Saffron, which is taken from the stigmas of the saffron crocus, is a lucrative crop. Also called oro rosso, or red gold, it was first introduced into the region around the 13th century — an ...

Saffron is a pricy spice harvested from a fall-flowering crocus. Learn how to grow it to harvest your own saffron.

Harvesting saffron requires a lot of physical labor to get the flowers from the field to final packaging. The harvesting process plus its distinct flavor, smell, ...

Saffron harvest brings a new gold rush Gourmet demand for a forgotten flower's precious spice is bringing hope, and work, back to Spanish farms.

Though this year’s harvest weighed in at more than 360 grams, Ms. Mandl-Abramson says that she, too, is focused on making saffron products. A saffron tincture, used for medicinal purposes, is ...

Saffron crocuses are not a difficult crop to grow. They're propagated from corms, a fleshy bulblike root that's planted in summer for an autumn harvest.

Dry weather has hit Greece's saffron harvest producing just 1.5 tonnes this year. Krokos, Greece CNN — It’s a meticulous harvest which forbids the use of a spade, let alone tractors.

Gulzar Ahmad Kuchay has been farming, harvesting, and selling Kashmiri saffron — known to be the best variety of the spice — for over 30 years.

One reason saffron is so expensive while the plant itself, crocus sativus, remains relatively cheap, is that harvesting requires such a time-consuming, intricate, non-mechanized process.

Saffron Splendor. Season 1 Episode 106 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Come to Kelseyville, California, and join the harvest fun at the largest saffron farm in North America, which also ...

Saffron, commonly known as Crocus sativus, is the thread-like center of saffron flowers plucked from the flower after ...