AIA May 2025 Monthly Webinar - The Farmer-Distiller Perspective with Kurt Arruda and Silvia Jimenez

The Farmer-Distiller Perspective

with Kurt Arruda and Silvia Jimenez

Learner Outcomes:

  • Participants will be able to understand the difference from the two types of essential oil “markets.”
  • Participants will have a better understanding of what local means.

  • Participants will have an open door to new protentional actions for aromatherapists.

One of the recurring themes that we try to reach with aromatherapist is the importance of acquiring essential oils/ hydrolats directly from farmers, this might be a very logical thought process, however, there is a lot of nuance of small complexities that are not considered, not to mention the greenwashing going around.

We would like to highlight this "new" generation of farmers/distillers that are slowly popping around the world that do not fit the traditional market of aromatic plants and how aromatherapists have a gargantuan work to do, to accompany or not, in this shift.

Kurt Michael Arruda, born in Canada, is native of the island of São Miguel, Azores, Portugal, although he has been living in Spain for several years. He shares the same passion for Nature, both terrestrial and aquatic worlds, as he used to spend his days surrounded by green mountains and the deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean from a very young age. He has a real fascination for ecological systems and believes tenaciously that they are the true inspiration for sustainable living and production. After realizing that as a society we are “out of sync” with the living systems to which we belong, he began his personal quest to live in a more harmonious way, eventually finding what he was looking for, Permaculture and Regenerative Agriculture. As well as considering himself an eternal autodidact, he obtained the Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC), Queensland (Australia) and a grade of specialization in Ecological Agriculture in Aragon, Spain.

Course Details

AIA May 2025 Monthly Webinar - The Farmer-Distiller Perspective with Kurt Arruda and Silvia Jimenez
WEBINAR - AIA May 2025 Monthly Webinar - The Farmer-Distiller Perspective with Kurt Arruda and Silvia Jimenez
ASSESSMENT - AIA May 2025 Monthly Webinar - The Farmer-Distiller Perspective with Kurt Arruda and Silvia Jimenez
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