Direct Sourcing
We gather authentic and trustworthy ingredients from hand-selected family farms and community sourcing partners. No one in the middle, just farmers to families.
Gathering Place Vanilla Beans come from the Vanilla planifolia orchid - the only orchid in the world that produces an edible fruit. They are grown organically by a farmer’s cooperative in India that puts care for the Earth front and centre. Our vanilla beans are grown, hand harvested, and cured in small batches and immediately shipped to us.
Did you know that vanilla beans are the second most expensive spice in the world? It's due to the labour-intensive pollination and harvesting process. Only one vanilla bean can grow from each flower and the vanilla flowers last no more than a day, so the vines must be continually monitored and pollinated.
Gathering Place Vanilla Beans are fresh, fragrant, and rich in flavour. See the write-up below for ways to use your beans. 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.
Welcome to Gathering Place Trading,
Planet Over Profit
Why Buy From Gathering Place Trading?
We gather authentic and trustworthy ingredients from hand-selected family farms and community sourcing partners. No one in the middle, just farmers to families.
We are proudly Green Business Certified, always purchase Canadian-grown products when available, offer our employees CO2 credits for car pooling or biking, and use 100% recyclable packaging.
We only partner with certified organic and non-GMO farms and suppliers who meet global food safety standards.
We love leading with our heart and hope to inspire change by humanizing the global food industry.
We take great joy in re-investing 1% of our total sales back into grassroots projects in the communities where our products are grown.
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