Perth’s Araluen Botanic Park has a fine history of bedding in new festival phenomena. 

Back in the early naughties I remember working at the state’s first ever Chilli Festival. 

Organisers had cottoned on to Perth’s growing love of all things spicy, tapping into the zeitgeist and growing the event to what is now one of the year’s most flocked-to food festivals.

Its little wonder then, that equally big things are expected for the latest food trend to be “festival-ised” at Araluen – the Avocado.