Has anyone here ever kept bees, raised vanilla orchids, morel mushrooms or saffron?

I’ve been thinking about planting some vanilla planifolia and getting a colony of melipona bees to go with them. I’m also thinking about saffron and morels. I like the blue saffron flowers. All are tricky.

Any experience with any type of bee, vanilla, orchids, saffron or mushroom will do.