What is Graamam???
A story of transformation
See the change for yourself.
Graamam.in, an initiative of ProtoVillage, is the market place of the products produced by the rural women entrepreneurs trained at ProtoVillage. These women entrepreneurs are committed to making their families and communities resilient by bringing health and happiness to your home.
Graamam food products go to marquee hotels such as Hilton and Marriot. In fact, the women are regularly invited to Hilton (Bangalore) to prepare a 5-course lunch in the Hilton Kitchens using Graamam products for the guests in the restaurants at Hilton. We gratefully acknowledge this association as a testimony to the skill of the women and quality of their products.
What makes Graamam products Unique?
The convenience you enjoy with the Graamam products holds up your beliefs in sustainability and your aspirations of conscious consumption. We do the heavy lifting to make conscious convenience possible for you.
Here’s how:
Fast Served, Slow Crafted :: Fast + Slow = FLOW
The core philosophy that shapes our entire product development and production systems design process is called FLOW® - It’s that space where Fast and Slow co-exist.
At Graamam, every product we make is a journey that bridges generations. We seek out, identify and adapt the time-honoured indigenous recipes, into modern versions that suit your fast-paced routine, contemporary needs, and modern tastes—all while strictly retaining their original, rich nutritive value.
We use absolutely no machinery in our production. Everything is 100% handmade by skilled artisans. Instead of relying on automated factories, we carefully design human-led workflow systems for each product, that efficiently organize traditional hand-crafting methods.
While machines use high heat and high friction that strip away vital nutrients and natural flavors, our artisanal process preserves the life and integrity of every ingredient.
Our Slow Crafted products honour the human-energy driven, and machine-free rhythms of traditional handcrafting methods to bring the absolute best of heritage value straight into your modern life in the form of products that can be Fast Served.
Fast Served, Slow Crafted :: Fast + Slow = FLOW
With a majority products currently in the Food category, we recently launched Handcrafted eco-printed silk stoles (under the brand name Awear – Conscious wear). We will soon have an amazing array of world class products across Personal care and Home care besides an ever expanding range in Food and Handcrafted textiles.
FLOW: Conscious Convenience
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Fast to Use. Slow to Make.
We blend the values of SLOW (rooted in traditional wisdom, crafted with care) with the values of FAST (convenient, quick to use).
Graamam products are:
Slow to Make: Handcrafted by rural women with care for ecosystems.
Fast to Use: Designed to fit seamlessly into your fast-paced daily routine.
The Zygote Inspiration
Our logo is inspired by a zygote - the single cell with the intelligence to transform into a whole being. Just like a zygote, the Graamam blueprint adapts to its environment. It is an "operating system" that can be replicated across regions while remaining deeply contextual to each place's resources.
Rooted in ProtoVillage
ProtoVillage is a prototype of a resilient rural community
A community in which the inhabitants practice harmonious interdependence, employ ecologically sustainable means to achieve self-reliance over 9 basic needs:
Food & Water security, Shelter, Clothing, Healthcare, Energy, Connectivity, Disaster management, Education and Economy. ProtoVillage is a living laboratory where, systemic solutions for rural resilience are collaboratively developed and iteratively refined and validated through lived experience.
Graamam is not just a brand. It is an operating system - one that can be replicated across bio-regions while remaining deeply contextual to each place.
The Ecosystem
