Our growers
A valley, two families, and a number on every pack
Mistharvest is small on purpose. We buy from smallholder families in Thirthahalli, in the Malnad hills of the Western Ghats, and we write down which batch came from whom.
The land of the Pepper Queen
Four centuries ago Rani Chennabhairadevi — remembered as the Pepper Queen — ruled this coast for nearly half a century, and her power was built on the trade of Malnad black pepper prized across the seas.
The same pepper still ripens on the same misted vines. When you cook with it you are tasting a spice with a very long memory.
Nobody in between
Behind every harvest is a family: tending the vines, drying the peppercorns on mats, gathering honey from the forest edge. We buy from them and nobody else — no aggregator, no commodity market, no anonymous lot that arrives already blended.
That is why we can put a batch number on a pack and tell you what it means. A supply chain with a middle in it cannot do that, and most of the food you buy has one.
We would rather list nothing than list something we cannot trace to a batch.
The people
2 growers, not yet named
One family grows the pepper and one gathers the honey. We know which batch came from which, and it is printed on the pack you receive. We do not publish their names here until each of them has told us in writing that we may — a person's name and village on a shop page is their decision, not our marketing.
The batch number is the link in the meantime. Quote it and we will tell you who grew what you are holding.
On the record
Mistharvest, on the record
- Collected in
- Thirthahalli, Shivamogga 577432, Karnataka
- Packed & marketed in
- Bengaluru
- Live batches
- 2, one per harvest
- Growing method
- No Synthetic Pesticides