A grower we have not walked is a grower we will not list.
We sign forward contracts at planting, not at harvest. The price floor is set six months ahead. The certification cost — EU Organic, GlobalG.A.P., SMETA, Demeter where it applies — is on our books, not the farm's. The farm keeps the certificate if we ever part. Co-investment, where we do it, is in equipment the farm owns: a sorting line, a hydro-cooler, a chiller for the loading dock. We recover the cost against our margin over a season or two, never against the farm price.
The catalog is the public face of this work. The lots and farms below are the entire list. We add growers slowly and remove them rarely.
Each shipment moves with a lot-level traceability file: harvest record, packhouse log, cold-chain temperature trace, phytosanitary certificate, organic transaction certificate, EU customs entry, and the SMETA audit on the workforce. We send it before the container arrives. We do not wait for the buyer to ask.
Audit carried by Leena. Field block, variety, rotation history, inputs register, pesticide-free declaration.
Hygiene, traceability, social audit. Wages, hours, on-site facilities, workforce composition.
Continuous trace from cold store through reefer transit to EU customs. PDF supplied per lot.
Egyptian phytosanitary at Damietta, Dutch plant-passport inspection at Rotterdam for any propagation material moving north.
Bilingual organic transaction certificate, traceable to EU Commission database, per consignment, per lot.
Per-lot record of farmer payment, audit cost, freight, EU handling, and our margin. Shared with the grower at the season close.
29 farms. The Nile delta heartland of our operation. Festival, Fortuna, Green Globe.
The reclaimed-land block west of Alexandria. Year-round artichoke; winter carrot and beetroot for IQF.
The El-Badawi grove on Lake Timsah. Late-season Keitt mango by air. Fresh-herb beds in Salhia.
The El-Manfalouti family and two cooperatives. Wonderful and Manfalouti variety.
Khalil cooperative, eleven families, 4 200 palms. Demeter-certified.
Hassanein & Sons on the Nile floodplain. Solar-dried calyx and tea blends.
The Ibrahim farm at Lake Qarun. IQF molokhia and herb-bunch production.
Two associated mango groves and the El-Saadany bean farms. Valencia orange winter trial.
Van Rijn Seed Potato (Drenthe), Westland seed houses, Twente irrigation, Eindhoven greenhouse film, Friesland cultures.