Millthorpe chocolatier Fiona Harrison from Chocolate on Purpose has won the Indigenous Business of the Year Award at the inaugural Australian Rural Business Awards.
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The awards were founded and hosted by Spend with Us, for small businesses.
Hundreds of people logged on to celebrate and cheer on nominees for the award ceremony.
Ms Harrison is a proud Wiradjuri woman living and operating Chocolate On Purpose on Wiradjuri Country.
"Chocolate On Purpose is Australia's first Indigenous chocolate company, combining premium chocolate with Australian native botanicals to create our 'Bush Food Chocolate range," she said.
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"People would see the sign saying chocolate and they would come over, and when they would see the flavours and their brains would be going 'what's going on?' and they were very interested.
"For the eight years that I was at farmers' markets I was really testing recipes, getting feedback from customers and making sure that I could infuse the flavours and make combinations that really work together."
The awards were run by online marketplace for rural and regional small businesses Spend With Us to celebrate, highlight and recognise the talent that exists in rural and regional Australia.