Chennai's Door 2 door Organics

This outfit has delivered over 30,000 organic farm boxes over a span of four years. It promises 22 varieties of vegetables each week, and has customisable options – add in specialist like seppankellangu (taro root) and palmyra sprouts and even a fruit box option. Prices start at Rs. 500 per week, on d2dorganics.com. At his 25- acre Chiguru farm, Raghavendra bhat has been harvesting karnataka’s sweet, aromatic Badami mangoes for five years. He chose the fruits  because it is a local variety suited to the soil condition, and has a good market value. A ready-to-eat Badami is identified by its skin – a mix of green, yellow and red. 

Bhat planted the saplings 10 years ago, and now organises mango picking festivals ( announced  on the farm’s Facebook page). “It is a curated, day-long farm outing where participants pick the fruit too,” he say. Badami retails for about Rs. 150 a kilo in the market, costs more if it is organic. At the farm, you can get it for Rs. 125 per kg. Details: chigurufarm.com, 09845258575