Eco-Friendly & Sustainable
The Gathering Place ingredients are organically grown, hand-blended, handpicked and sustainably harvested worldwide to protect our planet.
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Gathering Place vanilla beans are fresh, fragrant and rich in flavour. Vanilla planifolia is the only orchid in the world that produces an edible fruit.
Vanilla beans are the second most expensive spice because of the labor intensive pollination and harvesting process. One vanilla bean can grow from each flower. The vanilla flowers last no more than a day, so the vines must be continually monitored and pollinated. Once pollinated the vanilla flower will wilt and die within hours, and in a few days the vanilla bean will begin to grow in it's place. Even after the plants have produced their pods, they must be checked daily so that each pod is harvested at just the right time. There may be white crystals on the inside or outside of your bean. This is just crystallized vanillin, the compound that gives vanilla beans their flavour.
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Why Buy From Gathering Place Trading?
The Gathering Place ingredients are organically grown, hand-blended, handpicked and sustainably harvested worldwide to protect our planet.
We travel the world to create partnerships with small family farms to provide the freshest ingredients, with no mass production and no middle man.
All Gathering Place farmers, families and partners are fairly paid and treated with integrity and love.
Not only are we a family business, but we grow our own products and every member of the family holds an essential role.
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