Kong · Saffron Kashmiri
Kashmiri Saffron — Lab Tested
Mongra-cut stigma threads from the Pampore karewas, batch-checked for crocin, picrocrocin and safranal. 1 g to 50 g.
from₹350₹450
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Est. 1977 · Online 2016
Kong · Doan · Baed · Qahwa · Gucchi Kashmiri for saffron · walnut · almond · tea · morel
We don't just sell Kashmiri products. We farm them.
From the saffron karewas of Pampore and the orchards of Tral in the Pulwama district — saffron, mamra almond kernels, walnut kernels, pecans, pahadi honey, kahwa, gucchi morels, shilajit and Raya Ayurveda skincare. Weighed, sealed and dispatched from the valley, with free delivery across India and no minimum spend.
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Plate No. IIDiscover KASHMIRCART
Saffron is one shelf of this house — not the whole of it. Below, the orchard kernels, the honey, the qahwa, the wellness shelf and the wild harvest sit beside it, each with its own photograph, price and page on kashmircart.in. Prices in rupees, GST included; goods sold by weight show the smallest pack first.
Kong · Saffron Kashmiri
Mongra-cut stigma threads from the Pampore karewas, batch-checked for crocin, picrocrocin and safranal. 1 g to 50 g.
from₹350₹450
Baed · Nuts & Dry Fruits
Short, curved, ridge-skinned kernels — hand-cracked, never bleached, sweeter and oilier than flat commercial almonds.
from₹850
Open the pageDoan · Nuts & Dry Fruits
Akhrot giri from fifty-year-old trees around Tral and Kupwara — pole-harvested each September, cracked by hand.
from₹500
Open the pageNuts & Dry Fruits
A genuine rarity in India — softer than walnut, far sweeter, with a butterscotch note. Seasonal lots only.
from₹720₹875
Pahadi · Honey
Dark, malty, faintly bitter at the finish — unheated and unfiltered, drawn after the wild high-pasture bloom.
from₹850₹1,250
Qahwa · Tea & Qahwa
Green leaf, cardamom, cinnamon and almond crowned with saffron — the cup that greets every guest in the valley.
₹450₹510
Markhor · Shilajit
High-altitude mineral resin, purified without chemical solvents and laboratory-screened for heavy metals before packing.
from₹350₹600
Gucchi · Morels
Wild-foraged Morchella from Himalayan forest floors — honeycombed, hollow, and prized in wazwan kitchens.
from₹1,500₹1,700
Ref. 009Sale
Raya · Skin Care
The house favourite of the Raya Ayurveda line — a herbal face cream built around genuine Kashmiri saffron.
₹380₹500
Skin Care · Oils
Cold-blended facial and scalp oil — crimson threads steeped into a slow herbal infusion.
₹1,699₹2,500
Pantry · Muesli
Honey-roasted oats with valley nuts, dried fruits and seeds — a 500 g pouch of the whole orchard.
₹599₹970
Berries · Wellness
High-valley berries, dried whole — tart, concentrated and grown in thin mountain air.
from₹950₹1,125
Showing 12 of 57 catalogued goods · see the complete harvest list on kashmircart.in
Plate No. IIIThe House Creed
Every catalogue in the world can list Kashmiri goods. Very few stand in the field when the picking begins. The difference is why a tin from this house reads like a farm ledger — the crop, the place, the family — rather than a marketing brief.
Nothing is brokered silently. Nothing is bleached to look brighter, polished to look heavier, or blended to stretch a season's yield. What the page promises is what gets sealed in the tin — and what gets sealed in the tin is what ships. — The KASHMIRCART family · Pampore & Tral
When a line cannot be farmed by us, it is carried honestly — with the grower named where known and the origin stated on the product page. That honesty is the whole position of the house, and it is why the shelves below carry saffron, orchard nuts, honey and Raya Ayurveda skincare with equal weight.
Saffron and certain crops come from fields around Pampore and Tral the family knows first-hand — picking, drying and packing overseen by the house itself.
Orchard nuts, honey, kahwa, gucchi, spices and Raya Ayurveda skincare come from growers, apiarists and makers across the valley worked with for years.
A few lines in the wider catalogue come from trusted suppliers outside Kashmir. They are labelled as such, never dressed as valley produce.
Plate No. IVSonth · Waharat · Harud · Wandah
The valley that fills these shelves runs from the saffron plateaus above Pampore to the walnut orchards of Tral, the paddy flats of Pulwama and the pine forests where the morels come up. One landscape, four seasons, many harvests.
