Last year I came across a stall at my local fruit and vegetable market in NZ. It was selling only vanilla pods - which seemed odd to me as there couldn't be that much demand for vanilla in such a small market.

After talking with the stallholder, he told me that he had come from the Cook Islands on behalf of a government trade delegation hoping to promote their vanilla. Interestingly, nobody there farms it but they have an abundance growing wild - enough that they were hoping to establish an industry.