Our story
From roots to your home.
Why we exist
A pantry, made the old way.
Palm & Pestle exists because the best food isn't made in factories. It's made in courtyards, over slow wood fires, in the hands of farmer families who learned from their grandmothers.
We work directly with those families. Our palm jaggery is boiled the day the sap is collected. Our jaggery powder is stone-ground in small lots. Our hill garlic is hand-harvested from tiny terraced plots high in the hills.
Nothing is bleached. Nothing is sulphured. Nothing artificial ever enters our pouches. What you get is food the way it used to be — honest, whole, and alive with the land it came from.
What we stand for
Four things, held tightly.
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Authenticity
Nothing added. Nothing hidden. Every pouch traceable to the farm and the batch it came from.
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Craftsmanship
Small batches, hand-made — because that is how the flavour and the minerals survive.
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Transparency
Real prices for real work. Real people behind every product. Lab reports on request.
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Sustainability
Plastic-free packaging. Farm-forward sourcing. Long-term relationships with the families who grow for us.
Farm to home
Four steps. No hidden ones.
Traceable from the tree to the pouch. If we can't tell you where it came from, we won't sell it.
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Grown by farmer families
We work directly with three farmer families — palmyra tappers, cane growers and hill garlic keepers. Every one of our products is 100% organic and single-sourced.
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Harvested & pressed within hours
Palm sap and cane juice are pressed within hours of harvest — the only way to keep the aroma, the mineral and the mood of the field alive.
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Slow-boiled the old way
No chemicals, no sulphur, no bleaching, no shortcuts. Shallow iron kadhais over open wood fires, one small batch at a time.
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Packed by hand
Every pouch is filled, sealed and labelled by hand in our small workshop. From roots to your home — exactly as we promise.
By the numbers
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