Satvic Seeds

The work

The seeds worth keeping are always where the road ends.

Since 2018 we have walked the high valleys of Uttarakhand looking for crops that never entered a catalogue — millets sown unbroken for four generations, grains that ripen in sixty days at two thousand metres, cannabis landraces held in single side-valleys, fruits and herbs that exist in one microclimate and nowhere else on earth. We collect with consent, we grow it out, we return seed, and we publish the record.

Open the Satvic Atlas — the valleys, mapped →

How we hold it

A register that happens to sell, not a shop that tells stories.

Collected with consent

Nothing enters the vault without a record of the household that kept it and an agreement on what they receive when it earns. No consent record, no listing.

Held in trust

Most of what we hold is not for sale and never will be. Duplicates go to the national gene bank. The ratio is the point.

Grown, not warehoused

Every accession is multiplied on guardian plots at its own altitude. A seed that isn't sown every few seasons is a seed you are quietly losing.

The valley, never the plant

We publish the district and the elevation. We never publish coordinates. A rare population with a public pin is a population that is gone in two seasons.

Every seed carries its passport

Photo slot — accession portraitPanicle at dough stage, flat light, plain ground. 4:5 portrait, min 2000px on the short edge.

Conservation RegisterSS·UK·2022·014

Jhangora

Echinochloa frumentacea

Collected from a single terraced holding where it had been sown unbroken for four generations. Sixty-one days to harvest at two thousand metres — the shortest cycle of any barnyard millet we hold.

Collected	September 2022
Region	Munsiyari, Pithoragarh — Uttarakhand
Altitude	2,100 m · south-east aspect
Guardians	Four households, Munsiyari cluster
Germination	88% · lot JH-24-03
Status	Held in trust — not offered

Printed on every packet — satvicseeds.com/p/SSUK2022014

In the field since 2018

Eleven expeditions. Every one of them documented.

Photo slot — expedition XIRidge camp at first light. Wide, human figure small in frame. 4:5, min 2400px.

XIDarma Valley · 3,180 m

Photo slot — expedition XMillet terraces, late afternoon, raking light across the slope. 4:5, min 2400px.

XMunsiyari · 2,104 m

Photo slot — expedition IXHands and seed. Close, shallow, no faces unless consented. 4:5, min 2400px.

IXJaunsar-Bawar · 1,780 m

The register opens first to a small list

Ask to be told when the vault opens

We will write perhaps six times a year — when an expedition is published, when a holding is released, and when seed of something rare is actually in hand. Nothing else.

Himalayan Phytosciences Pvt Ltd · Dehradun, Uttarakhand