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "HV-4",
   "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:156",
   "quote": "En altitude, comme à Argens ou Castellane (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) ou à Grasse (Alpes-Maritimes), la lavande est récoltée sur une période plus longue, du mois de juillet jusqu'à la mi-août.",
   "note": "the sentence says « la lavande », which the fiche uses generically; at Argens the crop is fine lavender (HV-4)",
   "confidence": "A"
  },
  {
   "botanical": "lavandula-angustifolia",
   "months": [
    6,
    7
   ],
   "months_stated": [
    6,
    7
   ],
   "duration_days": null,
   "daily_window": null,
   "text": "Mid-June to early July on the Valensole plateau",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "HV-4",
   "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:157",
   "quote": "À Valensole, la lavande, plus précoce que le lavandin, est récoltée de la mi-juin au début juillet ; le lavandin, lui, est ramassé du 10 juillet environ et jusqu'à la fin du mois de juillet.",
   "note": "the first half of the sentence (« la lavande, plus précoce que le lavandin »: fine lavender, set against lavandin)",
   "confidence": "A"
  },
  {
   "botanical": "lavandin",
   "months": [
    7
   ],
   "months_stated": [
    7
   ],
   "duration_days": null,
   "daily_window": null,
   "text": "From about 10 July to the end of July on the Valensole plateau",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "HV-4",
   "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:157",
   "quote": "À Valensole, la lavande, plus précoce que le lavandin, est récoltée de la mi-juin au début juillet ; le lavandin, lui, est ramassé du 10 juillet environ et jusqu'à la fin du mois de juillet.",
   "note": "the second half of the same sentence; data/1b/harvest.json’s windows list carries fine lavender only",
   "confidence": "A"
  }
 ],
 "traditions": {
  "value": "the growers of fine lavender created the AOC « Lavande de Haute Provence » in 1981, to mark out and have their products recognised",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HV-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:71",
  "confidence": "A",
  "quote": "Dans les années 1980, les cultivateurs de lavande fine se regroupèrent et créèrent une AOC « Lavande de Haute Provence », en 1981, afin de se démarquer et de faire reconnaître les propriétés de leurs produits.",
  "date": "2018-12-12"
 },
 "botanicals": [
  "lavandula-angustifolia",
  "lavandin"
 ],
 "media": [
  "or-3-film"
 ],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/materials#origin-lavender",
  "globe": "/materials#global-origins",
  "map": "/materials#world-map",
  "harvest_table": "/materials#global-origins"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Alpes-de-Haute-Provence is the lavender country on record: the Valensole plateau, the Verdon and the Asse valley. Fine lavender is cut from mid-June to early July on the Valensole plateau and from July to mid-August higher up; lavandin follows at Valensole from about 10 July to the end of July.",
  "body": [
   "Its growers created the AOC « Lavande de Haute Provence » in 1981 to mark out their fine lavender. The point on the globe is Wikidata’s point for the department, not a field, and the clock beside it is local time."
  ]
 }
}