Your own apple tree, plus nine Pahadi provisions we would otherwise only put on our own table — wild honey, bilona ghee, walnut kernels, apricot oil and the fiery Dalle chilli pickle. Around thirteen and a half kilos.
“Half of what is in this crate cannot be bought in a city at any price. It has to come down the mountain with someone.”
Dev & Remona Rana · Kotgaon, Tons Valley
A tree of your own and nine provisions from Tons Valley. Every retail figure below is the price the same item sells for elsewhere — we have listed them so you can check our arithmetic.
A specific, numbered tree at roughly 7,000 ft — not a share and not a certificate. We fix a wooden nameplate carrying your engraving, photograph it in place, and send you the photograph. From that day it is pruned, manured, irrigated and guarded on your behalf, and filmed for you once a month until harvest.
Hand-churned by the bilona method from Badri cows — Uttarakhand's indigenous hill breed, grazed on open pasture. Roughly thirty litres of A2 milk go into every kilo. Grainy, deep gold, and the single most valuable thing in this crate.
Multiflora honey from hives kept in the village, worked by the bees on whatever is flowering that month — apple blossom, wild mustard, mountain herbs. Raw and unheated, so it will crystallise in winter. That is how you know it is real.
Royal and Golden Delicious from your own tree, hand-graded and packed within twenty-four hours of picking. Never cold-stored, never waxed — the grade that retails at ₹350–400 a kilo in metro premium stores.
Small, thin-skinned red kidney beans from terraced hill fields. They cook faster than plains rajma and break down into a far creamier gravy — no overnight soaking, no pressure-cooker guesswork.
Finger millet, stone-ground in the village rather than heat-milled, so it keeps its earthy flavour. Naturally gluten-free, rich in calcium and iron, and the flour Pahadi households lean on through winter.
The Himalayan cousin of sesame. Dry-roasted and ground with salt, garlic and green chilli, bhanjira makes the chutney that accompanies every Pahadi meal — and it is one of the richest plant sources of omega-3 ALA there is.
Himalayan akhrot, cracked by hand from thin-shelled village trees. Pale, sweet and without the bitterness of the imported hard-shell kind. We shell them for you because doing it yourself takes an evening.
Cold-pressed from the kernels of wild chulu apricots that grow untended along the valley. Light, quick to absorb and traditionally used on skin and hair through the dry mountain winter. A small bottle goes a very long way.
The round red Himalayan chilli, pickled in mustard oil the way it is done in the hills. Genuinely fierce — start with half a spoon. It is the one item in this crate that people either adore immediately or hand to a braver relative.
Thirteen and a half kilos is not a cheap parcel to send from a Himalayan village, and we absorb the whole cost. Dispatched with a tracking number on WhatsApp; metros typically in three to four days, remote pin codes in five to six.
Ten line items, priced at what each one honestly sells for elsewhere.
| Item | Quantity | Retail Value |
|---|---|---|
| Dedicated Apple Tree + Nameplate A season of care · monthly videos |
1 tree | Adoption |
| Badri A2 Cow Ghee Bilona-churned · ₹3,200/kg | 2 kg | ₹6,400 |
| Pahadi Honey Raw multiflora, unheated | 500 ml | ₹1,000 |
| A+ Himalayan Apples From your own tree · ₹300/kg | 5 kg | ₹1,500 |
| Pahadi Rajma Hill-grown red kidney beans · ₹350/kg | 2 kg | ₹700 |
| Ragi Flour Village stone-ground · ₹350/kg | 2 kg | ₹700 |
| Bhanjira (Perilla) Seeds Dry-roasting grade | 250 g | ₹650 |
| Walnut Kernels Hand-shelled Himalayan akhrot | 250 g | ₹500 |
| Wild Apricot Oil Cold-pressed chulu kernel oil | 50 ml | ₹600 |
| Dalle Khursani Pickle Round red chilli in mustard oil | 250 g | ₹500 |
| Pan-India Shipping Tracked, doorstep · absorbed by us | 1 crate | ₹1,500 |
| Total Retail Value of Goods | ₹14,050 |
You Pay
₹14,999
Crate Weight
~13.5 kg
That is the adoption itself — twelve months of tending one specific tree, the engraved nameplate, and the monthly videos. It is the smallest gap of any of our packages: on the Royal Hamper you are paying almost entirely for goods, and the tree comes along with them. That is exactly why we call it the best value we offer, and why most families end up here rather than on the Harvest Box.
