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Canabec Ar Leur
Every flower the House sells comes from this plot. There is no other, there is no buying and reselling, and there is no subcontracted growing. This page describes the exact place each batch comes from.
Where
At an altitude of 755 feet, halfway up the slope. The highest point of the municipality is at 942 feet, the village some hundred feet above the plot. Neither a valley floor — so no frost hollow and no fog lingering in the morning — nor a hilltop plateau exposed to the wind.
Due south exposure, gentle slope, land zoned as a natural area in the local planning document.
The soil
Sandy loam, on granitic grus — Quintin granite weathered in place (see The Kreiz Breizh terroir). A soil that drains quickly after rain and warms up early in spring; a soil that does not hold water in July. That is what explains the hand watering — not a preference of method.
Before
Fallow land and meadow. The land was not being farmed when it was taken over, in 2022.
First crop in 2023, in Full Sun. It was this first harvest that won the CBD Platinum Cup in April 2024 and third prize at Analyse Cru in February 2024: both of the House’s awards are for the plot’s first year.
The areas
The land covers about 1.2 acres, hedge banks included. About half an acre is cultivated — less than half the total.
Two units, not to be confused. The ground footprint, in the open field:
- 100 large plants, grown individually, ten feet apart — nearly 100 square feet per plant, or nearly 10,000 square feet;
- 100 plants in rows, smaller, just over three feet apart in the row and six and a half feet between rows — about 21.5 square feet per plant, or about 2,150 square feet.
And the canopy, under structures: 215 square feet per structure, two structures. A third is planned for the 2027 season.
Two hundred plants in the ground, 430 square feet of canopy under tarps, ten feet between two large plants. These figures speak for themselves, and the rest of the land — nearly three-quarters of an acre — is not cultivated.
The structures, and what they are not
These are not greenhouses in the usual sense of the word. The tarps — clear and blackout — are moved by hand throughout each cycle, opened or closed as the plant requires, and never permanently closed. The clear one protects from rain, hail and wind; the blackout one shuts out the light to control the photoperiod. Between two interventions, the plant is under the open sky.
That is what allows us to write “under direct sun” on a flower grown in Sun Dep, and it is also what forbids calling these structures greenhouses.
A single structure carries up to three successive cycles in a year.
What grows around it
Planted banks to the north and west — the Breton bocage, an earth bank topped with a hedge. Oaks grow on them, some a hundred years old, along with hazel, hawthorn, elder and blackberries. These banks belong to the property. To the east, a part left wild, and meadow.
A hedge on a bank is not decoration. It breaks the wind, it holds the soil on the slope, it shelters the beneficial wildlife that does the protective work described in Living soil, and it gives the plot edges that are never worked. Under a rain that falls four days out of ten, it is also what holds the soil in place.
The four growing methods, explained by the place
| Growing method | What it is | Why here | On this plot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full Sun | Full cycle in the ground to natural maturity. No light deprivation, no cover, no added light. | The harvest falls in mid-October, when the rain has returned. It is the most exposed growing method: nothing protects the plant, at any point. | Harvests 2023, 2024 and 2025 |
| Sun Dep | Light deprivation with a blackout tarp to trigger flowering. Harvest in July or August. | Bringing the flower in before the fall rains return. | Harvests 2025 and 2026 |
| Greenhouse | A late-season cycle under a structure, without light deprivation: the photoperiod shortens by itself. September to November. | Making use of the end of the season without enduring the November rain. | Legendary Skunk — cycle in progress, fall 2026 |
| Light Dep | Supplemental LED light during vegetative growth, for the photoperiod only, then light deprivation in May. Start in March. | The March day is too short to keep a plant in vegetative growth: the LED serves to delay flowering, never to feed the plant. | First cycle in March 2027 |
Swipe the table →
For two seasons, the plot knew only Full Sun: 2023 and 2024. In 2025, Full Sun continues — OGZ, Rocket Sauce — and the first Sun Dep flowers come in: Lulu La Nantaise and CHKI Selection. In 2026, Sun Dep yields Legendary Skunk and Château Izno, and the first Greenhouse cycle is under way this fall, following the summer cycle on the same structure. Light Dep will open the 2027 season, in March.
A growing method does not arrive here to be tried out. All four were run and mastered beforehand — on this plot or on the farms the House supports. What changes from one season to the next is not the method: it is when the flower comes in.
The 2024 harvest is not sold as flower. These batches are in stock, set aside for extraction.
Every batch carries the growing method under which it grew. See the House cultivars or the flowers for sale.