To complicate matters, if you do successfully grow a healthy orchid that lives to produce flowers, the window to capitalize is very small. Vanilla orchids will produce flowers for several weeks, but ...

It takes vanilla beans six to eight months to mature and cure. Photo: Courtesy Many farmers are not aware of the value of vanilla beans whose market prices range from at least Sh60,000 to Sh70,000 ...

Vanilla vines take two to four years to fully mature, and their flowers only bloom on one day of the year. For the plants to produce beans, they must be pollinated that day.

Originally from Tangerine, Florida, Wilson moved to the Flathead Valley in 2002. She started her blog, Pine and Palm Kitchen, ...

Features » Curing your own vanilla beans: Two ways Sunday, June 09, 2013 10:05 am By Diana Duff Special to west hawaii today Share this story ...