Keshmoon is an online platform where saffron farmers working in Qaenat (South Khorasan) have the opportunity to market their saffron for consumers around the world to buy directly from their farms. On our website, you can find stories of the saffron farmers and become acquainted with the details of their personal lives as well as the various stages of farming. Through Keshmoon, you can choose your farmer and buy saffron directly from them.

 

(Saffron Harvesting and Meeting Farmers) Tour

In 2017, Keshmoon hosted a three-day tour to Qaenat to meet the farmers involved in our work and to witness firsthand the harvesting and drying of saffron. Over this one year, there were many people who were just getting familiar with our organization and this provided them with the perfect opportunity to experience our work personally.

This is why we have decided that this year during the harvesting season of saffron, which falls in November, we will hold a saffron tour and travel to the Qaen villages.

This trip will be held in cooperation with the Sepehr Cultural Development Foundation. The Sepehr Cultural Development is a fully-fledged organization that works to empower members of local communities and villages in the Qaen region. Since many of the villages we work in are involved with this organization, we decided to collaborate with this group for the tour.

 

Information regarding Tour

Tour Location: South Khorasan Province, Qaen City, Tajen Village.

Date of Departure: 17:00, Monday 29th of October 2018, From South Tehran Terminal.

Return Date: 17:00, Thursday 1st of November 2018, Qaen Terminal.

The degree of Difficulty of Trip: Medium.

Capacity: Limited.

Travel Cost: 540 USD (includes round trip from Tehran)

Registration Method: Contact Number: +989157409204 (every day from 11:00 to 13:00 and also from 19:00 to 21:00)

Registration Deadline: Thursday 25th of October 2018 

Necessary Supplies: ID cards, personal medications, warm clothes, comfortable shoes, sunscreen, hats, and sunglasses.

Tour Program: attend a saffron farm and engage in the harvesting of saffron, pick saffron flowers with the farmer and extract saffron from the flowers with the farmers themselves, stay in rural homes with locals, eat local cuisine, visit Tajen village, see live folk music

 

Reviews on Saffron Harvesting Tour from 2016

 

During the Saffron Harvest season of 2016, we hosted the first guests to Keshmoon farms. Below you will find the reviews of two foreigners who visited our farm to get a better understanding of the experience on our tour.

Rachel, Iranian-French Tourist

I traveled to Qaen from 28th to 29th October 2016 at the harvesting season. I came to write a photo article about Keshmoon and the work of saffron smallholder farmers of Qaen working biologically, but I left with much more.

I lived two extraordinary days with Mo’s family, who opened their doors, their heart and who offered us their trust.

At sunrise, we participated with them in saffron harvest, in a climate of peace and harmony I never experienced.

I left with beautiful pictures but above all with friends, a new family...

 

Betty, French Tourist

Unique and very interesting experience in the land of saffron. 

First, meeting people of a very great kindness: the welcome of Mo's family really warms our hearts.

We discovered a new world, made of work and simplicity, within a beautiful nature. All generations are united in the effort to harvest this red gold! What hard work to produce this spice with perfume like no other in the world! A unique experience for me that left me the will to better know this region and the people who live there.