Harud — autumn, in Kashmiri Autumn is the season the house keeps time by. The crocus opens on the karewas in late October, the walnut poles go up in the orchards in September, and the orchard fruit comes down the same week it ships. What you buy in winter was picked in harud.
Pampore's karewa plateaus — the world's highest saffron terroir at roughly 1,600 metres — give the crop its GI-protected identity and its dense crimson thread.
Saffron shelfFifty-year-old walnut trees, rain-fed mamra almond plantings and the pecan lots that arrive only in some seasons — pole-harvested, hand-cracked.
Nuts shelfThe high pastures feed the bees whose honey is never heated or blended; the pine and deodar floors give up the morel in a short spring window.
Morels shelfPlate No. VOur Agricultural Roots
KASHMIRCART was not conceived in a corporate office. It was born in the alluvial soils of Pampore, Pulwama — the saffron capital of Kashmir — where the family has tilled the karewa uplands for generations, living in rhythm with the alpine seasons.
Knowledge that still sets every picking date the house keeps. Three generations have worked these plateaus since.
A private limited company registered with the Registrar of Companies for Jammu & Kashmir — CIN U74994JK2013PTC004004.
Directly to Indian homes — weighed and sealed where it grew, with no broker standing between the field and the door.
Saffron, orchard kernels, pahadi honey, kahwa, gucchi, shilajit and Raya Ayurveda — fifty-seven goods packed in Kashmir and posted across India.
Community Agriculture is the economic backbone of Kashmir, and smallholder growers bear the brunt of climate unpredictability. Coming from a farming family, the house works directly with local growers, family orchards and wild foragers across Pulwama, Budgam, Srinagar and the high-altitude belts — eliminating speculative intermediaries so growers are fairly compensated and consumers pay a reasonable price.
Plate No. VIThe Saffron Chronicles · Kong
Saffron is the house's oldest crop and one shelf of many. Three crimson stigmas to a flower, roughly 150 blossoms to a single gram, forty days of picking from late October into November — the reason saffron is priced by the gram and not the kilo.
Blossoms are lifted at first light before the sun can wilt the flower and bleach the thread. Stigmas are parted from petal the same day, then dried slowly in shade — no heat treatment, no dyes. Batches are checked for crocin (colour), picrocrocin (flavour) and safranal (aroma), the three ISO 3632 parameters, then sealed at origin in UV-blocking, moisture-controlled containers.
Kashmir Saffron is itself a Geographical Indication-registered crop (GI Certificate No. 366), held by the region's produce. Batch results belong to a batch number, not a banner — ask for the record of the lot you received and a member of the family will answer.
Crocus sativus L. · Iridaceae
engraving after the field specimen
Plate No. VIIThe World of Kashmiri Nuts · Doan & Baed
Mamra almonds with their curved ridge shells, soft-shell akhrot you can crack in the palm, pecans, hazelnuts, macadamias, chilgoza pine kernels and the Akbari cashews — the widest shelf in the house, and the one that ships all year.
Baed · With Shell
A premium traditional almond variety with a rich, naturally nutty flavour and satisfying crunch — the shell-on presentation Kashmiri homes prefer.
from₹350
Open the pageDoan · Soft Shell
Grade-A soft-shell akhrot you can crack by hand — thin shell, full golden kernel.
₹720₹975
Nuts & Dry Fruits
Rare Kashmiri hazelnuts — small, rich and round, from orchard plantings in the valley.
from₹1,000
Open the pageNuts & Dry Fruits
Orchard-grade kernels and shelled nuts from the valley belt, weighed and sealed in Kashmir.
from₹1,100
Open the pageChilgoza · Pine Kernels
Chilgoza kernels from high pine forests — buttery, resin-sweet, shelled and ready.
from₹3,000
Open the pageAkbari · Kaju
Orchard-grade kernels and shelled nuts from the valley belt, weighed and sealed in Kashmir.
from₹1,000
Open the pagePistachio · Akbari
Orchard-grade kernels and shelled nuts from the valley belt, weighed and sealed in Kashmir.
from₹625
Open the pageThe Gift Box
The whole orchard in one box — anjeer, mamra, Akbari kaju, kishmish, cranberry and black kishmish.
from₹1,000
Open the pageJuglans regia L. · Juglandaceae | Prunus dulcis (Mill.) · Rosaceae
archive engravings — the walnut and the mamra almond
Plate No. VIIIKashmiri Flavours & Traditions · Qahwa & Nun Chai
In Kashmir, hospitality is poured before it is spoken. A guest is met with qahwa; the kitchen keeps its noon chai; the honey jar sits beside the masala daan; and the wazwan is finished with a thread of kong.
