Ndali

15/09/2017

This is why we've been quiet for a while: take a look at what a great team has been up to on Ndali. With the help of fabulous volunteers, staff, family, farmers and Ndali Vanilla sales, we've been able to build the first phase of a very unusual primary school in a rural setting, which offers 20 minutes of yoga every day. Guiding all of this and offering so much trust, despite our madness, is our founder - yogi, mystic and visionary humanitarian, Sadhguru. How much more blessed can you get?

Our vision is to invigorate a new generation of rural African youth to become changemakers, dedicated to improving the communities & world they inhabit. We are beginning this journey with a primary school that offers a Montessori-style international education, plenty of sport, dance & music, & 20 mi...

22/01/2017

Good morning 🙏

06/01/2017

24/12/2016

Most of the time we talk about kitchen, about flavor, aroma, about delicious cakes ect.
But did you know, that our vanilla is used by LUSH cosmetics. Vanilla has an antibacterial effect on the skin and is naturally rich in vitamins which help your skin to feel more balanced and healthy.

https://uk.lush.com/ingredients/vanilla-absolute-0

Vanilla beans (pods) are the dried unripe fruits of the orchid Vanilla planifolia. Renowned for its beautifully sweet fragrance, vanilla is also soothing and antibacterial when applied to the skin.

11/12/2016

I can't get enough of this graphic. Comments please? T-shirts? Post cards? Giant wall print? Design for the panels of our vanilla factory gates?

This clever play with our logo colours is by the self-styled 'Warholilla': Magda - our talented, Ndali neighbour-from-heaven with a giant heart overbrimming with creativity; despite owning and running the fabulous Papaya Lake Lodge she's been an unstoppable compulsive volunteer for Ndali Vanilla and Sadhguru Schools this past 12 months. Now I've really embarrassed her: but too bad; I'm in awe of what the right passion can achieve.

04/12/2016

from blanching to woollen blanket 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

01/12/2016

Check out our new website - with much more information, pics, ideas, recipes and a blog; webshop coming soon...
http://ndali.net/

Buy vanilla from Ndali Vanilla. We produce exquisite quality Fairtrade vanilla extract, vanilla powder and vanilla pods.

22/10/2016

Spot of Polish anyone? Here we are in Beata Lewandowska-Kaftan's beautiful new book on women in Africa

22/10/2016

No stopping this lady. . All three stages of on my admiral's cap.

22/09/2016

... another favourite: notice that for our ndali vanilla drying racks we're using deliberately planted fig trees (clearly visible in the foreground) which we then keep 'pollarded': we want to leave a beautiful footprint - should vanilla not be sustainable for generations to come, at least we will be leaving behind a forest of singing fig trees, not a barren yard of cement posts or of dead and rotting poles, once upon a time impregnated with chemicals...

...First batch of our July-cured vanilla beans, now slowly sun-drying

22/09/2016

reposting this shot of Ndali's vanilla vines amongst our regenerating forest, because its my favourite...

vanilla vines in ndali's forest photographed by the irresistible Chloe