Satvic Seeds · The Atlas

One range, end to end. We begin where we know it best.

The Indian Himalayan Region runs from Jammu & Kashmir to Tripura — thirteen states and hill regions on one arc. Since 2018 our work has covered one of them, deeply. Select any state for its status; enter Uttarakhand for the valleys — brass points hold accessions, glacier points are natural landrace populations.

The Himalayan arc
Jammu & Kashmir Ladakh Himachal Uttarakhand 11 expeditions · 10 valleys — enter Nepal Sikkim Darjeeling · Kalimpong Bhutan Arunachal Assam · hills Nagaland Meghalaya Manipur Mizoram Tripura

How to read this map. Points mark valleys, never populations. We publish the district and the elevation band; exact collection sites are never public — a rare population with a public pin is a population that is gone in two seasons. Genetics marked Register are supplied only to verified licence holders through the Register; everything marked Catalogue sells openly.

The same range, without the abstraction

Distant snow summits catching first light above a long dark ridgeline.
First lightThe summits come up before the valleys do. From the camps, this is the only clock that matters.
Two forested ridges converging on a narrow valley that opens onto a snowfield at its head.
Where a valley endsEvery point on the map above closes like this. The last fields sit just below the snow, and nothing is sown past them.
A broad snow massif standing above forested slopes, cloud sitting along its tops.
The wall above the treelineWhat makes these crops what they are. A short season, hard light, and cold arriving on a fixed date.

Photographed on the expeditions the map records. A point is a valley we have walked, not a coordinate we are publishing.