We buy where it grows.
Origin Craft brings you exceptional baking ingredients from carefully chosen origins. We work one origin at a time, because a batch that stays sealed from farm to bag is one we can describe honestly, and a label we can stand behind.
From a vine in Uganda to your pantry
Vanilla grows as an orchid vine, trained up living trees. These are the vines our beans come from.
Pods are picked one at a time as they ripen, then collected and weighed the same day.
Weeks of sun and careful handling turn green pods into dark, supple, aromatic beans.
The finished beans are sorted by length, bundled in paper, and sealed. That seal holds through delivery.
From harvest to your kitchen
Five steps, and the seal never breaks.
Selected at origin
Chosen for aroma, length and appearance. Every listing carries the numbers in its spec table.
Sealed by the producer
Bagged and sealed before export, so nothing is opened, blended or repacked along the way.
Cleared for import
Our imports are FDA-cleared and come from an FDA-registered supplier facility.
Received and checked
We import each batch ourselves and check it in before it joins the pantry.
Fifteen beans to bulk
The same batch serves a home kitchen and a production floor. Only the quantity changes.
Where we buy now
Uganda. The batch we have now was selected for bold, chocolatey depth, then sealed and shipped whole. Ceylon cinnamon from Sri Lanka is planned next; it joins the pantry when the right harvest is secured, not before.
Words on our labels
Plain definitions for the terms we actually use.
- Single origin
- One country, one growing region, one harvest. Never blended across regions to hit a price or a flavor average.
- Batch
- The harvest a bag came from. Each spec table describes the batch it ships from.
- Sealed at origin
- Bagged and sealed by the producer before export. The seal remains intact from the producer to your door.
- Grade
- A vanilla trade standard. Grade A pods are supple, for bakes where the seeds show. Grade B pods carry less water, which suits extract.
Start with the current batch
A fifteen-bean bag is enough to judge it. When it meets your standard, the pound is there.
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