The nursery is one of four opened in the region last year as part of an ongoing effort to promote agroforestry—the practice ...

A journey to the remote Indian Ocean island reveals the story behind the fragrant, delicious, ubiquitous spice—and the ...

For one, try beans grown in places other than Madagascar.

It helps that Madagascar is the world's biggest producer of vanilla bean, harvesting 1,000 to 1,500 tons per year. Sponsor Message But what about Tahitian vanilla, with its strong notes of cherry ...

After pollination, the beans require months of meticulous care and up to a year to harvest, which makes vanilla one of the most labor-intensive spices in the world—and explains its premium price ...

The agriculture ministry on Friday declared that the official harvesting season for the vanilla bean will begin on January 5 and continue until April 5 next year. This year's three-month harvest ...

Once ready for harvest, each bean is gently plucked by hand, as vanilla’s signature fragility makes any sort of mechanical harvesting impossible. The beans then spend several weeks drying ...

Growing the pods is labor-intensive ... Then, the meat is topped with black vanilla seeds scraped from the vanilla bean. “It’s like caviar — you’ve gotta be very sparing with it ...