16/10/2025
Locals supporting locals 🫶
🌿🌸 Local Goodness Spotlight: Wild Vanilla 🌸🌿
What started with a single vanilla vine climbing up an avocado tree in their father’s backyard has grown into a true family-run rainforest farm producing premium Australian vanilla.
Nestled in the Atherton Rainforest, Wild Vanilla integrates their vines with the natural forest environment, using organic mulch from the trees and hand-pollinating every flower. With no natural pollinators in Australia, each vanilla pod is a true labour of love, carefully hand-pollinated within a five-hour window.
🌱 After 40 weeks on the vine, the pods are harvested, graded, and cured through a carefully refined process that brings out their signature flavour: rich and velvety vanilla with undertones of raisin and chocolate.
Beyond their own vines, Wild Vanilla also partners with other Australian growers, offering coaching, support, and market reliability to help build a stronger local vanilla industry.
This is vanilla with a story, one of patience, resilience, and family passion. 💛
🛒 Experience Wild Vanilla at Tablelands to Tabletop, 41 Strattmann Street, Mareeba. Open Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 5:30pm.
🚚 Or order online for home & workplace delivery: http://www.tablelandstotabletop.com.au
