About Us

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Fruitessence was created by the Yungaburra Raspberry farm, a small family farm on the beautiful Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland, Australia.

We work with nature to grow nutritious and delicious raspberries and other crops including native Atherton raspberries, sugar bananas, blue butterfly pea flowers, dragon fruit and lemon myrtle.

We are passionate about our environment and farming sustainably. Using beneficial insects, biologicals (beneficial fungi and bacteria) and approved organic inputs, we let nature help with pest control. No nasty chemical pesticides or fungicides are used on our crops!  Follow us on Instagram @yungaburra_raspberries to see our farm and how we do it.

Fruitessence was born out of the need for a solution to a problem. The raspberry fruiting cycle occurs over a narrow window of time. The production of fruit peaks in the middle of the cycle and the amount of fruit is often greater than can be supplied to our local markets. Not wanting to be drawn in to the shipping of highly perishable fruit around the country only for it to be shipped back again, we needed a solution.

After much research, we decided to freeze dry our raspberries to preserve their goodness without needing refrigeration, and to reduce their mass so they could be shipped more sensibly to customers further from our farm.

Freeze drying our raspberries helped with the supply and demand issues faced when farming a seasonal, short shelf life crop. Fruitessence was born! 

The quality of the freeze dried produce was amazing, so we began experimenting with freeze drying our other crops including native Atherton raspberries, sugar bananas, blue butterfly pea flowers, dragon fruit and lemon myrtle. 

We purchase mangoes, blueberries, strawberries, pineapples, lychees and some of the natives from other small, local family owned farms from the Atherton Tablelands and North Queensland, Australia.

We pay all our Aussie farmers fairly so that their small family farms remain viable for generations to come.