Website: http://www.hawaiianvanilla.com/
If you’re visiting the Hawaiian Vanilla Company, would you please contact me — I need help buying some of these vanilla beans.
Vanilla is grown commercially in very small quantities on the Big Island of Hawaii. You can buy expensive bottles containing one ($10) or three ($25) vanilla beans from the Hawaiian Vanilla Company.
Jim Reddekopp at the Hawaiian Vanilla Company says that their vanilla sells to local restaurants and hotels so fast that there’s no bulk beans left for me (or you!). I recommend that you contact Clare at Huahua Farm, also on the Big Island. If the timing is right, you might be able to buy some vanilla beans from her.
Thanks to Hawaiian Vanilla Company for providing some photos of their vanilla plantation.
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