About Harvest Ingredients
The Harvest Story
(stockist enquiries are listed below)
The Harvest story began with its founder, Annie Wilson, who at a very young age developed a love for the art of preparing fine foods. She read avidly and collected her favourite exotic recipes, testing these initially on her large family of seven brothers and sisters, and later on her husband and two daughters.
After moving to the Southern Highlands in 1999 Annie finally realized the dream of opening her own establishment. Harvest Ingredients began its life in Cavendish Street, Mittagong, primarily supplying wholesale food ingredients to the food service industry, but also making available to the public a range of international grocery items, a variety of nuts and olives, as well as the mix of herbs and spices necessary to create Asian, Mediterranean and Indian flavours.
The idea for the development of the Harvest Dinner Packs came to Annie from the many clients who asked for help in choosing ingredients for family meals such as curries, or for simple, quick ways to prepare exotic dinner parties. The popularity of Annie’s creations grew through word-of-mouth recommendations by her satisfied customers, and the business expanded rapidly.
In April 2004 Harvest transferred from Mittagong to Robertson, with Annie now mainly focused on developing the Dinner Packs, testing her ideas on customers, friends and family alike. As word spread of the ease and success that people experienced using the Harvest Dinner Packs Annie was encouraged to put all her efforts into creating and supplying a broader range.
By May 2004 Harvey Nichols were importing the Harvest Dinner Packs for sale in London, and various gourmet food stores, both locally based and in Sydney, were placing orders with Annie.
In September 2006 Kate Tucker was employed to handle sales. With the business still expanding and the client base almost doubling Harvest has completed its latest move to a
larger production and manufacturing premises with a professional office space.
Much to everyone’s delight, there has been a return to a showroom with a small retail outlet located in the quiet township of Robertson.
In 2008 Kate became a partner in the business and between them both have managed to distribute more products nationally. In January 2009 Harrods of London placed their first order with Harvest after discovering the Dinner Packs in London and were suitably impressed with the concept. Harvest is now receiving enquiries from Europe for their products which are now selling themselves all over the world.
For Stockists in your area please contact the following distributors:
Sydney Metro
Judes Foods
02 9970 8767
Sydney Metro, South Coast NSW, Southern Highlands & ACT
Flavours Shoalhaven
John 0411 871 607, 02 4423 0169
Northern NSW & Queensland
Gourmet Guru
Llewelyn 0416 473 493, 02 6672 2838
Victoria
Kippa Products
Paul 0400 772 059, 03 9816 3301
For All Other Areas Please contact us direct.
Anne Wilson 02 4885 2811