The shelf

Made in a home kitchen in Kullu

Everything on this shelf is made in Village Shim, near Dobhi in the Kullu valley of Himachal Pradesh — not a factory address, an actual kitchen with a view of the orchards the fruit comes from. Sonam cooks; the family cuts, fills and packs. The batches are small because there is a limit to how much two people can cut by hand in a morning, and we would rather run out than scale that up.

Pickles, in cold-pressed mustard oil

The garlic and hill-fruit pickles are made the way achar is made at home in the hills: the fruit or bulb is cut by hand, salted, and turned through cold-pressed mustard oil with spices ground for the batch. Then they are left alone. Pickle is not a recipe you finish in an afternoon — it needs weeks for the salt to draw, the oil to settle above the solids, and the spices to stop tasting like separate things. We ship them when that has happened and not before, which is why the delivery estimate is measured in weeks rather than days.

Sea buckthorn, from the cold desert

Sea buckthorn grows wild across the high, dry reaches of the Himalaya, on thorny bushes that fruit in a short autumn window. The berries are small, intensely sour and difficult to pick. We press them into a concentrate with nothing added — no sugar, no colour, no flavouring — and dry the leaves whole for infusion. The nutrition panel on the pulp bottle is printed on the pack and repeated on its product page, so you can read exactly what is in it before you buy.

What you can check

Every pack carries our FSSAI licence number, the net quantity, the full ingredient list and the manufacturing address — and the same details appear on each product page here rather than only on the jar you receive. We are a licensed food business in Himachal Pradesh, not a home seller working informally, and the paperwork is the part of "homemade" that usually goes missing.

Orders are made to order and shipped across India. Prices include GST. If something arrives damaged, write to us and we will make it right. The shipping and returns pages set out exactly how, and our story explains who you are buying from.