Our saffron - a.k.a. Kesar - is organically grown and hand harvested in Kashmir, India at a 4th generation saffron farm. Each strand of saffron is a dried stigma of the crocus flower and each flower typically has 3 stigmas. It takes about 200,000 stigmas to make a pound of saffron and since each stamen has to be handpicked, it’s no wonder