If you happen to live in the region of Beauce, Quebec where the company is based and you have a cedar hedge, you may be sitting on a gold mine!Top quality cedar leaves can sometimes be hard to come by. Owner Monsieur Cloutier makes about 60-100 trips each week to pick-up his precious coniferous trimmings.

Mr. Cloutier extracts approximately 2,800 litres of essential oils each year. In order to achieve this, he uses close to 1,400,000 pounds of coniferous branches, leaves and needles.

The purchase price for the conifers varies between $0.08 per pound for cedar branches and $0.14 per pound for the leaves. In terms of the sales of his essential oils, the prices are based on the global market and are non-negotiable.

All that's left after the oils have been extracted is a residue made up of wood chips. This pulp is completely soaked with water and useless to anyone except landscapers, who can use it to line flower boxes.

In order to prepare the pulp for re-use in landscaping, it has to be strained, filtered and then stored in a dry environment. Mr. Cloutier hopes to eventually build a pulp processing plant. And there's no shortage of space on his property for these future buildings.