It was my first visit to Tanzania and it was a good experience. Dar was nice and we had a good meeting with our lawyers at IMMMA and they have performed much better than I have expected. We also visited the Danish Embassy in Dar. One of my concerns has been...

In Bukoba we visited a small lot vanilla farmer. The purpose was to learn how the locals cultivated the vanilla. The vanilla plants grew at Jatropha plants under a roof of banana plants. The flowers were pollinated by hand with a needle and several plants had green...

When I was in Bukoba in July, I had asked my good friend Josephat if he could help me find someone that could translate and help me with getting credit on my phone and other really small and simple tasks. I had not one second imagined that the young man that I was...

Since day one it has been clear that the vanilla farm would not be a one-woman show. Not only do I not have the necessary financial pull, but I know that I need partners with other competences and ways of thinking than myself.  Before approaching potential investors I...

First it was a crazy idea, then it became a dream, and now I am going to make it happen: My African vanilla farm. It has been a bumpy ride this far, but I think that I have now found the right path. I don't fool myself into believeing that it will be easy or that I...