Qahwa — the cup of welcome Green leaf simmered with cardamom and cinnamon, drawn off the boil, then steeped with almond and a crown of saffron. The liquor runs pale gold-green; cardamom leads, almond softens, saffron finishes. Simmer the water with the spices, add the leaf off the boil and steep three minutes — never hard-boil the leaf.
Nun chai — the salt tea of the valley The pink tea, slow-brewed and finished with crushed nuts. Nun is Kashmiri for salt.
Honey — keep it raw Pahadi honey is unheated and unfiltered, so natural crystallisation and pollen traces are normal. Store at room temperature with the lid tight; stand the jar in warm water to reliquefy. Never give honey to infants under twelve months.
the qahwa service | the high-pasture comb
archive engravings for the flavour shelf
Pahadi · Honey
Dark, malty, faintly bitter at the finish — unheated, unfiltered mountain honey drawn after the wild high-pasture bloom.
from₹850₹1,250
Qahwa · Tea
Green leaf, cardamom, cinnamon and almond crowned with saffron — the cup that greets every guest in the valley.
₹450₹510
Pantry · Muesli
Honey-roasted oats with valley nuts, dried fruits and seeds — the orchard and the hive in one pouch.
₹599₹970
Pahadi Lehsun
High-altitude single-clove Himalayan garlic, grown in thin mountain air.
from₹500
Open the pageSpices
Single-origin valley spices, sun-dried and packed in small lots.
from₹450
Open the pageSpices
Single-origin valley spices, sun-dried and ground in small lots.
from₹625
Open the pageSpices
Single-origin valley spices, sun-dried and packed in small lots.
from₹250
Open the pageBerries
High-valley berries, dried whole — tart, concentrated and grown in thin mountain air.
from₹950₹1,125
Also on the flavour shelf8 goods
Tea & Qahwa · Spices · Berries · Dried Fruits · Seeds
Plate No. IXWellness & Natural Care · Raya Ayurveda
Markhor shilajit resin, sea buckthorn berries, saffron and almond oils, attars and the Raya Ayurveda line of small-batch herbal skincare. Traditional goods, honestly described — nothing here is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Markhor · Shilajit
High-altitude Himalayan mineral resin, purified by traditional water filtration without chemical solvents and lab-screened for heavy metals.
from₹350₹600
Raya · Skin Care
A gentle saffron face wash from the Raya Ayurveda line — herbal, small-batch.
₹449₹550
Raya · Bath
Raya Ayurveda botanical skincare built on saffron, almond oil and rose — small-batch and herbal.
₹149₹250
The Luxury · Skin Care
Saffron and finely milled walnut shell — the house exfoliant under The Luxury mark.
₹450₹999
Raya · Skin Care
Raya Ayurveda botanical skincare built on saffron, almond oil and rose — small-batch and herbal.
from₹400
Open the pageAttar & Perfumes
Haya Zaffron — a saffron-led, alcohol-free attar in a 6 ml glass vial.
₹499₹750
Oils
Cold-blended saffron facial and scalp oil — crimson threads steeped into a slow herbal infusion.
₹1,699₹2,500
Berries · Wellness
High-valley berries, dried whole — tart, concentrated and grown in thin mountain air.
from₹950₹1,125
Also on the wellness shelf7 goods
Markhor shilajit is a traditional wellness food, not a medicine, and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Skincare items are for external use only. Nuts are tree-nut allergens; morels must always be cooked; and honey must never be given to infants under twelve months. Shilajit batches are laboratory-screened for heavy metals before they are offered — the claim that matters for a mineral resin is a clean screen, not a slogan.
Plate No. XOther Kashmiri Specialties · Gucchi
Gucchi morels from the forest floor, single-clove pahadi lehsun, basil seeds for the summer sherbet, and the sun-dried orchard fruit — the shelves that make the catalogue a larder rather than a list.
Gucchi — the morel, in Kashmiri Wild-foraged Morchella from Himalayan forest floors in a short spring window. Morels resist cultivation, which is why they remain among the world's costliest mushrooms. Hollow, pitted, sponge-ridged caps with a deep earthy smoke — they drink gravies and give back a forest-floor perfume.
