The next most expensive spice? Vanilla ... to hand-pick 170,000 flowers to create just one pound of saffron. The purple flowers only bloom over a 6-week period from late September to early ...

The next most expensive spice? Vanilla ... to hand-pick 170,000 flowers to create just one pound of saffron. The purple flowers only bloom over a 6-week period from late September to early ...

Researchers are testing whether growing saffron, one of the most expensive spices in the world, could help Georgia farms.

Saffron is undoubtedly the most expensive ... cloves are used in both cooking and traditional medicine. The spice is harvested before the flowers bloom and then dried in the sun.

The Philipps fell for the sweet, musky flavor of saffron — and were intrigued to learn it was the world’s most expensive spice ... that produce the saffron flower. And this past November ...

And real saffron can cost you over $10,000 per kilogram. Sought after for thousands of years as a spice, a dye, and a medicine, you need over 150 flowers to make just 1 gram of saffron.

This is where most of saffron is farmed in India, the world's second-largest producer behind Iran of the spice ... begin to bloom, covering the fields with bright purple flowers from which ...

This is where most of saffron is farmed in India, the world's second-largest producer behind Iran of the spice, which costs up to 325,000 rupees ($3,800) a kg (2.2 pounds) because it is so ...

Kashmir’s Saffron Farmers Turn To Indoor Cultivation Amid Climate Changes PAMPORE, (Reuters) – Nestled in a picturesque valley beneath the snow-capped Himalayas lies Pampore, a town in the ...