Our Origin
The mountains behind the food.
Why Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand's Kumaon and Garhwal hills sit between 4,000 to 8,000 feet — a perfect altitude band where cold nights and mineral-rich glacial soil produce legumes and grains with exceptional density, protein content, and flavour.
For centuries, villages here have grown Chitra Rajma, Lal Rajma, Gahat Dal, and Bhatt ki Dal using traditional rain-fed methods. No chemical fertilizers, no synthetic pesticides — not because of certification pressure, but because the land simply never needed it.
But market economics pushed farmers toward commodity crops and middlemen chains. The result: most of what reaches city shelves is blended, generic, and untraceable. We exist to reverse that.
The Story Behind This
Growing up in Uttarakhand, the food was different. Not gourmet, not artisan — just different. Denser. More flavourful. Slower cooked.
Moving to cities, the rajma tasted flat. The dal had no body. The packets said “premium” but the grain came from everywhere and nowhere. No village, no farmer, no altitude, no story.
ByUttarakhand started from a simple question: What if you could trace where your food actually grew? What if the packet told you the village name, the altitude, the harvest month, the farmer cluster, the water source, and the lab reports?
That question became a brand.
The Geography
4,000–6,000 ft
Lower Kumaon
Rajma varieties, local millets
6,000–7,500 ft
Upper Kumaon
Chitra Rajma, Gahat Dal
7,500–8,500 ft
High Garhwal
Bhatt ki Dal, Red Rajma
How We Work with Farmers
We work directly with village-level farmer clusters — not individual middlemen. A cluster is typically 8–15 families farming adjacent terraced fields in the same micro-climate.
We procure directly after harvest, paying above mandi rates. Every batch is tagged to its specific cluster and village. No aggregation, no blending between regions.
This means the Chitra Rajma in your packet came from one village, one harvest, one cluster. That's the traceability we offer, and it starts with how we buy.
What We Don't Do
We don't blend grains from multiple regions.
We don't use the word 'organic' without proof.
We don't buy from mandis or wholesale aggregators.
We don't polish or process grains to look uniform.
We don't hide behind generic marketing imagery.
We don't skip lab testing for any batch.