Tumbeela Native Bushfoods are growers and marketers of Australia's finest native herbs.Tumbeela is a small but imaginative family business looking for something different, something special, something to make good food even better.

We are located in the Adelaide Hills just minutes from the Nepenthe, The Lane, Bridgewater Mill, Hahndorf Hill and Shaw & Smith Wineries.The historic Hahndorf village is “just around the corner”.

We supply premium hotels, restaurants, innovative cafes and the better bakeries and have a range of delightful native products for use at home.

We welcome tour groups to our farm to walk amongst the lemon myrtle trees, try the tastes of the Australian bush and visit our “cellar door”.

Tumbeela means evergreen or green valley.

We planted our first trees in October 1995 as part of Australia's push to develop a uniquely Australian cuisine for the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

We also knew that if there was to be a native foods industry
then the product needed to be grown under farm conditions.
Early entrepreneurs harvested natural bush lands to produce a flow of native product but clearly this was environmentally unsustainable and of variable quality. Tumbeela recognised this and pioneered much of the early South Australia plantings.

The trees/shrubs are grown under irrigation in a 1.5 hectare environmentally sustainable plantation in Verdun near MtLofty,
in the Adelaide Hills South Australia.

Now, Tumbeela grows, harvests and markets a variety of Australian native shrubs for use in fine cooking including riberries, aniseed myrtle, wattleseed, lemon myrtle and mountain pepper.

Our Group Tours are fascinating, informative and fun; they are welcome all year round by arrangement only.


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