How to cook them Soak thirty minutes in warm water and keep the liquor; rinse the grit from the pits, then slow-cook in pulao, gushtaba broths or cream gravies. Morels must always be cooked — never eaten raw.
Gucchi — Wild Morels All 57 goods
Morchella esculenta s.l. · Morchellaceae | pahadi lehsun
archive engravings — the wild harvest shelf
Whole caps and cut grades, sun-dried at source. Perfectly dry, airtight, dark — dried gucchi keeps a year; re-soak only what you cook.
from ₹1,500High-altitude single-clove garlic from the mountain belts — small, dense and pungent, packed in small lots.
from ₹500Kashmiri pantry seeds, cleaned and packed in small batches — the seed of the valley's summer sherbet.
from ₹275The wider catalogueevery shelf
Plate No. XIFrom Our Land To Your Home
Six movements between the karewa and your kitchen shelf — the same ledger, whether the tin holds saffron threads or walnut halves.
Crocus blossoms are lifted at first light, before the sun can wilt the flower and bleach the thread. Walnut poles go up in September; orchard fruit comes down the same week it ships.
Stigmas are parted from petal by hand the same day — three threads a flower — then dried in shade, slowly, without heat treatment or dyes. Nuts are cracked by hand, never bleached.
Produce is segregated the way a grower keeps his own winter stock: mongra against lacha, light walnut halves against amber quarters, whole kernels against broken.
Saffron batches are checked for crocin, picrocrocin and safranal — the ISO 3632 parameters — and shilajit is screened for heavy metals before packing.
Every order is weighed at packing, then sealed in UV-blocking, moisture-controlled containers. Nothing padded, nothing polished to look heavier, nothing blended.
Parcels leave the valley within 48 hours where stock allows — glass, fragrance and saffron cushioned separately — with tracking shared.
Route of a KASHMIRCART parcel — karewa to kitchen, drawn for this page
Harvest lot and date, drying or processing date, the parameters screened and the laboratory report available on request with your batch number. Ask for the record of what you received — a member of the family will answer.
Plate No. XIIQuality & Authenticity
Genuine sourcing is a discipline, not a banner. What the house verifies, how it verifies it — and, just as carefully, what it does not claim.
Colouring strength (crocin), flavour (picrocrocin) and aroma (safranal) — the three ISO 3632 parameters — checked lot by lot. Results belong to a batch number, and batch reports are available on request.
Markhor shilajit resin is laboratory-screened for heavy metals before it is offered. The one claim that matters for a mineral resin is a clean screen, not a slogan.
UV-blocking, moisture-controlled packing protects volatile oils. Every order is weighed at the packing table in the valley, and the scale reading is what you pay for.
From harvest date on the karewa to final sealing, batches are tracked. Ask for the batch record of what you received and a member of the family will answer.
Nutrition figures quoted for nuts, honey and morels are standard reference values (USDA FoodData Central) describing the food type — never presented as a laboratory result for a specific KASHMIRCART batch.
No product here is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease. Registrations are not presented as government endorsements. Traditional uses are described as tradition, never as medical claims.
Reference composition · per 100 gUSDA standard reference
| Constituent | Mamra almond | Kashmiri walnut | Pahadi honey |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy (kcal) | 579 | 654 | 304 |
| Protein (g) | 21.2 | 15.2 | 0.3 |
| Total fat (g) | 49.9 | 65.2 | 0 |
| Dietary fibre (g) | 12.5 | 6.7 | 0.2 |
| Magnesium (mg) | 270 | 158 | 2 |
Plate No. XIIIOur Heritage & Story
KASHMIRCART is a family-run house from Pampore and Tral in the Pulwama district of Jammu & Kashmir. The same families who pluck the crocus at first light still weigh and seal every packet that leaves the valley.
The house was built to dismantle a broken supply chain — one plagued by adulteration, unethical blending and middleman markups that diluted the reputation of genuine Kashmiri produce. Direct access to authentic, unadulterated Himalayan goods, straight from the soil that nurtured them, is the whole reason it exists.
Today the promise covers fifty-seven goods: saffron, orchard kernels, pahadi honey, kahwa, gucchi, shilajit and Raya Ayurveda — packed in Kashmir and posted across India, with free delivery to every pin code and no minimum spend.
Administrative operations, sourcing hubs and the family's own fields sit in the heart of Kashmir's saffron-growing belt, with growers and makers across Pulwama, Budgam, Srinagar and the high-altitude belts.
