OUR STORY
LET'S CULTIVTE HOPE ONE SAFFRON TRHEAD AT A TIME
1) Uplifting Afghanistan farmers’ community by paying fair-trade for their saffron and other crops
2) Helping farmers to cultivate saffron instead of poppy, and making a better living for themselves
3) Making authentic Afghanistan saffron & spices accessible to chefs and home-cooks across the country
4) Employing Afghanistan women, and contributing to education projects by giving 5% of our net-income back to education charities.
At Heray Spice, we believe in providing quality products and a quality way of life. By quality of life, we are talking about the lives of our farmers, our customers, and taking care of the mother nature.
Fair Wages For All
A REPLACEMENT FOR POPPY SEEDS
We are committed to empowering women and supporting education in Afghanistan through Heray Education Fund where we contribute 5% of our net-income to Education Charities inside Afghanistan.
At Heray Spice We believe in helping Afghanistan farmers to cultivate saffron instead of poppy, and making a better living for themselves. For Afghanistan soil, weather, and enviroment this is the perfect replacement.
On average after the first year, saffron produces three times better crop value compared to poppy seeds.
It is also our dream to make Afghanistan famous for the beautiful flowers of SAFFRON and NOT the opium & poppy seeds.
Education For All
We are committed to empowering women and supporting education in Afghanistan through Heray Education Fund where we contribute 5% of our net-income to Education Charities inside Afghanistan.
We are partnering with Code To Inspire (CTI) Organization, a highly respected organization that is dedicated to make a positive impact on Afghanistan women and empowerment of young girls through education and writing of code.
Our Values
Our Team
MOHAMMAD SALEHI
ANITA YOUSOFI
SHAHRAM
MOHAMMADI
Nemat
salehi
Ricardo Garcia
Manager
Our Farmers
━━ What Does Heray Mean?
Heray or Heraywa is the ancient name for the current city of Herat. Heray was a famous and important city of Khorasan province during Sasanian dynasty. It was also named as the “Crown of Khorasan”.
We named our company Heray Spice, because 90% of Afghanistan saffron is cultivated in this province, and Heray is our hometown. Our founder Mohammad Salehi grew up in Herat Afghanistan, and I went to Heray High School (A local high school in Herat City of Afghanistan). And that is why we named our compnay as Heray Spice.
━━ What is Heray Spice Cooperative?
Heray Spice is a local business based in Chicago Illinois with a social mission to help farmers with better wages while helping chefs with freshest and highest quality spices from Afghanistan.
We are also a farmers co-operative based in Herat Afghanistan where we bring farmers together to train them on food safety, standard packaging, and safe processing of saffron. To import the highest quality saffron and pay our farmers better wages, Heray farms are owned by local farmers and has partnership to only supply saffron for Heray Spice. Our farmers are being paid based on fair-trade principles.
