माटी संगठन - GI-टैग राजमा, जड़ी-बूटियाँ व हाथ-बुने शिल्प

Munsiari sits at 7,500 feet, facing the five peaks of Panchachuli. Its rajma is famous enough to carry a GI tag: small, sweet, creamy beans that grow the way they do only because of that exact soil and cold.

Maati Sangthan is the collective through which the growers themselves sell: subsistence farmers and primary producers, organised on fair trade and solidarity rather than middlemen. Alongside the rajma come buckwheat, caraway, wild chives and high-altitude herbs. And from the looms come thulmas, the thick handwoven woolen shawls that get Kumaoni households through winter, and carpets to match.

To order from Maati is to deal with the mountain directly.