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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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