It’s hard work to harvest, but a growing cadre of small farmers and home gardeners are cultivating the spice for profit, or simply pleasure. Bulb-like corms, at top, produce saffron crocuses.

A new agricultural frontier is blooming in South Africa, with saffron offering a highly lucrative opportunity for farmers.

But despite the prices his crop fetches, and the weighty comparisons those figures inevitably invite, the life of a saffron grower is not without its trials, travails, and frustrations.

Skinner has been collecting data about climates and their corresponding challenges to share with farmers aiming to diversify their crops by planting saffron. “As it turns out,” she says ...

Kashmir’s saffron farmers are losing 30 percent of their crop to the rodents as deforestation pushes them into farms. A Kashmiri farming family pick saffron stigmas from the flowers at their ...

Historians believe that saffron crocus flowers are native to Asia Minor and the lands around the Mediterranean Sea and that they were first domesticated as a crop in either what is now modern-day ...

After a successful cultivation of saffron crop for the first time in Bara tehsil of the Khyber district, now its harvesting has been started through which farmers have earned substantial income as ...

According to reports, production of the saffron crop in Pampore, India “has reduced by over 60% in the past 20 years.” Saffron Tech’s proprietary protocol for growing multiple cycles of ...

For Saffron farmer Ashiq Hussain, the flowering of the crop has been in abundance this year and the yield is more than last year, thanks to late rains in the month of October. The spice fetches ...

Kashmir’s saffron farming has come under threat from global warming. Declining yields have resulted in production dropping to 15 tons annually. Erratic weather patterns, unseasonable warmth, and ...

The Philipps are part of a resurgence of interest in growing saffron among American small farmers in search of a cash crop, and among cooks and backyard gardeners seeking the thrill of growing the ...