Picture this: roughly about half a football field covered in delicate purple flowers, blooming for just two weeks out of the ...

Andrew Blok covered home energy, with a focus on solar, and navigated the changing energy landscape to help people make smart energy decisions. He's a graduate of the Knight Center for Environmental ...

Saffron is called the Red Gold because of its high value, deep red colour, rarity, medicinal properties and global demand.

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — Saffron is not commonly grown in the United States and wasn’t grown at all in Southern New England until the last couple of years. But saffron is now sprouting up at the ...

Finding a safe house in Afghanistan for saffron - that's right, saffron. The spice was high on Mohammad's list as he watched the Taliban take over his home country. Now, we're just using his first ...

Gulzar Ahmad Kuchay has been farming, harvesting, and selling Kashmiri saffron — known to be the best variety of the spice — for over 30 years. Every autumn, his family comes together for the annual ...

ASKAOUN, MoroccoASKAOUN, Morocco — A 10-year-old boy calls for the dawn prayer in an isolated village in Morocco’s Atlas mountains, announcing a laborious day racing against the clock to harvest ...

Next month, a group of eager farmers will be attending the second annual saffron-growing workshop held at the University of Vermont in Burlington. The goal? Getting the inside scoop on cultivating ...

Moonflowers is a new company that employs women in the Herat region of Afghanistan. By Florence Fabricant The dried threads of autumn crocus, only three per flower, make saffron, the intense, precious ...

Caitlin Dalton’s planning and preparation began back in August for her ideal recipe that she wanted to make for her holiday work lunch carry-in last month. Dalton contacted me last fall to tell me ...

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - It is early morning in a saffron field outside the western Afghan city of Herat and dozens of women are harvesting the delicate purple flowers, working quickly to gather ...

You've probably heard someone call saffron "red gold," and maybe you wondered if that was just marketing hype. It's not. This ...