Organic produce, bought
at the farm gate
across Nigeria
Sesame, hibiscus, ginger and five more lines. Aggregated close to the farms that grow them, cleaned and graded before they leave the state.
See what we supply→
Eight lines, sorted to your spec
Cleaned, dried and bagged for grocers, processors, exporters and kitchens.
See the lines →What we learn on the road, written down
Harvests, herbs and how to use them. Notes from the sourcing desk, minus the sales pitch.
Read the journal →We buy at the farm gate and we say which farm
Most of what we sell comes off smallholder plots in Nigeria's north, where the dry season does the drying for us. We buy from the grower rather than the middle market, which means we know the cluster, the harvest month and how the crop was handled after it came off the field.
We are not certified organic yet. We are working towards it, and until we hold the paper we will not print it on a bag. What we will tell you is exactly where a lot came from and what we did to it.
Farm gate, not open market
We contract with grower clusters ahead of harvest so the price is agreed before the crop is under pressure.
Dried by the season
Northern harvests come off the field into weeks of dry heat. Less mechanical drying, lower moisture, longer hold.
One lot, one record
Each lot carries its cluster, harvest month and moisture reading. Ask for it and we send it.
Paid on collection
Growers are settled when the crop is weighed in, which is the only reason they keep selling to us.
Who we sell to
One box or twenty tonnes. The order size changes what we quote, not how the goods are handled.
Households
Pantry quantities of the same produce, delivered to the door.
Grocers
Case quantities with consistent grade so your shelf looks the same each week.
Distributors
Repeat volume on contract, with lead times we commit to in writing.
Processors
Raw material to a written spec on moisture, purity and sizing.
Kitchens
Small standing orders for restaurants, cafes and juice bars.
From the journal
Read everything→Why the sesame we buy in December tastes different from the March lot
Two extra weeks on the field changes the oil content, and with it the way the seed toasts. This is the reason we quote per lot instead of per crop.
Reading a tea label that hides nothing
What a full ingredient list should tell you, and the three words that mean the opposite.
Hibiscus keeps its colour in the open north
Dry heat and hard sun do work no dehydrator can match. Notes from a Katsina harvest.