One subscription cycle, six moments. This is what the year looks like from the day you adopt.
Adopt · Nameplate goes upYou are here
Adoptions open 1 September. We assign your tree, engrave the nameplate, fix it to the trunk and send you the photograph.
Visit in the snowRetreat only
The Royal Hamper does not include a farm stay. Snow visits run 1 December – 28 February and belong to The Winter Retreat, which is this hamper plus the stay.
Blossom videos on WhatsApp
The slope turns white and pink for about ten days. We film your tree in bloom and send it to you the same week.
Tiny apples appear
Fruit sets, hard and green and no bigger than a marble. We thin the clusters by hand so the ones that remain grow properly.
Harvest begins
Picking runs July into August, tree by tree as each one ripens. Yours is picked, graded and packed within twenty-four hours.
Your hamper arrives home
Around thirteen and a half kilos across ten items, with a tracking number on WhatsApp and a handwritten note from the orchard inside.
Adoptions close 31 March. After that the trees are already committed for the season.
Payment is handled by Razorpay. We never see or store your card details.
The Royal Hamper
Tree + nameplate + 10 items · ~13.5 kg · Shipping & taxes included
50% now, 50% before harvest. Your tree and nameplate are assigned immediately; we send the second-instalment link on WhatsApp in June, before your hamper is packed.
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After payment you'll be taken to WhatsApp to give your nameplate engraving and delivery address.
Want to come and see it yourself? Add the farm stay — The Winter Retreat →
Both give you the same thing at the centre — one dedicated tree, an engraved nameplate and monthly videos. The Harvest Box carries 9 kg of apples and four staples, about ₹8,350 of goods. The Royal Hamper carries 5 kg of apples and nine provisions including double the ghee, wild honey, walnuts, apricot oil and the Dalle pickle — about ₹14,050 of goods. You pay ₹5,000 more and receive roughly ₹5,700 more.
Weight. The crate is already about 13.5 kg, and courier limits and breakage both rise sharply beyond that. Something had to give, and we would rather send you 2 kg of Badri ghee and a bottle of apricot oil you cannot buy in a city than four extra kilos of apples that would sit in your fridge. This is a choice about what travels down the mountain, not about what grows.
Bhanjira is dry-roasted, ground with salt, garlic and green chilli and eaten as chutney with almost anything. Dalle khursani pickle is a fierce round-chilli achaar — half a spoon alongside dal and rice. Apricot oil is not food: it is a skin and hair oil for dry winters. Every hamper goes out with a printed card explaining each item, and you can always ask us on WhatsApp — Remona usually answers with a recipe.
Ghee keeps a year at room temperature in a dry jar and does not need a fridge. Raw honey keeps indefinitely and will crystallise in winter — warm the jar in water, do not microwave it. Rajma and ragi flour are best within six months; keep the flour airtight. Bhanjira and walnut kernels are best within three to four months, or refrigerate them. The pickle keeps a year. Apples are the exception — eat them within two to three weeks, refrigerated.
Yes. For a gift, pay here and then tell us the recipient's name and address on WhatsApp — we engrave the nameplate with their family name and enclose a handwritten note from the orchard at no extra charge. For corporate or bulk orders, message us before paying: above five hampers we work out pricing, staggered delivery and custom nameplates directly with you.
You pay ₹7,500 now and the balance before harvest. Your tree is assigned and the nameplate goes up as soon as the first instalment clears — you do not wait for the second. We send the balance link on WhatsApp in June, before packing begins. If it is not paid by the end of June we hold your adoption and nameplate but cannot dispatch the hamper, so tell us if you need more time. There is no interest and no finance charge; this is simply us splitting the invoice, not a loan.
Still have a question? Reach the farmers →
A tree with your family's name on it, and nine things from the hills that do not reach a city shelf. Adoptions open 1 September and close 31 March.