It began on a rooftop.

Thirty years of quiet care.

For thirty years, my mother has tended a garden on our rooftop in Narsingdi. Butterfly pea climbing the bamboo, red hibiscus by the railing, and a little of everything in between.

Every morning, before the sun gets strong, she walks the vines and picks the flowers that opened overnight. She never used anything she wouldn’t put on her own family’s table.

Velora started there, with a simple wish: to share what her garden gives us with more people.