Our TeleFood project

Our new project has to do with medicinal herbs. Some we pick growing wild on the edges of our fields or in the woods nearby. Others we cultivate ourselves. Then we dry them and sell them.

Demand for the herbs is high - they are important ingredients used in traditional Sri Lanka ayurvedic medicine. We also sell them to a company that makes natural beauty products. They used to import a lot of their herbs from India, but now we are their only suppliers.

Here I'm picking a herb called dummella, which you can find right along the side of the road this time of year.