It’s hard work to harvest, but a growing cadre of small farmers and home gardeners are cultivating the spice for profit, or ...

Saffron spice is made by collecting the stigmas, also called threads, of the saffron crocus (Crocus sativus), drying them, then grinding them into a powder. There are three stigmas in each flower ...

Saffron is a pricy spice harvested from a crocus that flowers in the fall. Saffron, the world's most expensive spice, comes ...

Rumi Spice Rumi Spice co-founder Keith Alaniz with Afghan crocus farmers Their company, Rumi Spice, buys saffron crocuses from local growers and employs 380 Afghan women to do the painstaking work ...

Narrator: Saffron comes from the saffron crocus flower. And each flower has three red stigmas — that's the saffron. Ghalehgolabbehbahani: The yield of saffron is really low. You have to hire a ...

As well as a spectacular location, Pampore is India's centre for saffron - a spice so valuable that it is sometimes called red gold. Derived from the crocus plant, saffron fetches around $1,500 ...

Saffron supplements, derived from the dehydrated stigmas of the Crocus sativus flower, can be found in numerous formats including capsules, powders, and teas. Saffron supplements are believed to ...

Narrator: Saffron comes from the saffron crocus flower. And each flower has three red stigmas - that's the saffron. Ghalehgolabbehbahani: The yield of saffron is really low. You have to hire a lot ...

Saffron, a spice derived from the Crocus sativus flower indigenous to Southwest Asia, has been an essential ingredient in our cooking and traditional medicines for centuries. It is celebrated for ...

So just what makes this spice so expensive? 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 ...