We’re a couple of months into the harvest by now, and the beans are coming in strong.
Full Article…The 2022 Harvest Season is Looking Great!
Category: The Vanillery
Beans from Our 2021 Harvest are Coming In!
The Vanillery is featured on the Kauaʻi Visitor Channel
A show about the Vanillery is being broadcast on the Kauai Visitor Channel
Full Article…Harvesting & The Vanillery is Getting Ready to Flower
Out in the vanillery, we’re starting to see the fresh flower buds emerging on the mature vines. Always an exciting time of the year as we anticipate the beginning of a new cycle. These little guys will be sprouting flowers in a couple of weeks!
Full Article…First Harvest of the 2021 Season!
The cycle begins anew! This week we pulled our first harvest out of the vanillery, officially starting the 2021 harvest season. This year is slightly later than most , typically we see our first harvest in the first week or two of January. The harvest season typically goes until late April, so it’s a full 4 months of going into the vanillery to harvest 3 times a week. This year we are expecting a smaller harvest than last year. There were not as many flowers…not sure why but the crowding in the vanillery could be one factor.
Full Article…The New Vanillery has been Built and Planted
We’ve been working on getting this new vanillery (located on the northwest corner of our property) built for a couple of years now. This bit of land was not in use, and several very large “weed” trees were in the way and needed to be removed. No point in planting under a tree you’re going to cut down, so we had to wait until we had the help we needed to get the trees down. The story of getting rid of those trees is long and convoluted, it took several tries to get the job done…but thanks to lots of able help (mahalo: Jonathan, Tim, Christopher, Freddy) and sheer perseverance, we got it done. Once the trees were cleared, we needed… (read)
Full Article…2019 Season Vanilla Beans are now Available
The beans we harvested late last winter have now cured and aged enough to be sold! There will only be limited quantities at first, as beans that were harvested later in the season are not done aging yet.
Full Article…We’re in Peak Vanilla Flowering for the 2019 Season
Lisa and I had an incredible day of pollinating yesterday! We’re pretty sure we’ve never had so many flowers going off before. She and I pollinated 682 flowers, taking us nearly 2 hours to complete the day’s pollination.
Full Article…Kauaʻi Traveler magazine features our vanillery
We’re very pleased to have an article about our vanillery in Kauai Traveler magazine! Read the article here…
Full Article…Mo’o in the Vanillery
I see a lot of these guys in the vanillery. It must be a great environment for them, a million places to hide and hunt, with convenient walkways so you never have to touch the ground. Mo’o is the Hawaiian word for lizard or reptile…it gets a lot of use since geckos are so common here. Mostly the ones I see in the vanillery are the green anoles. They look like tiny dragons, and they have a lot of personality…certainly when compared to a gecko! Their typical green color matches the vanilla foliage perfectly. They can change color, so they’re often referred to as “chameleons” and though they do have eyelids that are a bit like them, they aren’t chameleons. I… (read)
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