About us
About Vanilor
A small family vanilla farm we’re building in Bangkok, and an animated story that grows with it.
What Vanilor is
Vanilor is a vanilla farm we’re building on one family-owned plot of 528 m² in the middle of Bangkok. Fully planted, it will hold 1,000 vines of Vanilla planifolia, and every flower on them will be pollinated by hand. The farm is still being built and our first harvest is still ahead of us, so for now we prepare, learn and write down what we learn.
The farm is also the setting of an animated series. Vanillin, a small explorer, searches for Vanilor across 52 one-minute episodes, helped by four companions who are the crops that will grow beside the vanilla: turmeric, lemongrass, cacao and black pepper. The series follows the farm’s real calendar, and its last episode is timed to our first harvest.
Who runs it
Vanilor is run by its three co-founders.
- Aody
- Co-founder
- Fabrice
- Co-founder
- Maxime
- Co-founder, technology and marketing. Writes the vanilla guides and recipes on this site.
How we write the guides
Our own numbers
Plot size, vine count, flowering and harvest months come from our farm plan. As the farm gets built and the plan changes, the pages change with it.
Checked, then kept simple
Botany, curing and production figures are checked against agricultural research and official statistics. Recipes use classic proportions and home equipment; nutrition is estimated from USDA tables.
Dated and corrected
Every guide shows when it was last updated. If you spot a mistake, write to us and we will fix it.
Write to us
Questions, corrections, partnerships or press: one address, read by the three of us.
hello@vanilor.orgEpisode 1 is being drawn
Join the expedition
Get the first episode when it is out, Vanillin’s diary from the farm once a month, and first pick of the first jar of vanilla sugar.
One letter a month. Leave whenever you like. We first send you an email with a link, and you join only when you click it to confirm. See our privacy notice.