From the farm,
into your hands.
Six acts, in order, every time. Scroll and the crop travels with you — out of the field, across the yard, through the cleaning line and the laboratory, into a sealed container.
- Acts
- 06
- Origins
- 19
- Lab checks per lot
- 6
- Field to port
- 10 – 21 days
Origin
It starts on somebody's land, in somebody's season.
We buy where the spice is grown, not where it is traded onward. Nineteen regions, each selected because the crop is materially better there than anywhere else.
- Standing relationships with grower groups and farmer producer organisations
- Field visits through the harvest window, not after it
- Lot-level record of village, grower group and harvest date
Selection
A lot is accepted or refused where the grower can still do something about it.
Handpicked at the yard against a written specification. Colour, size, moisture and foreign matter are checked before anything is paid for.
- Physical grading against ASTA / sieve / purity specifications
- Rejection at source rather than reconditioning later
- Retained reference sample from every lot we take
Processing
Everything that is not the spice comes out. Nothing is added.
Cleaning, de-stemming, gravity separation and sortex to the grade the buyer contracted for. Steam sterilisation where the destination requires it.
- Machine cleaning, destoning and gravity separation
- Colour sortex to 99.5% purity where specified
- Steam sterilisation for microbiological limits
Testing
The number on the contract gets proved by somebody who does not work for us.
Third-party laboratory analysis before shipment. Pesticide residue, aflatoxin, microbiological load and the assay that defines the grade.
- Pesticide residue screening against destination MRLs
- Aflatoxin and microbiological testing
- Assay on the defining figure — curcumin, ASTA, piperine, volatile oil
Documentation
Paper is half of what you are buying. It gets checked twice.
Phytosanitary certificate, certificate of origin, laboratory reports and shipping documents issued and cross-checked before the container is sealed.
- Phytosanitary certificate from plant quarantine
- Certificate of origin and commercial documentation
- Full test report pack travelling with the shipment
Shipment
Sealed, photographed, and tracked until it is in your hands.
Consolidated at port, sealed, and tracked to discharge. FCL and LCL, on FOB, CFR or CIF terms.
- FCL and LCL consolidation
- FOB · CFR · CIF terms
- Container photographs and seal number recorded at stuffing
Held together
by people.
The six acts describe what happens to the crop. What holds them together is a person — the same buyer, in the same region, season after season, speaking the language the growers speak. The conversation does not open at harvest with a price and close with a truck. It runs all year, in both directions.
- One named buyer per region — the same face at the yard each season, not a rotating desk
- There before the seed goes in: area and volume are agreed at sowing, so the harvest already has a buyer
- Between harvests the talk keeps running — weather, disease, a price somebody else offered — by phone and WhatsApp
- Disagreements happen at the yard, in the open, where the grower can still act on them
And then it is
simply yours.
A container arrives with a seal number you already have a photograph of, a report pack you have already read, and a grade that matches the one on the contract. Nothing about that should be remarkable. It is only remarkable because so much of this trade does it the other way round.
- 01OriginIt starts on somebody's land, in s…
- 02SelectionA lot is accepted or refused where…
- 03ProcessingEverything that is not the spice c…
- 04TestingThe number on the contract gets pr…
- 05DocumentationPaper is half of what you are buyi…
- 06ShipmentSealed, photographed, and tracked …