For more than a decade, Goodness Vanilla has been a name synonymous with the finest of all-natural vanilla in the world. Thanks to the considerate climate of the mystic mountains of Western Ghats and the devoted and hardworking planter community, Goodness Vanilla is one of the most preferred ingredients in cross-country cuisines today. Visit our Goodness Vanilla website: www.goodnessvanilla.com/

The story began around 1996, when the falling prices of rubber, coconut, and coffee forced the desperate South Indian farmers to turn into a more profitable crop. Destiny chose Dr.Mahendran, an ardent farmer hailing from Pollachi, to cultivate a foreign orchid, that no one in the land had grown commercially or successfully before. Cultivating Vanilla, the modest orchid that produces the world's second most expensive spice after saffron, was the start of an earnest and honest effort, called the Indian Vanilla Initiative.