Here at LittlePod, we are wintering in. December has dawned, Christmas is coming, and 2023 is fast approaching its final act. What a year it has been.

It seems hard to believe that 12 months have passed since we all gathered for our Celebration Supper last Christmas (pictured), but we’ve done such a lot during the intervening period that it’s perhaps no great surprise that it has gone in such a flash.

Consider this…

Since that special night last November, packed into Janet and Dave’s dining room, we have built a brand new LittlePod team. Their feet well and truly under the table following their respective arrivals in February, Richard (Operations Manager) and Laura (General Manager) have both proved excellent additions. But that is not all…

Far from it in fact, for in a year like no other, we have also:

• Won the King’s Award for Enterprise (Sustainable Development).
• Visited Made and the vanilla farmers at our collaborative orchard in Indonesia.
• Enjoyed an audience with King Charles at Buckingham Palace.
• Launched a whole host of new products (with more in the pipeline).
• Seen our Campaign for Real Vanilla go from strength to strength overseas (in Japan and Germany, in particular).

There’s more, of course (too much to mention here and now), but be it celebrating International Real Vanilla Day in beautiful Bali, launching our Real Vanilla Gift Set or bringing our new pod packs (featuring Tahitian, Indonesian and Madagascan vanilla) to market, there can be little question that recent weeks and months have been hectic, and that, here at LittlePod HQ, we have never been busier!

The festive season upon us, we are all looking forward to putting our feet up and taking stock this Christmastime, but with three weeks to go, we’re not there yet…

For those with Christmas shopping still to do, a reminder that LittlePod products are the perfect gift for the passionate cook.

Planning to place an order? Please be sure to do it soon!

In doing so, you will be helping to support the vanilla farmers in the Equatorial regions, encouraging them to continue to protect and preserve the tropical forests – the lungs of the Earth that are so important to us all.

There will be so much to celebrate in the coming weeks, but nothing greater than this, the difference that YOU have helped LittlePod to make in 2023.

To the farmers on the Equatorial Belt and to LittlePodders everywhere, we send vanilla hugs, our thanks and best wishes for the festive season…

Christmas is coming. What a year it has been!

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