Altai Highlands

Siberia, above 3,000m

Wild rhodiola roots, hand-pulled from a thousand-year alpine pharmacopeia.

Sourcing

Three small cooperatives along the Altai range hand-harvest only mature plants between July and early September, leaving every seedling to regenerate. Roots travel within hours to a low-temperature airflow drier on-site, preserving the rosavins and salidroside that long road journeys would oxidise away.

Heritage

Altai healers have called rhodiola 'golden root' for over a thousand years, traded along the Silk Road and reserved for the Tsar's couriers crossing the steppe. Soviet-era research in the 1960s formalised what mountain communities already knew: this is a plant for endurance under hardship.

Journey

From a single harvester's basket on a windswept ridge, the roots are dried, milled, and sealed within 72 hours. They cross the continent by refrigerated freight to our European partner lab, are tested for rosavin standardisation, and only then enter a formula. Every batch is traceable to its harvest cooperative.