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Step 18Review: Heilala Vanilla
See a full review of Heilala's vanilla beans at the new site. Check out the updated article with more image galleries at www.vanillareview.com.
Website: http://www.reunionfood.co.nz/
Instructables user Boggo is with Heilala Vanilla and posted some comments on this instructable. It's always great to have a someone involved in the vanilla trade stop by. Boggo has an awesome academic style lit review on vanilla. I learned a ton of stuff that will be included in an update to this article.
Heilala Vanilla represents two plantations. They started the first commercial vanilla plantation in Vava'u, Tonga. Unfortunately, it seems you can only get small quantities of these beans from retail shops in NZ and Australia.
The second plantation is the world's first indoor plantation in Tauranga, New Zealand.Get this:
Currently all our production comes from our plantation in Tonga. Tongan Vanilla is of high quality with similar characteristics to Madagascan. A small number of our oldest plants in our NZ glasshouse flowered in spring for the first time and have beans on the vines. The remaining plants will flower this spring and this will be first commercial crop (ED:October 2008?). These plants are imported from Tonga. We are very excited to get to the flowering stage as this validates our approach to date! Time will tell if this Vanilla has different characteristics unique to NZ or geothermal heating.
--E-mail, Garth Boggiss, Mar 4, 2008.
Listen to Garth on a podcast here.
Website: http://www.reunionfood.co.nz/
Instructables user Boggo is with Heilala Vanilla and posted some comments on this instructable. It's always great to have a someone involved in the vanilla trade stop by. Boggo has an awesome academic style lit review on vanilla. I learned a ton of stuff that will be included in an update to this article.
Heilala Vanilla represents two plantations. They started the first commercial vanilla plantation in Vava'u, Tonga. Unfortunately, it seems you can only get small quantities of these beans from retail shops in NZ and Australia.
The second plantation is the world's first indoor plantation in Tauranga, New Zealand.Get this:
Currently all our production comes from our plantation in Tonga. Tongan Vanilla is of high quality with similar characteristics to Madagascan. A small number of our oldest plants in our NZ glasshouse flowered in spring for the first time and have beans on the vines. The remaining plants will flower this spring and this will be first commercial crop (ED:October 2008?). These plants are imported from Tonga. We are very excited to get to the flowering stage as this validates our approach to date! Time will tell if this Vanilla has different characteristics unique to NZ or geothermal heating.
--E-mail, Garth Boggiss, Mar 4, 2008.
Listen to Garth on a podcast here.
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