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Koefaga Vanilla

Koefaga Vanilla

Patricia Hunter spends her year between Motueka and Niue Island, where she sources her cured vanilla pods from local growers and curers. The vanilla is grown under a group Bio-Gro organic certification scheme.
Vanilla is the only orchid to bear a seed pod. Vines are trained up support structures, often trees, and at flowering time, one flower on each bunch comes out per day, for a four to six week season. Every flower has to be hand-pollinated, contributing to the cost of the labor-intensive vanilla crop. The pods take nine months to mature and curing can take up to five months, all weather dependent. It then takes a year to steep the pods to get a good extraction before the extract and paste are packed. Niue grows the Tahitian variety of vanilla, recognised as an excellent culinary vanilla.

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