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    Barefoot FarmHer

     SONIA GHIGGIOLI 

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    Sonia Ghiggioli
    • Jul 29, 2018
    • 2 min

    Why is Vanilla Soooo Expensive?

    I have had very little to do with orchids in my life except to admire their beauty. Since being back in Agnes Water the past two years I have been up close and personal with these beautiful displays of nature. There is everything to love about them, from their foreign looking vine with its rigid leaves, to the growth rate they have if they are in the right environment, and their amazing flowers with both male and female parts inside. The flower is most spectacular, not for it

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    Sonia Ghiggioli
    • Dec 12, 2017
    • 3 min

    Vanilla - a unique aroma...

    Nearly everyone you talk to knows the distinct aroma of vanilla. It is in their icecream, their perfume, their baked goods, chocolate, medicine and is sometimes said to be a strong aphrodisiac. With all these uses it is strange to think most people do not know much about how it is grown, and that extreme weather events can have a detrimental affect on supply, which sees prices jump in this global commodity. Vanilla is a natural agricultural product, but an artificial replica

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