It takes 300 hand pollinated orchid blossoms to get one pound of dried vanilla beans. But due to climate change, the island of Madagascar as well as Mexico, has been seeing more—and more ...

In order for the plants to produce beans, they have to be pollinated ... has greatly reduced its natural habitat. In Madagascar, where over 80% of vanilla is produced, the flowers have to be ...

What we now call Mexico is actually where the vanilla bean plant originated from ... good to use when vanilla is the star of your dish. Madagascar vanilla comes from Madagascar, near the Mascarene ...

A Lakeland-based company is working to make the vanilla bean trade more sustainable by using wind-cargo ships for ...

vanilla bean paste and vanilla powder. The limited growing areas: Originally from Mexico, this orchid plant has limited ...