In 1990, we stumbled upon this opportunity to work with a phenomenal tea garden in Haputale, Sri Lanka. It was an estate in need of love; and was also about the same time that we were determined to return to farming and doing it organically. We were bewildered by how our grandparents lived – very healthy and well. Their lifestyle was simple and Mother Nature provided them in abundance for all of their needs. It was a great sustainable way of life.

Nostalgic having grown up in tea gardens and being a descendent of this people, we set foot on Greenfield in 1990 as a personal odyssey to transform it into a sustainable organic oasis and paint its people with smiles. We suddenly found ourselves part of a huge family and laid out a few principles we would work on.