The Vanilla Bean Project, launched by a Lakeland couple, aims to inject a dose of sustainability into the overseas vanilla ...

A Lakeland-based company is working to make the vanilla bean trade more sustainable by using wind-cargo ships for ...

Aspiring vanilla growers and seasoned agriculturalists in Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are invited to a ...

Vanilla beans begin as the seedpods of a tropical orchid (left); Chocolate is made from the seeds hidden inside the fruit of the cacao tree (right). Florilegius / SSPL / Getty Images Of all the ...