· Harvest note
The first full indoor harvest
Six rooms, three flowering cycles, and the first evidence that corms can be made to flower on our schedule rather than the calendar's.
Saffron flowers for a few weeks in autumn. In a field that is the whole year’s income in a fortnight, and every risk — rain, heat, labour — lands in that fortnight too.
The first thing we set out to prove was that the flowering window could be moved. In 2024 we ran six rooms through three staggered cycles. All three flowered. Yield per corm was within the range reported for good field years; what was new was the spread between rooms, which was small enough to plan around.
That is the foundation of everything we are building: not more saffron, but saffron that arrives when a buyer expects it, at the grade they contracted.