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Fairtrade and organic
We source 90 % our herbs directly from the farming co-operatives we have helped to set up in India and Sri Lanka ensuring the farmers are paid a fair wage (we currently pay 50-200% above market rates for raw materials). We work directly with over 500 families growing Ayurvedic herbs organically for us and plant over 1,000,000 plants and trees per year.
The farmers we work with are often organised into co-operatives. They usually own small plots of land (1-5 acres). There are usually between 10-20 families in a co-operative group. All of the farms we work with have never seen chemicals and many of the farms are in natural forest settings, known as ‘forest gardens’. If you can’t tell your Neem tree from your Amla tree then you may just think that you are walking in the woods!
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