The JOURNEY
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Embarking our journey of growth
"Every great business started from a wild dream"
- Joshua Soo
Where it all began
The roots of our foundation
Australian Vanilla Plantations was incorporated in 2016, however the idea was born from the seeds of curiosity. A simply dinner conversation in 2013 lead to a question of 'why can't we grow vanilla in Australia'?.
In 2015 I was introduced to a remarkable lady who had done research into vanilla growing and successfully grew vanilla in Sydney. She proved that vanilla could be be grown in sub-tropical regions given the right environment and conditions.
To grow vanilla commercially and transition research into a commercial concern a number of key questions need to be resolved.
These questions include; how to create a greenhouse that was low cost, low maintain, easy to construct that was small enough to put on a variety of different properties.
An insight into us
Why agriculture?
Agriculture is a keystone industry, whilst also having been existed for thousands of years. However, over recent years we have started to see climate change having negative impacts such as the price of vanilla increasing.
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While greenhouses (controlled environmental agriculture) came out roughly 40 - 50 years ago and is a solution to combat the rising climate change, they are ultimately not efficient, in a sense that they are still relatively expensive. This is largely due to the high maintenance and operation costs to run such large and corporate scaled greenhouses.
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Therefore the whole fundamental premise of AVP was to create micro greenhouses that are efficient and simple to operate, keeping to our principle of "keep it simple stupid" - KISS whereby we aim to take big ideas and bring it down to something that's real, effective, simple and light.