What we cut on Friday is what you buy on Saturday
Eleven acres off Paud Road. The list goes up on Thursday evening, the gate opens at seven on Saturday, and when a crop is finished it comes off the list rather than being bought in.
On the list this week
Updated Thursday evening. Cut on one tab, stored on the other — and if something is not here it is because it is not ready, not because it is sold out.
Okra
Cut Friday morning. The pods go woody within about three days, which is why none is held back for a Sunday.
Ask at the gate →
Winter greens
Three kinds this fortnight and two will be finished by the end of it. Ask at the gate which is which.
Ask at the gate →Tomatoes
Two varieties, both grown for taste rather than for travelling. They will not last a week and are not meant to.
Ask at the gate →
Coriander and soft herbs
Cut to order at the gate while you wait, because a herb cut on Friday for a Saturday morning is already tired.
Ask at the gate →
Wheat, whole grain
Last season’s, stored on the farm and milled to order at the gate. Ours until it runs out, and then there is none until June.
Reserve some →
Chana dal
Grown here, cleaned here, sold in whatever you bring to put it in. We do not stock bags.
Reserve some →Jaggery
From a press four villages away that we have bought from for nine years. The one thing here we did not grow, and the label says so.
Reserve some →Eleven acres, four people, one gate
We grow about fourteen things across a year and none of them all year. What is on the list is what came out of the ground that week — nothing is bought in from a mandi to fill a gap, which is why the list is short in February and long in November.
The farm, counted
Four things a land record and a market pitch receipt can settle.
Where to find us
Three places, and the gate is the only one where the list is complete.
The gate, Saturday
Seven until eleven, off Paud Road past the Mulshi turning. Everything on the list, and the only place you can have wheat milled.
Aundh market, Wednesday
Six until ten. Roughly half the list — whatever travels well and whatever there is enough of after Saturday.
Baner market, Sunday
Seven until eleven. Greens and whatever is left, which by Sunday is genuinely whatever is left.
Asked at the gate most Saturdays
Four answers, two of which lose us a sale and stay as they are.
Do you deliver?
No. Four of us farm eleven acres and none of us can spend a morning in Pune traffic. If you cannot reach the gate, the Wednesday and Sunday markets are the answer.
Is there a box scheme?
No, and we have tried twice. A box is a promise about produce made a week before it is cut, and both times we ended up buying in to keep it — which is the one thing this farm exists not to do.
Can I reserve something?
Only whole-grain wheat, because it is stored rather than cut. Everything else is first at the gate, and a reservation would just move the queue rather than shorten it.
Why is the list so short in February?
Because that is what February grows here. A farm with a long list in February is a farm with a wholesaler, and there is nothing wrong with that — it is simply not what you are buying from us.
The gate opens at seven on Saturday
Telephone on Friday if you want the wheat milled — it takes twenty minutes and there is usually a queue by nine.
When we are open
The gate, not the markets — those are listed above.