Indoor saffron farming is a rewarding long-term investment with each bulb promising a decade of golden harvests. You can grow ...

Saffron, often dubbed the 'red gold,' holds the title of the world's most expensive spice. Its hefty price tag is justified ...

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.

An curved arrow pointing right. 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 ...

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

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What did spark joy were the photos from my August trip to Kashmir. October-November marks the saffron harvest season, a time ...

"You can have a huge range in saffron quality, with no indication on the packaging as to what you are buying," says Ms Francis. Often it's simply that careless harvesting has meant some of the ...

Nestled in a picturesque valley beneath the snow-capped Himalayas lies Pampore, a town in the Kashmir region, celebrated as ...

because it is so labour-intensive to harvest. Come October, the crocus plants begin to bloom, covering the fields with bright purple flowers from which strands of fragrant red saffron are picked ...

One reason: Saffron from abroad is far less expensive, because the labor needed to painstakingly harvest each flower and remove its three delicate stigmas by hand is much cheaper than in the ...

Saffron is the red stigma of the Crocus sativus. Each crocus has three small stigmas that have to be picked carefully by hand. This minuscule harvest means that the amount you get from each flower ...