That pound could cost you around $1,500. Above: A field of saffron crocus. Photograph by Shellie via Flickr. Or you can buy about 30 bulbs for less than $20, plant them, and grind your own saffron.

Narrator: Saffron comes from the saffron crocus flower. And each flower has ... 90% of the world's saffron is grown in arid fields in Iran. But harvesting all of that saffron comes at a price.

A 53-year-old man has appeared at court charged with multiple offences including rape and stalking. Paul Green, of Crocus Fields in Saffron Walden, was charged with two counts of rape, two counts of ...

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So just what makes this spice so expensive? Saffron is the red stigma of the Crocus sativus. Each crocus has three small stigmas that have to be picked carefully by hand. This minuscule harvest ...