[ Western Ghats · Kerala ]

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Small-batch spices, herbs and ayurvedics, hand-harvested in the hill country of Kerala and packed close to source.

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Malabar Black Pepperകുരുമുളക്✦Green Cardamom 8 mmഏലക്ക✦High-Curcumin Turmericമഞ്ഞൾ✦True Cinnamon Quillsകറുവപ്പട്ട✦Malabar Clovesഗ്രാമ്പൂ✦Nutmeg & Maceജാതിക്ക✦Star Aniseതക്കോലം✦Shade-Dried Curry Leavesകറിവേപ്പില✦Krishna Tulsiതുളസി✦Moringa Leaf Powderമുരിങ്ങയില✦Ashwagandha Rootഅമുക്കുരം✦Brahmiബ്രഹ്മി✦

Field report · 22 Aug 2026

HARVEST INTELLIGENCE

What the hills are doing right now — read from the estates we pack from.

Idukki900 m

26°

RH 74%

no rain

Live · estate weather

Vandanmedu1100 m

23°

RH 76%

rain 0.1 mm

Live · estate weather

Wayanad800 m

25°

RH 79%

rain 0.1 mm

Live · estate weather

Crop	Season	On the vines now
Black Pepper കുരുമുളക്	JFMAMJJASOND	Spikes set, berries filling in the monsoon rain
Cardamom ഏലക്ക	JFMAMJJASOND	Capsules swelling — first picking rounds near
Turmeric മഞ്ഞൾ	JFMAMJJASOND	Rhizomes bulking underground since the June planting
Nutmeg & Mace ജാതിക്ക	JFMAMJJASOND	Fruits splitting — harvest on, mace coming in scarlet
Cloves ഗ്രാമ്പൂ	JFMAMJJASOND	Buds forming; trees resting through the rains
Cinnamon കറുവപ്പട്ട	JFMAMJJASOND	Monsoon sap flow — bark peeling in progress

Rain eases in stretches. First cardamom picking rounds at Vandanmedu.

This season's picks

FROM THE SHELF

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Malabar Black Pepper

കുരുമുളക്

The berry that sent ships around the Cape.

Idukki, 900 mfrom ₹249

Green Cardamom 8 mm

ഏലക്ക

Bold-count pods from the cardamom hills.

Vandanmedu, 1100 mfrom ₹449

High-Curcumin Turmeric

മഞ്ഞൾ

Deep-ochre fingers, ground the week you order.

Wayanad, 800 mfrom ₹199

True Cinnamon Quills

കറുവപ്പട്ട

Paper-thin bark, rolled by hand.

Nilambur, 400 mfrom ₹299

Shade-Dried Curry Leaves

കറിവേപ്പില

Dried in shade so they stay green.

Palakkad plainsfrom ₹149

Ashwagandha Root

അമുക്കുരം

The classical rasayana root.

Certified organic farmsfrom ₹299

THREE SHELVES

Everything we pack sits on one of three shelves — the harvest decides which.

സുഗന്ധവ്യഞ്ജനങ്ങൾSPICES

Pepper, cardamom and the hill harvest that built the Malabar trade.

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ഔഷധസസ്യങ്ങൾHERBS

Leaf and root, shade-dried whole the week they are picked.

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ആയുർവേദംAYURVEDICS

Single-ingredient preparations from classical Kerala practice.

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A cardamom farmer standing between pepper vines in the misty Western Ghats — Cardamom hills · Idukkiകർഷകൻ

Why small-batch

A SPICE LOSES ITS SOUL THE DAY IT'S GROUND.

Supermarket spice was ground months ago, an ocean away from the vine. Ours is harvested by smallholder farmers in the Western Ghats — most working plots under two acres, walking rows their grandparents planted — dried the same week, and packed to order. What reaches your kitchen still smells like the hillside it came from.

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