Fifty years of pressing honestly.
The first press.
Ramesh Patil set up his first cold-press in a shed in Shivpuri with borrowed money and a borrowed machine. He refused to use solvent extraction when every competitor did — not because he was principled, but because he thought it tasted wrong. He was right.
The machine arrives, the shortcuts don't.
After 18 years of hand-pressing, we bought our first electric cold-press. Every competitor upgraded to hexane extraction that year. We upgraded to something that pressed faster while remaining cold. The difference in profit margin was significant. We chose the oil.
Twelve farms. One pledge.
The FeedFresh Farm Partnership began with a handshake agreement with 4 families in Madhya Pradesh. By 2008, we had 12 partners across 6 states, each committing to zero synthetic pesticides and open-book soil testing. We published the pledge publicly. We still follow every word.
Half a million families. Same oil.
The oil in your bottle today is pressed using the same principles Ramesh wrote down in 1974. Cold, slow, honest. We have scaled. The method has not.
Three generations. One method.
Ramesh Patil
Started with borrowed equipment and an unshakeable conviction that cold-pressing was the right way. He still visits the press every morning at 5am.
Anand Patil
Brought the farm partnership programme and the glass bottle initiative. Turned a family business into a national brand without changing the oil.
Kavya Patil
Building the systems to take FeedFresh to a million families while keeping every supplier relationship personal.
Three non-negotiables.
01 · Honest extraction
We press cold. We always have. We always will. There is no version of FeedFresh that uses heat or solvents.
02 · Named farms only
Every product page names the farm, the farmer, and the district. If we can't name it, we don't sell it.
03 · Glass or nothing
Plastic never touches our oil. Return the bottle and receive ₹30 credit. The circle closes.