1,37,264 people
are breathing
easier.Not one of them has heard of us.
They live beside young native forests growing on scraps of land across Delhi NCR — planted by the Million Miyawaki Foundation. One percent of everything Re3U sells goes to them.
Every month · Not a campaignRe3U is made in a small kitchen in Delhi NCR. Some winter mornings you can taste the air before you have opened a window.
We are far too small to fix that. We are not too small to give one percent of everything we sell, every month, whether the month was good or not.
I chose the Million Miyawaki Foundation because they plant the way I formulate — slowly, densely, with only what belongs to this soil, and then they leave it alone to become itself.
Jigisha Chawla
Founder, Re3UThis is one plot, drawn to scale.
Every mark below is one native sapling. There are 600 of them, and they all fit into a rectangle ten metres deep and twenty metres wide — a strip of ground the size of eight parked cars.
That is the whole idea of the Miyawaki method. Planted this close, the saplings compete for light instead of spreading sideways, and the plot closes into real woodland in three years rather than thirty.
- 10×faster than a conventional plantation
- 2–3 yrsuntil it needs no watering at all
- 99%of saplings survive, on their record
- 57plots like this one, so far
Ordinary, forgotten ground
Not parks. The plots go into the land nobody wanted — a strip behind a colony wall in West Delhi, a dumping corner at Gulabi Bagh, an unused verge in Gurgaon. Ground that was carrying rubble the season before.
The Foundation rebuilds the soil first, then plants with whoever turns up: residents, schoolchildren, office teams on a Saturday. Three years later nobody waters it. It simply keeps going.
Drag the handle to see what three seasons do to a plot.
The same method, at a different scale
We did not pick this partnership because trees photograph well. We picked it because the Miyawaki method rests on the three things our formulations rest on. Ours happens in a copper vessel. Theirs happens on half an acre in Gurgaon.
One hundred washes
Shatadhauta Ghrita is ghee washed a hundred times in water, by hand. Nothing is added. The same act, repeated, is what changes the material.
Layer upon layer
Three to five saplings a square metre, four strata planted together. Density is not decoration — it is the thing that makes the canopy close over and hold.
Only what belongs here
Ghee, ubtan grains, oils pressed close to where they grow. We work with what this land already makes, because it is what this climate and this skin understand.
Native species only
Twenty-five species chosen from what grew here before the city did. No imports, no ornamentals — trees that can take a Delhi May without anyone's help.
Slowness is the ingredient
A batch cannot be hurried. The washing takes as long as it takes, which is why we make small quantities and why some things sell out.
Two years of not interfering
Watered and weeded for two or three years, then left alone entirely. Success is the day the forest stops needing anybody.
of every sale, before we pay ourselves
One percent of revenue, not of profit — so it does not wait for a good quarter. One percent is a small number and we would rather say it plainly than dress it up. It is what a small-batch kitchen can promise and never have to pause.
What the Foundation has grown so far
- People living beside a plot1,37,264
- Trees in the ground34,316
- Plots established57
- Green cover added2.6 acres
- Sapling survival rate99%
- Organisations funding it18
Published by the Million Miyawaki Foundation and recorded here in August 2026. Their aim is one million trees in Delhi NCR by 2030, and ten million across India's ten most polluted cities. See their live dashboard →
What we haven't fixed yet
A page like this usually lists only the good news. Here is the rest, so you can hold us to it.
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Our packaging
Glass and cork where we can, but our outer cartons and courier packaging are not yet where we want them. We are testing alternatives and will say so here when they change.
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Delivery emissions
We ship across India through third-party couriers and have little control over how those parcels travel. We have not offset this, and we would rather admit it than round it off.
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Our ingredient trail
We know our main suppliers by name. We do not yet know every farm behind every ingredient. Mapping that is the work of the coming year.
You don't need us in the middle
Buying from Re3U sends one percent along. But the Foundation would rather have your Saturday morning. They plant with volunteers all over Delhi NCR, and they take donations directly.