Andaz Delhi not too long ago hosted the initially edition of its AnnaMaya Artisan Awards to recognise and celebrate regional artisans and boost their neighborhood outreach. The awards have been constituted to market not just these artisans, but also sustainable living and the Made in India idea. Here, we present the winners.
Umang, Kumaoni
The brand was awarded the AnnaMaya Artisan Award of the Year. Kumaoni and HimKhadya are solutions branded by Mahila Umang Producers Company, which is positioned close to Ranikhet in Uttarakhand. Umang is a neighborhood-owned enterprise founded on the principles of ecology, equity and economics, advertising fair trade for hill farmers. It straight assists in enhancing the high quality of their lives. Umang has organised fruit growers to add worth to fresh farm generate, in particular soft fruits like apricots and plums, by means of production and advertising and marketing of all-natural jams, jellies, pickles and chutneys. These all-natural preserves are hygienically made without having the addition of artificial colours/flavours and marketed beneath the brand name Kumaoni.
Artisan Palate
Artisan Palate won the award for Contribution to Sustainability. All of their artisanal salts are created without having additives or artificial flavours, are one hundred% all-natural and are created with only the greatest components offered. Artisan Palate began with the intention of becoming the initially gourmet sugar and salt firm in India generating healthful generate simply offered.
Crafteria
Crafteria by Priyanka Jain won the award for Contribution to the Environment. The little-scale enterprise was born from a need to make a canvas for all the creativity that the uncomplicated artisans of India have been quietly perfecting for centuries. Crafted employing one hundred% secure and eco-friendly material, the solutions are extensively appreciated by shoppers for their aesthetic styles and splendid finishing. They have a wide array of wooden handicrafts.
Tijara Organic Farms
The award for Contribution to Organic Food and Biodynamic Food was provided to the brand Tijara Organic Farms, which was set up in 2011 by Sneh Yadav, a postgraduate in plant genetics. Yadav wanting to realize the logic behind ancient know-how of farming. The brand claims to be chemical-free of charge. Located in Rajasthan, it is a family members farm run by Yadav and her husband, employing solar power and biogas. It follows the principles of Vedic and biodynamic farming, exactly where they use eco-friendly contemporary technologies. They also assistance the art of clay pottery and the goat-rearing regional neighborhood by taking goat milk from them for generating cheese. Other completed solutions include things like diverse sorts of atta, from diverse grains and millets, pulses, pesto, butters, spices and so on.
Blissbox Foods
The brand was awarded AnnaMaya Artisan Award for Contribution to Wellbeing. Blissbox claims to be an try to make awareness about great wellness and heritage solutions, providing one thing fresh and seasonal to men and women. The brand has curated a mix of herbs and spices referred to as ‘Heal with herbs’-a lovely solution with 13 herbs and spices to assistance men and women achieve immunity and strength. It plans to make awareness about seasonal and healthful choices, and continue with meditation and yoga session as and when vital.
Earthspired
An FMCG brand of social entrepreneurship initiative Mrida, Earthspired won the award for Contribution to Training & Education. Mrida (Sanskrit for ‘soil’) seeks to facilitate sustainable, scalable and holistic improvement at the bottom of the pyramid. It builds market place linkages for little and marginal farmers, supplying a variety of wellness- and wellness-associated solutions to the finish user, when fulfilling the social and environmental bring about. The solution category caters to shoppers who worth clean labels and all-natural healthful solutions. It is sustainably sourced, nutritionally healthful and atmosphere friendly. The FSSAI-authorized solution variety makes use of conventional Indian complete grains-millets and amaranth.
Darima Farms
Darima Farms was awarded AnnaMaya Artisan Award for Contribution to Women’s Empowerment. Established in 2016, it is nestled in the pristine environs of the Kumaon Himalayas. It is a outcome of Saurabh Vinayak and Arvind Chawla’s vision to set up a dairy and cheese-generating unit in the remote and lovely place. Named soon after the village Darima, it is situated at an altitude of 7,000 ft. All its solutions are all-natural and preservative-free of charge.