About

Harvest Wild was created to build a transparent bridge between forest communities and conscious businesses. 

In the forests in Karnataka, tribal communities have been cultivating and harvesting pepper, amla, tamarind, and wild forest produce for generations. Their farming is slow, low-impact, and deeply attuned to the forest ecosystem. Their produce is exceptional. And almost none of it had a name or a story attached to it by the time it reached a buyer.

We started Harvest Wild to change that.

The commodity market is anonymous by design. Forest produce travels through several middlemen before it reaches a business or consumer. Oftentimes, value is extracted at every step, except at the first. The people who grow and harvest have the least leverage. And the result is a familiar one: communities are underpaid, forest land comes under pressure, and buyers have no way to verify the claims made on their packaging.

Harvest Wild is a direct-sourcing operation. We work with womens' collectives to buy at prices agreed transparently, document every lot at origin, and sell directly to businesses and bulk buyers who want something they can stand behind.

About the Soliga Community
The Soliga are among the oldest indigenous communities in South India, with a history in the BR Hills forest landscape that stretches back further than recorded memory. Their relationship with the forest is practical, ecological, and spiritual. Soliga women, in particular, are the backbone of forest produce collection and small-scale cultivation. They know which trees are bearing well, which patches to rest, when to harvest and when to leave. This knowledge is not written down anywhere. It has been passed, generation to generation, in the act of walking through the forest together.

Our sourcing partnerships work specifically with women's self-help groups and producer collectives in the BR Hills landscape. Pricing, volumes, and terms are discussed directly. We do not negotiate down. We ask what a fair price looks like and we pay it.