Call +91 70061 54418 — questions are answered, parcels are tracked, problems are owned. Bulk and gifting quantities across 5–10 kg packs can be arranged on the same line.
Plate No. XIVPapers of the House
Reference numbers as they appear on the original documents — presented as matters of record, never as endorsements of any product.
The KASHMIRCART trademark is applied for and pending; no registered-trademark claim is made and no ® symbol is used. The ™ symbol denotes use in trade only. MSME ZED, Udyam, FSSAI, ISO and GI registration are distinct matters presented separately above — none constitutes a government endorsement of any product, and details are corrected promptly as registrations are renewed.
Plate No. XVPress & Media
Published coverage and the house's own records, listed with working links. Nothing is reproduced here that has not been published elsewhere first.
A feature on the house's farm-to-home approach — saffron, dry fruits, natural creams and herbal wellness brought straight from the farmers and artisans of Kashmir.
The house's own account of its origins in the alluvial soils of Pampore, Pulwama, its uncompromising standards and its direct-from-farm protocol.
The live WooCommerce catalogue on the store itself, where every product name, pack weight, price and review shown on this page can be checked directly.
Plate No. XVIThe Question Book
The same answers a family member would give you on the phone — on origin, farming, quality, credentials and purchasing.
In Pampore and Tral, in the Pulwama district of Jammu & Kashmir, India (PIN 192121). The family's saffron and certain crops grow on the karewa plateaus there, and every order is weighed, sealed and dispatched from the valley itself.
No — and the house says so plainly. Saffron and certain crops come from family-known fields around Pampore and Tral; nuts, honey, kahwa, gucchi, spices and skincare come from Kashmiri growers, apiarists and makers worked with for years; a few catalogue lines come from trusted suppliers beyond the valley. Each product page states what is known about that specific item.
Genuine Kashmiri saffron is deep maroon-crimson with trumpet-flared stigmas and a strong hay-honey aroma, and it colours warm water gradually golden — never an instant artificial red. Kashmir Saffron is a GI-registered crop (GI Certificate No. 366). KASHMIRCART saffron is mongra-cut and batch-checked for crocin, picrocrocin and safranal, then sealed at origin. For serious verification, batch-level laboratory documentation is more meaningful than a home colour test.
Mamra is a curved, ridge-shelled Kashmiri almond landrace — short and plump, not the flat teardrop of commercial almonds. Rain-fed trees put more oil in the kernel, so it tastes buttery and sweet. Ours are hand-cracked, never bleached and never oil-sprayed for shine.
A high-altitude Himalayan mineral resin (Asphaltum punjabianum), purified by traditional water filtration without chemical solvents and screened in a laboratory for heavy metals before packing. It is a traditional wellness food, not a medicine, and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Prices are taken from the live catalogue at kashmircart.in and are shown in rupees with GST included. Items sold by weight show a "from" price for the smallest pack, and the product page lets you compare pack weights and current prices. Original prices are retained wherever a sale applies.
Yes — delivery is free on every order, anywhere in India, with no minimum spend. Orders are dispatched from Kashmir within 48 hours where stock allows; glass, fragrance and saffron are wrapped and cushioned separately, and tracking is shared once the parcel leaves.
No. Pahadi honey is unheated and unfiltered, so natural crystallisation and pollen traces are normal. Store at room temperature with the lid tight and reliquefy in warm water if it sets. Never give honey to infants under twelve months.
MSME ZED Certification ZED_01112026_1106973; company incorporation CIN U74994JK2013PTC004004; Udyam registration UDYAM-JK-15-0033453; FSSAI food licence 21025472000232; and ISO 9001:2015 certificate IN-GSCERT-2025-11-075, verified against the issuing body's register. The KASHMIRCART trademark is applied for and pending — no registered-trademark claim is made. None of these is a government endorsement of any product.
Yes — many lines scale to 5–10 kg packs on the product pages, and the catalogue includes gift-suited tins of saffron, mixed dry fruits and attars. Call +91 70061 54418 and a family member will arrange quantities.
Plate No. XVIIThe Final Invitation
Kong · Doan · Baed · Qahwa · Nun Chai · Gucchi
Saffron threads, orchard kernels, pahadi honey, the cup of welcome, the wild morel, the wellness shelf and the Raya Ayurveda line — fifty-seven goods from one valley, weighed and sealed where they grew and posted to your door free of charge, anywhere in India.
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KASHMIRCART™ · Pampore & Tral, Jammu & Kashmir, India · family-run since 1977, online since 2016
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