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Our Story

Rooted in
Sri Lanka.

In ancient times, traders sailed to Sri Lanka, then known as "Ceylon", for the same thing. Spice found nowhere else along their routes, in such quality. Today, that spice still grows in the same hills, tended by farming families who've worked this land for generations. You don't have to sail the seas to taste it. We just made it easier to reach. Just an online request away.

What we do

"There's spice, and there's True Ceylon Spice.
We deal in the second one."

You can find spice anywhere. What's harder to find is Cinnamon with next to no coumarin, or Pepper carrying the piperine Sri Lanka is known for. No cheap blends, no shortcuts. This is the real thing. True Ceylon Spice. That's what we do.

Our Story
Sourcing Regions
KandyGalle MataraRatnapura KegalleElla
Quality over Quantity

An Assurance

We spent years in Banking and IT, keeping systems running and holding them to the standard our clients expected, before turning back to something older. A family spice trade that had quietly run along Ceylon's old spice routes for more than a decade. We knew the business from the inside, and we knew exactly what it lacked. Proper records. Real traceability. A supply chain where the farmer sat at the centre instead of the middleman.

We incorporated the business, built the systems it never had, and set one rule that doesn't bend. Pure Ceylon, ethically and sustainably harvested. Nothing else counts. Every year, we visit over 50 farmers in person, walk their gardens, and treat every one of those relationships as family, not supply. Part of every sale goes back to those families, toward their children's education and their own wellbeing, because a supply chain stays healthy only if the people at the start of it do too.

Quality over quantity isn't a slogan here. It's the only way we let ourselves grow. Every order is exactly what the buyer paid for. Nothing blended in, nothing hidden.

That is who we are. Not a trading company. A team that chose to stand at the origin of the supply chain and stay there.

👨‍💼
Chathura Abeysinghe
Founder & Managing Director, North Star Spice · Colombo, Sri Lanka
The People

The Hands Behind
Every Shipment

👨‍💼
Chathura Abeysinghe
Founder & CEO

10 years walking Sri Lanka's spice gardens. Chathura oversees all farmer partnerships and annual harvest quality audits.

Founder
Where We Source

Six Regions.
One Standard.

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Galle & Matara
Cinnamon · Nutmeg · Mace
Galle district alone holds over a third of the country's cinnamon cultivation. The coastal soil and climate here is what the crop is built for.
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Kandy
Pepper · Clove · Cardomom · Vanilla
Sri Lanka's black pepper heartland. Volcanic-influenced soils and high humidity create pepper with exceptional piperine content and bold aroma.
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Matale
Pepper · Clove · Vanilla
Sri Lanka's largest pepper-growing district by area, worked as smallholdings across the mid-country hills.
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Kegalle & Ratnapura
Clove · Vanilla · Cardomom · Pepper
Sabaragamuwa's wet zone, a secondary source for the same crops as the central highlands.
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Nuwara Eliya
Vanilla · Cardamom
Misty highland farms at 1,200m+ altitude. Higher elevation, cooler climate, shade-grown cardamom and vanilla.
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Island of Origin
Every NorthStar Spice product is grown, processed, and exported exclusively from Sri Lanka. No blending. No third-country sourcing. No intermediate traders.
Kandy Matara Kegalle Nuwara Eliya Galle Matale Ratnapura
7
Regions
1,200m
Altitude
50+
Farm Families
Our Commitment

Grown with
Respect

Sustainability isn't a marketing programme at NorthStar Spice - it's the only way our business model makes sense long-term. Healthy farms, fairly paid farmers, and clean land are the foundations of everything we sell.

"We don't just buy spice from farmers.
We invest in the conditions
that make great spice possible"
- Chathura Abeysinghe, Founder
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Ethically Harvested

Every harvest protects the farmer, the soil, and the crop itself. No shortcuts. No exploitation.

✓ Sustainability First
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Full Traceability

Every batch traces back to the farmer who grew it. No blending. No guessing where it came from.

✓ Fair Trade Certified
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Farmer Education Fund

A share of every purchase goes toward the education of our farmers' children.

✓ 150+ scholarships
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Sustainable Packaging

From farm to your door, every step is chosen to respect the product and the planet.

✓ 2028 packaging target
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Lab-Verified Quality

Every claim we make is backed by lab testing, not guesswork. If we can't verify it, we don't say it.

✓ Lab-Verified
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Secured Digital Records

Every certificate and traceability record lives digitally, held to the same discipline a banking system demands. Nothing that can go missing.

✓ Digitally Secured
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the Source?

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