Peak season
Dried Seabuckthorn Berries and Powder
Nubra Valley · 3,100 m
Wild berries picked after the first frost, sun-dried and milled. Sharp, resinous, absurdly high in vitamin C.
₹690
200 g · berries & powder
Small batch
When a season sells out, it's gone until next year.
Named villages
Every jar carries its village and its elevation.
Fair pay
33% of each sale returns to the growers.
This season
What the valley gave us
Nine things, picked between May and November. Quantities are what the harvest allowed — not what a spreadsheet asked for.
From the valley
Nine weeks of summer, and we make them count.
Our orchards sit above 3,200 metres, where the air is thin and the sun is fierce. Fruit here grows slowly and small — and it tastes like it. Apricots that need no sugar. Berries so sour they make you laugh, then keep you warm all winter.
We dry on wooden racks in open mountain air, the way my grandmother did. Nothing is added. Nothing is rushed. When a batch ends, we tell you it ended.
Villages
Saspol, Alchi, Thimosgang, Hemichukpachan
Elevation
3,200 – 4,200 m
Method
Hand-picked, air-dried, unrefined
The harvest calendar
Seasonal means seasonal. Here's when each thing is picked, and roughly when it runs out.
Crop
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Wild capers
Mountain herbs
Apricots & kernels
Tomatoes
Tea leaf
Seabuckthorn
Shilajit
The cooperative
Local Ladakhi families, one price, agreed before the season starts.
We buy at a rate set with the growers in spring, not haggled at the roadside in autumn. It's slower and it costs more. It's also the only reason the young people in these villages still pick.
33%
of every sale goes back to the grower and the co-op, not to middlemen.
4
valleys we work in — Nubra, Sham, Changthang and Zanskar.
0
additives, preservatives or added sugar in anything we sell.