Vasava & Tadvi women's SHG
Netrang, Bharuch district, Gujarat
Blended by the Netrang women's herbal SHG from plants grown on their own homestead plots.
Every purchase supports sustainable livelihoods, preserves traditional knowledge and strengthens women-led producer groups in this village. You are not buying a product — you are joining a community.
Tulsi–Lemongrass Herbal Tea (100g)
by Netrang Women's Herbal SHG
A hand-blended tulsi and lemongrass infusion — leaves shade-dried within six hours of picking, so the oils survive.
"We drank this tea all our lives. We only learnt recently that the city would pay for it."
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The story behind this piece
Fourteen women in Netrang used to sell fresh lemongrass by the bundle to a mandi agent for ₹9 a kilo. Dried and blended, the same kilo leaves their village worth more than sixty times that.
The shift was not a machine. It was a shade-drying rack, a weighing scale, and the decision that the packing would happen in the village and not in someone else's warehouse.
Tulsi grows outside almost every door here; nobody had considered it a crop. The first batch was blended in a steel thali on a Tuesday afternoon and sold out at a Bharuch exhibition in two days.
This is Van Arogya — forest wellness, owned by the women who know the plants.
How it's made
- 1Tulsi and lemongrass picked before 8 am, when the oils are highest.
- 2Shade-dried on raised racks for 3 days — never sun-bleached.
- 3Hand-cut, blended in small 5 kg lots, and moisture-checked.
- 4Packed in kraft pouches with an SHG batch number you can trace.
What your purchase changes
- • ₹320 is roughly 8 hours of fair-wage work in the blending unit.
- • Every 20 pouches fund one more shade-drying rack.
- • Keeps a Van Dhan processing unit running between harvest seasons.
